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Steve Anderson's avatar

Great stuff. Those graphics alone draw you in. I'd say this one's long overdue for a reboot!

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Kathlyn's avatar

You beat me to it! Yes, more power to her! If they don’t remake her films, then someone needs to write more stories about her!! 😍

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Peter Pappas's avatar

We’re looking at you, Netflix!

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E.R. Flynn's avatar

I'll have to watch the film. I wonder if the popularity of French film serial "Les Vampires" (1915-1916), whose main characters were Irma Vep and her band of bat costumed jewel thieves, played into creation of Filibus? It's also interesting that both of these came out right when the women's suffrage movement was still in mind even as WW1 was starting to ramp up.

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Peter Pappas's avatar

I found a number of good articles on the film, the era and its influence. Should be ripe for more research

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Peter Pappas's avatar

Dean’s list content!

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Bern's avatar

"the term denoted American adventurers who incited revolution in several Latin American states"

Hoo boy is that neutralized...the filibusters were US white racist authoritarian wannabe dictators who rampaged thru central America to set up their own dominions. Failed miserably when confronted with not-so-inferior peoples defending their own nations. But boy howdy did United Fruit learn the lesson and try to improve on the filibusters' results. Thence Smedley Butler, etc.

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Peter Pappas's avatar

I just copied out of dictionary. But you’re right - there’s more to that story

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Bern's avatar

We are just back from Costa Rica, on a natural resources trip, with a particularly good guide who talked about lots more than just the birds, bees and howler monkeys. One of his chats was about political history, and he mentioned he would talk about how a US citizen featured in Costa Rica's weird political past. He then named William Walker and I yelled "you mean the filibuster?!" and he looked long and hard at me before replying "Yes, an interesting character..."

Anyway, Walker was a piece of work. Described variously as physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary, he was actually a racist enslaver and warmonger. Chose as a life goal to set up new slave states across Central America to join what would become the Confederacy. Overthrew the Nicaraguan govt, installed a dictatorship, established slavery as policy, but got on the wrong side of Cornelius Vanderbilt and the British Crown, who didn't like how he was messing with the transit of trade across the isthmus. Eventually overthrown, then raised up another filibuster against Costa Rica, but was beaten back by civilian volunteers.

Finally executed by the Honduran govt.

Whenever anyone filibusters in congress the world should be made aware and understand precisely what the word means and why it's such a vile stain on our govt.

Other than that, not much more to the story...

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Peter Pappas's avatar

Great story. Walker sounds like the prototype for the “ugly American”

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Bern's avatar

Should add I will definitely watch the flick, but I really hope there's a graphic novel out there somewhere too. Those posters are cherce.

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Kathlyn's avatar

That art style is just so fabulous, and come on, it screams steampunk graphic novel!!

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