Albert Maysles - LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (93/97)
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2017
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Albert Maysles (1926-2015) was known for his important documentaries on Muhammad Ali, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. He pioneered the documentary style known as Direct Cinema and helped create techniques still used in modern documentary production and in reality TV. [Listeners: Sara Maysles, Rebekah Maysles and Tamara Tracz; date recorded: 2004]
TRANSCRIPT: Well another, another film that we did for HBO was to do a film of a very poor family. This one, my brother having died some bef- years before, I made with Susan Froemke, and there're several moments in that film that are totally unforgettable. There's a moment when the little boy- mind you, now, this is a film of a black family, of an extended black family, very, very poor, in Mississippi, the Delta region; and the little boy, who's a great-grandson of grandma, who's the main character in the film, she's talking to him one day about what he wants to be when he grows up. And, full of smiles, he says- I want to be in jail. Sometimes moments like that really tell it all, y'know? And, of course, the father and, and- none of the, none of the male population is around; they're, they're in jail. So a number of them- perhaps his father, I forget at this moment. There's another moment in the film where the grand-daughter, only 12 years old or so she's sitting at a- with her head down, just outside of the trailer, and grandma comes over to her, to ask her how was the three days that had gone- I'm sorry- three days had just gone by, school had already begun and she hasn't been going to school. And she says- oh, I don't have the paper and pencil that I'm required to have. So grandma has to find paper and pencil, somehow or other, so she can continue school. Well, as it develops, she seems to be the most promising student in the, in the whole family, enough so that there's a good possibility that she may even get into college. But still she's only 13 or 14 at this point, right? And we got news not so long ago; she's pregnant. Which puts an end to her dreams. I mean people- people- millions of people, I dunno, tens of millions of people who've seen that film now, y'know, now they know what they didn't know before. They know what poverty is really like, from having experienced it through people who were experiencing it. That, that's so important in itself. And so we've gotten many calls from people who asked us- what can we do? How can we help? And so there's a Foundation through which they can contribute. And we- and we learn directly how these children, who come from a family of illiterate people, you know, and therefore are ill disposed toward learning much of anything, right, but then they go to a school where even- even if they had better education at home, there was nothing for them to learn because- in the school, because the school's just dedicated to improving their SAT scores. So, to learn how to take an SAT score is not to get an education. All that becomes very clear in the film. - Розваги
Film makers could have at least fixed Lalee’s plumbing . Doesn’t seem like any part of the donations to the unnamed foundation made a difference in her life.
Yes, she let them into their lives and didn’t get any of the foundation money. I’m sure a lot of people donated a lot of things to her. I read that 3 years later she was worse than when they first filmed. She had recovered from a stroke but was thankful that she could still walk. She had a hole in her bathroom ceiling but was thankful it was over the tub. She had roaches in her refrigerator but was thankful it was only small ones that could get in. This little incerpt they just did really upset me. He just sat there and brought up all the negative things. Red man is doing good working in law enforcement and school district is doing better now. They made so much money from this documentary.
And the family got nothing
Yes. This is my favorite HBO special of all time. However, I did read somewhere on the internet that Sandra did eventually become a CNA. I could be misinformed. I did not know that she had a baby. I have 3 UA-cam tabs in my browser and one of them is "Lalee's Kin". I revisit this movie about two or 3 times a year. I don't know why I love this movie so much but one thing I do know is that I am always humbled by this family. I have even Googled Gregory (Redman) as well as other family members. Lalee has passed away but in my heart she still lives.
I love it too!!
I most definitely Love this documentary
Me too it is so sad. I think that our government should be ashamed for not helping those folks come up out of poverty and illiteracy. So sad. LarLee had such a kind heart especially when it came to caring about her offspring.
How can any of you comment "I love it"?? This is not an ABC movie of the week. It's generations of real people suffering through a real tragedy. How dare you be entertained.
Redman is now a Sheriff
I absolutely love the HBO documentary of Lalee's Kin. It's opened my eyes to a world I have never have been exposed to.
Destined4Greatness Agreed! Did you know LaLee died? I often wonder where the children are now
@@Jerseylulu Redman is sheriff deputy, he made it
@@Jerseylulu we're still around.. really haven't been close since she passed away but the family is doing good.. life has it ups and downs but we're coming together as a family.. it shocked us all when Redman became a police officer😁😁
I "heard" that Gregory(Redman) from the film works in Law Enforcement..🙏🏾🙏🏾
So did you help them? I'm sure you profited from the docu?
I don't care for this description, as if it's a movie....sir its real life
So the family didn't get any money from the doc?
nope
I was so moved by Lalee and all that she had to do to keep things going. It is a very poor, I mean poor place where the families live and experience poverty in such a deep way! Are they still there, have they gotten anymore teachers for the children. I saw in the documentary that I have that she would make sandwiches to help buy food. This touched my heart so much and I wanted to know if the State of Mississippi had done more for LaLee's kin, if there is now running water, if the electricity any better? It was doing my Missionary time of life that I really wanted to visit but what would I say?
Anyone know what happened to this family