Le Mississippi brûle

Titre original : Mississippi Burning

1988
14A
2h 8m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,8/10

115 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

3 043

Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman in Le Mississippi brûle (1988)

Liretrailer1 min 34 s

3 vidéos

99+ photos

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Deux agents du FBI aux styles très différents arrivent dans l'état du Mississippi pour enquêter sur la disparition de militants pour les droits civiques.Deux agents du FBI aux styles très différents arrivent dans l'état du Mississippi pour enquêter sur la disparition de militants pour les droits civiques.Deux agents du FBI aux styles très différents arrivent dans l'état du Mississippi pour enquêter sur la disparition de militants pour les droits civiques.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,8/10

115 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

3 043

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

A remporté 1 oscar
- 17 victoires et 25 nominations au total

Vidéos3

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Photos107

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Anecdotes
The film is inspired by the murder of voting rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman by the Ku Klux Klan.

Gaffes
When Anderson throws Pell into the chairs at the barbershop, Pell's stunt double has a different hairstyle (balding, with a comb-over).

Citations
Ward: Where does it come from? All this hatred?
Anderson: You know, when I was a little boy, there was an old negro farmer that lived down the road from us, name of Monroe. And he was... well, I guess he was just a little luckier than my daddy was. He bought himself a mule. That was a big deal around that town. My daddy hated that mule, 'cause his friends were always kidding him that they saw Monroe out plowing with his new mule, and Monroe was going to rent another field now he had a mule. One morning, that mule showed up dead. They poisoned the water. After that, there wasn't any mention about that mule around my daddy. It just never came up. One time, we were driving down that road, and we passed Monroe's place and we saw it was empty. He just packed up and left, I guess, he must of went up north or something. I looked over at my daddy's face. I knew he done it. He saw that I knew. He was ashamed. I guess he was ashamed. He looked at me and said, If you ain't better than a nigger, son, who are you better than?
Ward: You think that's an excuse?
Anderson: No it's not an excuse. It's just a story about my daddy.
Ward: Where's that leave you?
Anderson: My old man was just so full of hate that he didn't know that bein' poor was what was killing him.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Naked Gun/Dakota/Mississippi Burning/Vincent (1988)

Bandes originales
Take My Hand Precious Lord
Words and Music by Thomas A. Dorsey
Performed by Mahalia Jackson
Courtesy of CBS Records

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8/10

The film succeeds by being gripping, emotional, and disturbing

Mississippi Burning is set in 1964 when three civil rights activists are murdered in a small town by the Ku Klux Klan Two of them were white and one of them black

Based on actual events in Philadelphia, the screenplay centers chiefly on the hostility relationship between the two FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) sent down to the small Mississippi town to seek information about the vanishing of the three victims Immediately upon their arrival, they are greeted with hostility by the local law enforcement and the town in general

Dafoe's Ward in charge of the casecomes off as the embodiment of everything those men in the south dislike about the "Yankees" who are coming down there commanding them how to act

Anderson(Hackman), who was once a Mississippi officer himself, has a special feel for how to settle things with Southerners He uses his charm to win the confidence of the friendly wife of a Klansman deputy, whom he suspects holds the key to unravel the details of the case

The scenes between McDormand and Hackman are the best of the film They dramatize how quickly two lonely people can match...

The film succeeds by being gripping, emotional, and disturbing Alan parker graphically explores the hatred, motivations and mentality that were once flaming through the American society in the 60's.