Ken Burns America Collection - Huey Long
by Ken Burns
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Actor: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., David McCullough, Huey Long, Jennings Randolph, Russell LongDirector: Ken Burns
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Buddy Squires
Cinematographer: Ken Burns
Producer: Ken Burns
Editor: Amy Stechler
Producer: Richard Kilberg
Writer: Geoffrey C. Ward
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS Paramount
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DVD Review: Absolute Power
Summary: 3 Stars
I rented this because I'm fascinated by politics and I love men with chin dimples. Despite my whimsical reasons for seeing this, I am glad I learned about a controversial figure in American history. This will teach one a lot about charismatic figures.
I think I, and many others, may have become overly accustomed to the flashy and light-hearted biographies produced by A&E. Like other works in Ken Burns' oeuvre, this work is serious in tone. Despite being released approximately 20 years ago, this work did not seem dated. Those who find Cajun accents and the voices of the elderly exotic will especially love hearing the interviewees here. At one point, they show Long singing a jingle. I laughed inside just the way I rolled on the floor when John Ashcroft introduced his song "Let the Eagle Fly."
Huey Long promoted a redistribution of wealth. They mention that he admired previous populist William Jennings Bryan. However, I wonder from where else his class-based views arrived? Was he influenced by Marxism or socialism at all? Long helped the first woman be elected to the Senate. He fought the synecdoche between man and human kind, by adding "Every Girl a Queen" to his motto "Every Man a King," though "girl" seems un-feminist to those in the "post-post-post" era. The narrator says Long did not "race-bait" in his speeches and the work includes one African-American interviewee. Nevertheless, more could have been said. Burns, in the past, has said racial relations are essential to American history and that he tries to focus upon it in every work, but this did not happen here. President Woodrow Wilson created all kinds of measures to help working-class people, yet he was profoundly anti-black. This work never says if Huey Long was different. This lacuna is a problem.
This work begins with showing many people who loved him and it ends with showing many people who hated him. I wonder if this love-hate dynamic was there all along. Modern viewers may relate as President Bush, Jr. is said to be loved or hated by most. Long predicted his murder, just as Malcolm X would three decades later. This work basically said Long had one assassin, but Wikipedia suggests that one of his bodyguards may have accidentally shot and killed Long.
Part of me wonders if Long is history that could not repeat itself. He's loud like Traficante, who was booted from office, and is now in prison. He was a maverick like Howard Dean, who was quickly dismissed as "un-presidential." He was a populist like Jesse Ventura, another chin dimple owner, who only had a few years in office. It's harder now for politicians to rock the boat like he did, especially a Robin Hood-type like Long. Though the past may be the past, I was pleased by learning of this deceased elected official.
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