Watching it now and really enjoying it. Only thing wrong is OJ should definitely be played by a bigger, more physically imposing actor
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Watching it now and really enjoying it. Only thing wrong is OJ should definitely be played by a bigger, more physically imposing actor
Surely the defence changing OJ's house to give the jury a different impression is dubious if not dodgy?
Good follow up here on the iplayer. A doc on OJ Simpson called "OJ: Made In America". Fascinating and goes earlier into the OJ / L.A / civil rights context.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...america-part-1
Can confirm this is also a very good watch, downloaded and watched them last week. If I'm not mistaken the series is by the same guys who do the brilliant ESPN 30 for 30 documentaries.Originally Posted by Blue in the Face
It also gives a great deal of insight into what happened after the famous trial, how the civil trial went, how the "book launch" went and how OJ was eventually brought to justice.
I understand Simpson is actually due for parole this year.
Didn't this win an Oscar? I felt what this added more both before the marriage to Nicole and after the trial. Also has comments from two of the jurors and one witness who I had not heard from before.
Think you will get a lot from this doc on boxer Jack Johnson Colonel. (My favourite sports doc ever)...
Unforgiveable Blackness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBdMrC4rpjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyGfHSX8rm4
Not sure about the Oscar Surge. Agree about what it added. Also feel like I got inside O.J.'s head and weaknesses a bit more.
I discovered this conspiratorial counter theory by a guy who's written a book on the case. He claims OJ was framed by the LAPD and gangsters. His claims are quite compelling!...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtaGAAIBwUs
I checked and it won Best Documentary Feature.
Facts like 77% of white American's believing OJ guilty at the end of the trial and pretty much the reverse for black Americans, or one of the jurors raising his fist and the prosecution only then discovering he was a former black panther, or OJ eventually being sentenced for kidnapping for the quote "nobody leaves this room"
When Making a Murderer and Black Lives matter so current, why aren't people still obsessed with this case?!?
Definitely worthy of the Oscar. I think what makes the doc good is that while the contributing interviewees are partizan, the film gives voices to all perspectives. For the same reason I thought Making of a Murderer was a flawed piece of filmmaking. Maybe even dangerous as I thought it told you what to think. To be super cynical - was this because it gave the filmmakers the best possible story?
To answer your question about Black Lives Matter I would say that the interest would be helped by the massive funding that Co-opted it as well as in being in the year leading up to the election cycle. Feel like a lot of well intentioned people were manipulated on that one.
Back on Simpson - I guess I really am white because I'm about 77% sure he's guilty.
Considering Simpson went on to write an autobiography, including going into detail about the part of his life where he committed double homicide, I'm thinking you could safely up that percentage to 100 now.
Here's Louis CK and Jim Norton on the Opie and Anthony show back in 2007 getting the first transcript of OJ's book and going through the juicy bits: https://youtu.be/n4Ci6CpgpGQ?t=4m
Doesn't work now, but at the time this raised a laugh...
Knock, knock
- Who's there?
O.J.
- O.J. who?
YOU'RE on the jury!
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