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Chiche from cold-war propaganda times
25 February 2005
Even though the film is based on the bestseller with more than 30 million book copies sold worldwide, this does not make the story less tendentious, and standard western cliché with anti-soviet propaganda.

Author of the book, the media who promoted the book, and well as producers of this film, want to make it look like the only good people in the whole story if fascist and Jew, and all the bad people are Russians.

Especially outrageous is that fascist is told to be clueless about all the massacre, tortures, and killing that were done promoted by fascist Germany. Look, it is fully enough to read transcript of every single Riech newspaper, and radio program dated 1933-1945 year to understand that this lame turn is hypocritical attempt to legitimize whole nation, being stuck with fascism ideas -- which openly pronounced that there is superior Arian nation and all the other should be slaves or totally killed -- like Jews, Gypsy, and Russians (after the country did not allow to capture itself in three months as Hitler's Blitzkrig plan promised).

Fascists killed about 30 million of Russians (biggest single-nation genocide ever) -- while themselves lost "only" 12 million. You can imagine how many civilian people they killed, tortured to death, made die of hunger, burn in whole villages.

And with that author of the book and script writers of the film DARE to portray military fascist as someone who was just "oblidges to serve to his country". NO WAY fascist did not hear of Mein Kampf or did not know what he was doing in WWII, letting himself being engaged with war.

(This does not mean, of course, that Russian Gulags are pretty places, and there were only kind, noble and honest people serving.

However, what author/film also did not show is how Russian civilian people were giving bread to fascist prisoners, as they considered themselves to be enough noble to be large-hearted as winners, who freed the world of fascism.)
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Michael Jackson: Black or White (1991 Music Video)
Outstanding masterpiece
7 January 2001
Aggressive ignorance of mass-media and of so-called "critics" will never let them appreciate a deeper-than-plain books, music, cinemas and videos.

In the Black Or White minifilm, short-sighted tabloid-like critics were able to see only "masturbation" (which actually was only in their ill minds) and "violence".

But this video has the deepest symbolism I have seen in a film ever.

It called Black Or White. The whole film is about. It is about good Or bad, light Or darkness, happiness of communication between people Or despair of loneliness, peace Or aggression, nations unity Or rage and so on.

Every frame of the last, Panther, sequence is a symbol. The water, the wind, the dance, the mimic poses symbolize many things.

Absolute quality and art of costumes, light, photography, special effects.

The idea, scenario, choreography, text and music by Michael Jackson.

Denis Raphael Solyahoff, analytic contents provider for MJFCs' SCREAM International Project >
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10/10
Outstanding masterpiece
7 January 2001
Aggressive ignorance of mass-media and of so-called "critics" will never let them appreciate a deeper-than-plain books, music, cinemas and videos.

In the HIStory minifilm, short-sighted tabloid-like critics were able to see only "fascism" (which actually was only in their ill minds) and "self-puffing".

But this video is one of the most symbolic I have ever seen.

It called HIStory. The whole film is about. It is about appeal and prediction of the global win of mankind through the music and joy. "We have erected this monument as the sign of power of music, love and unity of all nations around the world", say the headers, which people carry behind marching Michael Jackson.

Well, critics are not aware of Esperanto, the international language, specially created for easy communication between people of different countries and nations. So they were unable to comprehend the sense of headers inscriptions and completely misunderstood the whole idea of the film.

Absolute quality and art of costumes, light, photography, special effects.

The idea and scenario by Michael Jackson.

Denis Raphael Solyahoff, analytic contents provider for MJFCs' SCREAM International Project
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Michael Jackson choreography/dance genius
7 January 2001
This movie, made in 1985, is good research on dance history.

But it has only a little about Michael Jackson, who was already then acknowledged as choreography/dance genius by many specialists, as well as by artists like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. Now his achievements highly praised by Michael Flattley and Marcel Marceau. Not to mention that everything you see on the TV is influenced by Jackson's choreography.

But what his accomplishments in dance and culture were indeed?

Well, Michael Joseph Jackson, born in 1958, since 1963 became leading singer in his family Jackson 5 group. Already since late 60s, he has choreographed all group performances. Then his choreography was almost a copy from such great artists as James Brown and Jacky Wilson.

But since early 70s, Michael became create his own choreography. In 1974, this generated a dance called *Robot*. Robotic-similar stage movements were first demonstrated during Jackson 5 TV-performance of their hit Dancing Machine.

Millions of kids around America became "robots". It was one of the strongest push of the street dance popularity and which born later "break dance".

In early 80s, Michael came up with a choreography for his Billie Jean song performance from Thriller, the biggest selling album of all time (53 million copies sold worldwide to date). It contained an element, called "popping", or a backwards movement. Initially, it appeared once in the Tx-Bailey film in 50s. But though there was backwards movement too, it was far not similar to Michael Jackson's *Moonwalk* performance in 1983. And then it absolutely had no any impact neither to choreography, nor to street dance, nor to simple film spectators.

Michael Jackson's *Moonwalk* not only made the biggest sensation but also was another the biggest catalyst for break dance culture development.

Since then, Michael greatly developed his choreography and dance genius. In 1995, Michael Jackson presented his *Skywalk*, the greatest choreography-of-movements discovering in past decade. This time it was walk forwards, but in a rusty manner. It was like quickly changing static poses. A mime thing. This could be seen at his HIStory On Films Volume II video.

His latest choreography milestone is the half-hour minifilm Ghosts, premiered on Cannes Film Festival in 1997. It got Bob Fosse Award for the outstanding choreography.

Denis Raphael Solyahoff, analytic contents provider for MJFCs' SCREAM International Project
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