#Again

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“The famous slap, where Tibbs retaliates against a racist landowner, wasn’t improvised, though, as has been suggested. I kept telling [Sidney] Poitier that Tibbs was a sophisticated detective, not used to being pushed around. I showed him how to do the slap. ‘Don’t hit him on the ear,’ I said. ‘I want you to really give him a crack on the fatty side of his cheek.’ I told him to practise on me. A black man had never slapped a white man back in an American film. We broke that taboo.

”Young black people in northern cities responded to the film in a much more visceral way than the whites did. This was the first time a black actor was wearing the fancy suit and being looked up to.”

-Director of In the Heat of the Night (1967), Norman Jewison on The Slap Heard Round The World

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One of the BEST. Ever.

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sabertoothwalrus

I found this post I’d made a while ago and decided to animate it:

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this is such a specific emotion that’s unique to the sibling experience and if you don’t have siblings, please understand that this emotion does not contain nearly as much anger or annoyance as it does bafflement, fondness, and too-tired-to-process-this

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yeah he is in fact the youngest I’m glad you could tell

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