Sentences with phrase «in violent revolts»

Not exact matches

Luther saw both sides to be in the wrong: the peasants suffered widely from injustice, but in the end they did not have the right to resort to violent revolt against the established rulers.

Haitian slave revolts were violent, and Napoleons draconian intervention for restoring order resulted in the Haitians distrusting Europeans and eschewing future trade and investments, imports and exports, immigration and emigration.

Some of the news footage of riots and fires and stuff in the film come from real events of violent revolt against those newcomers in Johannesburg while they were shooting the film there.

That's not to say it's not just as nasty, violent, and revolting... because it most certainly is, and that's inherent in the genre.

Battleship Potemkin Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein Year: 1925 Because of brutal living conditions, the crew of the Prince Potemkin revolts against their cruel officers, igniting a rebellion in Russia and a violent massacre in Odessa.

«Zhang Yimou has strenuously denied that Raise the Red Lantern, itself a violent tale of revolt and repression in the master's house, was a vehicle of political critique... Sex and power, seized and stifled, are the intertwined subjects... The film's tale of tit - for - tat machination among a wealthy man's indentured wives determines its stylistic tussle between expression and restraint...»

From Thelma's buffoonish husband Darryl (Christopher McDonald) to hunky thief J.D. (Brad Pitt) and Louise's greaser boyfriend Jimmy (Michael Madsen), every man in the film is either an untrustworthy smooth operator, a slick romantic with latent violent tendencies, or an abusive monster with a passion for brutality or domination, and it's this kind of clear cut black - and - white world which Scott and screenwriter Callie Khouri's ladies revolt against.

A violent and sudden revolt grips the country of Alordesh (Bangladesh renamed) in fear.