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Ray
Feb 18, 2005 0:26:57 GMT -5
Post by PhantomsPandora on Feb 18, 2005 0:26:57 GMT -5
Has anyone here seen this movie? I thought it was wonderful, very moving.
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Ray
Feb 18, 2005 9:03:01 GMT -5
Post by Tara on Feb 18, 2005 9:03:01 GMT -5
I haven't seen it yet. It is a documentary about Ray Charles' life right? And how he got into music and succeeded despite his disabilities.
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Ray
Feb 18, 2005 13:10:50 GMT -5
Post by PhantomsPandora on Feb 18, 2005 13:10:50 GMT -5
yeah it is, but it also deals with how he got into drugs and stuff like that, which I was surprised about. It paints a really truthful picture of things, which I'm glad they weren't afraid to show.
Funny how you can see a musician around all of your life and then when he's gone , then you take the time out to learn about him.
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Ray
Feb 18, 2005 15:17:29 GMT -5
Post by Tara on Feb 18, 2005 15:17:29 GMT -5
I think that happens with just about everyone with good talent.
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Ray
Feb 19, 2005 12:47:03 GMT -5
Post by Tara on Feb 19, 2005 12:47:03 GMT -5
This came in my email from beliefnet. Perfect timing. Between the Church & the Honky-tonk Bishop T.D. Jakes explains Ray Charles' music and faith were both products of the spiritual community he came from. [/b] Interview by Rebecca Phillips Beliefnet kicks off our annual Oscars feature with a conversation with megachurch preacher T.D. Jakes about the Best Picture-nominated "Ray." This biopic tells the story of the late musician Ray Charles, tracing his life from his boyhood in the South through his struggles with the childhood death of his brother, racism, blindness, drug abuse, relationships, and ultimately fame. Beliefnet's Rebecca Phillips spoke with Bishop Jakes, the bestselling author and head of the 30,000-member Potter's House church in Dallas, about the spiritual themes and moral struggles in the movie--and in Ray Charles' life.
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Ray
Feb 19, 2005 16:08:01 GMT -5
Post by PhantomsPandora on Feb 19, 2005 16:08:01 GMT -5
We'll be buying this one soon..that is for sure. It seems to be a very popular movie, I went searching for it yesterday to comparison shop a bit and a lot of places just do not have it.
It did kinda surprise me in the beginning about the racism. Sometimes in a lot of movies it's very bold and there(mostly just in movies that protray the civil rights movement), how it was presented this time as if it was everyday life. Ray before he became famous was waiting on a bus ride somewhere and the bus driver noticed his blindness. At first he didn't want to take Ray where he was going, but then Ray lied to him and told him it was a war injury and then the driver's attitude totally changed and he helped him.
As for his struggle with religion, I think a big part of him died when he saw his little brother go like that, it haunts him in every place of the movie until the end when he comes to closure about it. I liked that the movie wasn't afraid to show all these things, in most musicians or people of some celebrity things get glossed over or hidden.
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Ray
Feb 28, 2005 7:32:44 GMT -5
Post by PhantomsPandora on Feb 28, 2005 7:32:44 GMT -5
I've got the movie now, I just love it to bits, heh. And I'm so glad that he won the oscar last night, he had such a touching speech..I didn't know he was from Texas, they've had his family from Terrel on and everything.
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Ray
Feb 28, 2005 9:30:36 GMT -5
Post by Tara on Feb 28, 2005 9:30:36 GMT -5
You mean Jamie Foxx. Yeah, I think he's a good actor. I like his show as well. ("Jamie Foxx Show")
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