Franklin finley africanamerican heritage trail. This is our fourth year doing the tours here in mobile. Actually they got started five or six years prior to that when one of our africanamerican city councilman took a trip to boston honesty business. While he was there, he saw a sign that said africanamerican heritage trail. He thought that sounded interesting, because it was kind of a novelty. It was prior to most of the museums we see today and the trails. He took the tour and he enjoyed it. He got to thinking on his way back to mobile mobile was close to 300 years old. And he had heard his family discuss about a lot of the contributions africanamericans had made. He said i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. He started looking around the city for someone that would take on the opportunity or the challenge, just depending on the prospective that they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he finally found a young lady that said i will take on the
Life that i can garner that i can turn on and thats what ive done to the best of my ability one thing ive done which makes me very proud and so i documented the war before you people knew argue with me about vietnam through other sources and when it came to films and pictures it was the pain of the american saying in the in the deer hunter but he do say that he killed people and maybe stopped a rape of demis nels but you came back knowing the lie i just want to skip a lot on a bed to midnight express because the Prison Industrial Complex is something we talk a lot about here on going underground fact we say often that the United States imprisons per capita more people than stalin or mao why was midnight express not just about what happens in turkey if it mr and what happens to be watching to try to make their point unsuccessfully at the turn but when i wrote midnight express years later this was in 1978 i come back from vietnam in 68 late 68 i had been thrown in jail myself for federal
Intelligence project that would make life or death decisions on the battlefield. You can check out our web site for any of this hours headlines coming up next though its. All of a stone as the guest. Sputnik is coming up and kevin and will be here in an hours time to bring you the latest world news updates well see about that. After a time to you know what youre going on the ground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting september the 5th but until then well be showing you some of your favorite shows of this past season stay safe coming up in this episode. On todays show all of us started one of the greatest filmmakers of all time all over. Thanks so much for coming on youre coming on a stand simply for chasing the light to your new memoir tell me 1st of all why that phrase chasing the light m. P. s that means so much in so many different ways so important to your life its good to be back and sure its been a while. I dont know why you said in a sense of we did i ho
Attention was paid to the to the problems of adolescence they continue to this day in america we have a record suicide rate per young people of 1920. Record and may countries i gather that this is a growing problem because theres a lack of Spiritual Life thats what took me to this place of fatalism and i said i want to go to war i want to see what its like at the bottom i dont want any favors and if the gods my destiny. Were intended for me to take me they would take me i would test myself against them and i did i didnt complain when i was there i got wounded twice and i did a lot of fighting i saw a lot of combat. But i i brought it on myself i wasnt whining about it but i felt like i was lucky i survived and if you saw platoon you remember the end of it i found a meaning to my life in that war which is to say i really go on and teach what i know to others good teach goodness and teach experience teach the good things of life that i can garner that i can turn on and thats what ive don
Last shot sometimes is that is death life or death for a film and for me ive been running after that light when when the sun sets in the afternoon Late Afternoon or early evening you dont have any more like to shoot or you have to go to artificial light which is no good for me so im always running to get their list lets say its 4 oclock 6 oclock in the afternoon in the latest fall in i have 3 shots i want to get to finish to see if i dont get them i cant i have to rethink the scene quickly it puts me under maximum pressure the kind of movies i mean there sure were low budget most of them were pretty tight on the budgets always so i didnt have a lot of days to asked it was the opposite of Stanley Kubrick if you want you mentioned life and death because in this book its very apparent that after painting as amazing they were a man take a picture of your parents and theyre meeting in the shadow of world war 2. You literally seem to be almost suicidal in your in his. For it too far to say f