Happy Birthday Harry Belafonfe. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayHarryBelafonfe #HarryBelafonfe #Birthday #Legend #Legends #TheWorldtheFleshandtheDevil #KansasCity #Bobby #BlacKkKlansman
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The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
Harry Belafonte walks through an empty New York, where power, race, and desire are stripped down to their core. #BlackNewYork #TheWorldTheFleshAndTheDevil
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Ok I knew this film reminded me of Z FOR ZACARIAH (2015). #TheWorldTheFleshandTheDevil #TCMParty
#nowwatching #TheWorldTheFleshandtheDevil A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors. #HarryBelafonte
The only unrealistic thing about #TheWorldTheFleshAndTheDevil is how LONG it takes the worldβs last remaining white man to decide that he needs to kill the worldβs last remaining Black man. #tcmparty
I really love #TheWorldTheFleshandtheDevil #TCMParty I notice something different everytime
Maybe Diahann Carroll is hiding out in a brownstone basement on 116 Street somewhere...
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This janky ending. No one liked this ending, even the skeptics, and the only reason that it is this way is due to the aforementioned executive meddling and the Code. The core tension is also never resolved; Ben could easily regroup.
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Weirdest Lubitsch throuple ever. #TCMParty #TheWorldTheFleshAndTheDevil
This ending feels like a cop-out. Ben has done nothing to merit staying with Ralph and Sarah (not killing Ralph is the absolute minimum he could do as a human being--it's not exactly a glowing testimonial).
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No, no; don't call him back!
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It's a subtle moment, but the birds are back. This is the first time in the film that we see other creatures apart from the human characters. If the pigeons can survive, some other animals are out there.
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When Mel Ferrer first started his career, casting agents thought that he was passing for white (he wasn't; he just has pronounced cheekbones.) Playing the lead in LOST BOUNDARIES (49) about an actual Black family that DID pass further confused things.
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I understand Sarah wanting Ralph to move forward and make up his mind, but he's not being obtuse on purpose.
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No, he's noble because that's how decent people behave.
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Oh, yes, that makes sense. Kill off the other man whom she actually likes in order to make up her mind for her. Horrid.
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I love Sarah's outfit here.
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"He's always doing something to the generators."
Well, Ben--what do you contribute to this group other than racism and sexism?
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One white man is all it takes to bring violent racism back from the nuclear ashes. #TheWorldTheFleshAndTheDevil #tcmparty
I see that W.E.B. Dubois wrote a short story βThe Cometβ about a Black man and white woman as the only survivors of a cosmic calamity in New York. #TheWorldTheFleshAndTheDevil #tcmparty
I never liked that "clocks" line. On the surface it could refer to Ben being older but I've always felt that was a reference to the stereotype of Black people supposedly being late for everything.
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"Why don't you toss a coin?"
Damn right, Sarah.
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No, Mr. Nasty; you do not need to discuss anything of that sort with her. His wife and kids haven't even settled into the dust yet and he's already plotting!
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The phrase "Something in my eyes, waiting to be said" needs to come back into our lexicon.
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Ben is recovering from being at death's door and he's already looking Sarah up and down like she's a piece of meat, trying to figure out where she lives. And he's subtly establishing how he sees Ralph as competition. Mmm-hmm.
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βOh, yes, I remember now, whatβs his name?β You know, the Black guy. #TheWorldTheFleshAndTheDevil #tcmparty
...and now the would-be idyll is interrupted. (Heavy sigh.)
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This is the song that's playing in the background of the dinner scene. It's from Belafonte's "Love Is A Gentle Thing Album."
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