He did not detract from the story, though. I do feel that his dialect seemed slightly out of place during some moments. Someone said he sounded like he was in "Good Times" at some points. John Amos, whom I really like, seemed to be good and bad for his role. Hollywood seems to want to force their views on society, yet they are often the last to come into line. It was an important role, and our society had not allowed Blacks to come into their own. It is perhaps that during the seventies Hollywood did not want to take such a chance on a younger African-American to play Kizzy. My guess is that Duncan was cast so she would look like an adult child and not seem out of place compared to Uggams. Duncan reminded me of that spoiled brat in Little House on the Prairie. What I didn't like about the movie: Watching Sandy Duncan and Leslie Uggams play teenagers. Upon seeing it I realized that though some of this might be fiction, it certainly rang true. I thought (at the time), A HA! It's bull! Again, remember that I had not watched it. Sometime after this originally came out there was some controversy over Haley faking some of this. I look at the South with fondness, but I know that what this movie portrayed was true - in spirit, if not fact.
I think this movie strove to show the kindness in people, as well as the darkness. I feel that this mini-series realistically blends black history in with the history we have been fed from the Northern side as well as the Southern side. I felt it might be in contradiction with the kind people and relatives I grew up knowing. Throughout the years since this came out, I never really bothered, thinking it would be simply white bashing. I thought this mini-series was one of the top three or four I have ever seen. I am a Southern White, and I have not seen this movie up until the other night.
I normally don't start out this way, but I feel it matters.
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