![]() ![]() After discussion with staff and community members, however, we agreed that at this moment in history, John Lewis: Good Trouble is the right film to open this year's Drive-In series" (via Washington Times).Historic downtown Ashland featured prominently in Wild, the highly acclaimed 2014 film adaptation of the best-selling book, starring Reese Witherspoon as Oregon author Cheryl Strayed. The additional showing on August 6 replaces Kindergarten Cop, which had been chosen for its importance in Oregon filmmaking history. In a statement, the Northwest Film Center said, "Due to overwhelming demand, the Northwest Film Center has added a second showing of John Lewis: Good Trouble to the Cinema Unbound Drive-In at Zidell Yards. John Lewis: Good Trouble opened the summer Drive-In series on August 6 - which was good news for many hoping to catch the flick, as the previously scheduled August 7 showing sold out. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. The film's title comes from a tweet the late Congressman posted in 2018, which read, "Do not get lost in a sea of despair. The Northwest Film Center agreed, choosing instead to open the Drive-In series with a film that's a bit more in step with current events. That being said, Leveen certainly has a point about this particular time being an odd one to revisit the film. One could argue that even by the standards of 1990, Kindergarten Cop isn't exactly an accurate representation of school policing, and that its premise is pure Hollywood. Much of the film's humor comes from seeing Schwarzenegger, at the time the biggest action star in the world, figuratively and often literally brought to his knees by the boundless energy and nonsensical ravings of a classroom full of kindergartners. Of course, he's able to find Rachel - and when Crisp escapes from prison, Kimble must protect both her and the boy from his wrath. But when Phoebe falls ill with severe food poisoning, Kimble must take her place. Kimble and his partner Phoebe (Pamela Reed), a former teacher, hatch a plan: Phoebe will go undercover as a substitute teacher for that class in order to locate the boy's mother, who has taken on an assumed name of her own. Cops transform schools, and in an extremely detrimental way." Because despite what the movie shows, in reality, schools don't transform cops. "So are Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind, but we recognize films like those are not 'good family fun.' They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions. "It's true Kindergarten Cop is only a movie," the letter reads in part. Thereafter, Leveen wrote a letter to a local Oregon paper, Willamette Week. And this criminalizing of children increases dramatically when cops are assigned to work in schools." Five- and 6-year-olds are handcuffed and hauled off to jail routinely in this country. There's nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools, which feeds the 'school-to-prison' pipeline in which African American, Latinx and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated. ", we are trying to end the school-to-prison pipeline. ![]() "National reckoning on overpolicing is a weird time to revive Kindergarten Cop," Leveen posted to her account, which has since been made private. ![]()
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