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Mississippi Burning

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Mississippi Burning	label	Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning	page	MississippiBurning
Mississippi Burning	comment	Mississippi Burning is a 1988 film directed by Alan Parker and very loosely based on the investigation of the murders of three civil rights activists in 1964 Mississippi. Two FBI officers (Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe) must work their way through a hotbed of county-wide lies and deceit, with little support from citizens, to solve the murders.
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Mississippi Burning / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Mississippi Burning / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Pell. The entire film, he makes vague threats, insinuations about how he's untouchable, and basically is a rude, obstructive asshat to everyone who comes into town, especially regarding the case of the missing three civil rights activists. Never once, in the entire film, does he ever show a spine. The moment it becomes clear that someone has the guts to stand up to him, and his boss and the Klan isn't around to protect him, he folds in on himself like a paper bag in the rain. To say nothing of the beatdown he gets from Anderson, who made it clear he'd cut his throat with a razor blade if he felt it was necessary. Many of the other Klansmen are also like this. Mayor Tillman also prefers to hang himself than face justice.
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Mississippi Burning / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Mississippi Burning / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: Anderson playfully sings a Klan song while he and Ward drive into Mississippi.
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Mississippi Burning / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Mississippi Burning / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Anderson talks about his own father, who poisoned a black man's mule because he couldn't stand the idea of a black man being better off than him.
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Mississippi Burning / int_1e30fd35	type	Dangerously Close Shave
Mississippi Burning / int_1e30fd35	comment	Dangerously Close Shave: The FBI agent played by Gene Hackman intimidates Clinton Pell - a local deputy sheriff and member of The Klan - who was getting a shave by replacing the barber.
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Mississippi Burning / int_1f4bb5b4	type	Let Me Tell You a Story
Mississippi Burning / int_1f4bb5b4	comment	Let Me Tell You a Story: The Scary Black Man intimidates the kidnapped mayor by telling him a story about the violent castration of a fellow black man by white supremacists. And then he makes moves to perform the same action on the mayor, which gets him to talk.
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Mississippi Burning / int_204340fc	type	Vomiting Cop
Mississippi Burning / int_204340fc	comment	Vomiting Cop: When seeing the buried bodies at the dam, one of the agents steps aside and vomits.
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Mississippi Burning / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
Mississippi Burning / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: The film is set in Mississippi and tackles racism and corrupt hicks.
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Mississippi Burning / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Mississippi Burning / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In public, Pell seems like a reasonable deputy who is just doing his job helping the white and black folks in town. In reality, he's just a hateful, racist Bigot with a Badge who had just participated in the murders of the three Civil Rights workers.
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Mississippi Burning / int_29e294a6	type	Stopped Clock
Mississippi Burning / int_29e294a6	comment	Stopped Clock: Ward mentions in passing that they found a wristwatch in the car which stopped at 12:45.
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Mississippi Burning / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Mississippi Burning / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Apparently Lester lost it during his faux hanging.
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Mississippi Burning / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Mississippi Burning / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: After he talks to the feds, Lester gets attacked by fellow supremacists in shrouds, chased out into the woods, and strung up. The FBI agents arrive just in time, chase off the attackers, and save him, telling him he was lucky he was being monitored. They convince him they won't always get there in the nick of time, and that he'd better testify against the others and receive protection from the government. Of course, the attackers are feds in disguise.
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Mississippi Burning / int_2f3cf3a2	type	Stoic Spectacles
Mississippi Burning / int_2f3cf3a2	comment	Stoic Spectacles: Agent Ward.
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Mississippi Burning / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Mississippi Burning / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: The FBI brings in a professional Scary Black Man to intimidate the corrupt mayor into revealing who committed a hate crime.
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Mississippi Burning / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Mississippi Burning / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Frank Bailey, one of the other Klan members, looks uncomfortable while watching Pell beat his wife.
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Mississippi Burning / int_33576bdb	type	The Sheriff
Mississippi Burning / int_33576bdb	comment	The Sheriff: Jessup County's sheriff does not appreciate FBI interference in his county's affairs, since he's in league with the Klan himself.
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Mississippi Burning / int_39afa76b	type	"Awkward Silence" Entrance
Mississippi Burning / int_39afa76b	comment	"Awkward Silence" Entrance: The town bar goes silent when Ward decides to sit down next to one of the blacks.
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Mississippi Burning / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Mississippi Burning / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Agent Anderson.
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Mississippi Burning / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Mississippi Burning / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Klansmen get arrested...but they are given really minor sentences. Despite her home being trashed, Pell's wife insists on rebuilding her life. And the final shot, a desecrated graveyard, shows that hatred still burns in the state of Mississippi.
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Mississippi Burning / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Mississippi Burning / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: A Klansman (possibly Frank Bailey) shows no remorse in kicking Aaron in his face while threatening to kill him if he talks to the FBI again. And this was when Aaron was praying to God for forgiveness. He kicks him again after finishing threatening him.
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Mississippi Burning / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Mississippi Burning / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The headshot in the opening scene is not shown directly. All we see is the blood splattering on the co-driver's face.
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Mississippi Burning / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Mississippi Burning / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: All of the Klan members, who despite being cocky and dismissive of the FBI, start cracking as the FBI pours on the pressure.
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Mississippi Burning / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Mississippi Burning / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: The oversized and cocky Sheriff Stuckey.
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Mississippi Burning / int_51c28ba3	type	Non-Action Big Bad
Mississippi Burning / int_51c28ba3	comment	Non-Action Big Bad: Clayton Townley is the Grand Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan but he just orders the attacks and murders on the black community without taking part in them. Anderson also lampashades this mentioning that Grand Wizards never get their hands dirty.
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Mississippi Burning / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Mississippi Burning / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie starts and ends with a gospel song.
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Mississippi Burning / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
Mississippi Burning / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Ward warns Anderson to not go after Clinton Pell who just beat the hell out of his wife for ratting out the location of the bodies.
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Mississippi Burning / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Mississippi Burning / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Pell brutally beats his wife when he finds out he helped the FBI.
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Mississippi Burning / int_5a75677c	type	He's Just Hiding
Mississippi Burning / int_5a75677c	comment	He's Just Hiding: In-Universe, the police who helped murder the three civil rights workers fraudulently claim the kids are hiding out somewhere. This was an actual conspiracy theory proposed by many white supremacists including Mississippi's own Senator James Eastland.
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Mississippi Burning / int_5c3206a	type	Ransacked Room
Mississippi Burning / int_5c3206a	comment	Ransacked Room: Pell's house at the end. It is inferred that the "Klan" and their followers trashed her place to tell her she's not welcome anymore after breaking the code of silence.
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Mississippi Burning / int_5cfaad8a	type	Audience Murmurs
Mississippi Burning / int_5cfaad8a	comment	Audience Murmurs: At the Kangaroo Court scene, the audience reacts with loud murmurs to the judge's words.
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Mississippi Burning / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Mississippi Burning / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Several Klansmen are tried for arson in a local court that has no intention of imposing any real punishment for the crime.
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Mississippi Burning / int_659235a4	type	Train Escape
Mississippi Burning / int_659235a4	comment	Train Escape: The two FBI agents are cut off by a train during their pursuit of some Klan members. The delay causes them to arrive late to prevent the mutilation of the black boy in the forest.
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Mississippi Burning / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Mississippi Burning / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The Mayor.
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Mississippi Burning / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Mississippi Burning / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: The white supremacist villains.
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Mississippi Burning / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
Mississippi Burning / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: There is a Kick the Dog moment during the nightly attack on the church members. One of the Klan members kicks the black boy while the latter lies wailing on the ground.
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Mississippi Burning / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Mississippi Burning / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: It seems very unlikely that whites in 1964 Mississippi would sit and eat in the same restaurant with blacks — even allowing for segregated sections. Black folks couldn't come in and sit down and order a meal. The most they could do was to order food for carry-out, and then stand at the end of the lunch counter and wait to receive it. FBI agents as heroes to the Civil Rights Movement. As most historians know, J. Edgar Hoover was no fan of the movement in Real Life and the agency in fact took several notable measures to undermine and sabotage the movement (although individual agents as depicted here, of course, may have had differing views on the situation). On the other hand, the FBI would end up disrupting the Klan and its operations with its COINTELPRO program, but that was something that took place shortly after the murders in Mississippi. Upon its release, Coretta Scott King and the NAACP condemned the film for this reason.
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Mississippi Burning / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Mississippi Burning / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Many of Ward's well-intentioned, by-the-book actions early in the film make the white population of Jessup County feel angry and threatened, which only makes matters worse for the black community. Anderson calls him out on this, to no avail (at least initially).
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Mississippi Burning / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Mississippi Burning / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: After Anderson sings the Klan song to Ward (see Villain Song below), Ward says he's not laughing because he doesn't share Anderson's sense of humor. However, when Anderson tells him a joke a little later: "What has four eyes and can't see? Mississippi.", Ward does laugh at the joke.
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Mississippi Burning / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Mississippi Burning / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Toward the end, once the FBI adopts Anderson's preferred tactics, we get some gray shades into an otherwise overly Black-and-White Morality scheme.
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Mississippi Burning / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Mississippi Burning / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: The Klan appears to be this among the white citizens of Jessup County, although Mrs. Pell probably isn't the only one who doesn't like the violence but is too frightened to speak up.
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Mississippi Burning / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
Mississippi Burning / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Agent Ward, until Mrs. Pell's beating convinces him that playing by the book won't lead to justice.
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Mississippi Burning / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Mississippi Burning / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The crooked mayor (played by R. Lee Ermey) gets this in the form of a black FBI informant who after telling him the story of a teenager who was castrated by a couple of Klansmen, threatens to castrate him if he doesn't talk. Lester Cowans almost is lynched by his fellow Klansmen who think he will talk. It was actually FBI agents disguised as Klansmen in order to scare him into talking.
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Mississippi Burning / int_93a79f72	type	"Miss X" Pun
Mississippi Burning / int_93a79f72	comment	"Miss X" Pun: One of the Federal agents tells the other that Mississippi stood for Miss Is Hippie.
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Mississippi Burning / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Mississippi Burning / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: The two agents have a different approach to their police work which creates friction between them.
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Mississippi Burning / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Mississippi Burning / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Agent Anderson loses his cool after Mrs. Pell, to whom he was attracted, is beaten by The Klan for being an informant.
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Mississippi Burning / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Mississippi Burning / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Sheriff Stuckey manages to be acquitted in Federal Court in the conviction montage at the end of the movie. And none of the others get more than ten years in prison despite committing a triple homicide.
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Mississippi Burning / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Mississippi Burning / int_a8559a9f	comment	FBI agents as heroes to the Civil Rights Movement. As most historians know, J. Edgar Hoover was no fan of the movement in Real Life and the agency in fact took several notable measures to undermine and sabotage the movement (although individual agents as depicted here, of course, may have had differing views on the situation). On the other hand, the FBI would end up disrupting the Klan and its operations with its COINTELPRO program, but that was something that took place shortly after the murders in Mississippi. Upon its release, Coretta Scott King and the NAACP condemned the film for this reason.
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Mississippi Burning / int_a99f4468	type	Bigot with a Badge
Mississippi Burning / int_a99f4468	comment	Bigot with a Badge: Most of the local police force belongs to the Klan and is involved in the murders, as in Real Life.
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Mississippi Burning / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Mississippi Burning / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The film illustrates the Ku Klux Klan-dominated atmosphere of 1960s Mississippi with the antagonists frequently shouting racial slurs and performing cross burnings.
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Mississippi Burning / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Mississippi Burning / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The lovely hymn "When We All Get To Heaven", played over the scenes of yet another vicious Klan attack.
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Mississippi Burning / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Mississippi Burning / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Despite her home being trashed in retribution for testifying against the Klan, Mrs. Pell insists on staying in town, believing there are enough good people in town who know she did the right thing.
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Mississippi Burning / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Mississippi Burning / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Three people were murdered and half the townspeople are in on it.
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Mississippi Burning / int_b08b714c	type	Good Policing, Evil Policing
Mississippi Burning / int_b08b714c	comment	Good Policing, Evil Policing: The local sheriff's department is in bed with The Klan, while the FBI is trying to bring the racist murderers to justice.
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Mississippi Burning / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
Mississippi Burning / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn: Deputy Pell's wife informs on The Klan. She gets beaten up for it, but survives.
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Mississippi Burning / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: How they kidnap the Mayor in his car.
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Mississippi Burning / int_c8c00dc9	comment	Obvious Stunt Double: Once Anderson begins beating Pell in the barber shop, it's clear that it's not Brad Dourif in a lot of the shots of him being thrown about the room; when he gets tossed over a bench, a very obviously balding stunt double has replaced the fully-haired Dourif.
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Mississippi Burning / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: During an attack at a black family's house, the Klan's members also set the barns on fire causing the animals inside to be burned alive. Frank Bailey also mentions that killing black people "wouldn't give it no more thought than wringing a cat's neck" impying that he could also be an animal abuser.
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Mississippi Burning / int_da06866e	type	Old Cop, Young Cop
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Mississippi Burning / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Anderson applies this technique in order to get his suspects to talk. Ward is not fond of this approach as coercion wouldn't hold up in court. But it turns out Anderson only uses the testimonies to play the Klan members against each other.
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Mississippi Burning / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Mississippi Burning / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The film is Inspired byâ€¦ the murder of voting rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman by the Ku Klux Klan. The similarities to the real murder case end there. For example, in the movie they bring in a special black agent who threatens to castrate the mayor to get him to tell where the bodies are located. In reality, it was a case of offering a substantial reward, one which Highway Patrolman Maynard King took up, and informed the FBI of the location of the bodies and the perpetrators.
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Mississippi Burning / int_e60bda	comment	The Klan: Featured prominently as the villains.
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Mississippi Burning / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: Despite the above, Pell's wife insists on staying and rebuilding her life, claiming most people in her town are decent enough to acknowledge she did the right thing. She discusses this in an earlier scene.
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Mississippi Burning / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: The Mississippi police always turns a blind eye on the Klan's terrorist tactics. Some of the officiers are even part of it.
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Mississippi Burning / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
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Mississippi Burning / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Mississippi Burning / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: After just another Klan raid on the black community, Ward is desperate and asks Anderson what he would do. The latter smiles. Cut to the next scene of an arranged meeting with young black boy Aaron who successfully persuades his friend into helping identify the culprits.
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