Sentences with phrase «violent revolt against»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

John Ford, showcasing his pride of his Irish heritage, made this emotional and realistically violent film about the 1916 Easter Rebellion of Irish patriots revolting against their British rulers.

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.

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.