Word: underground
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Though their bombs never killed anyone but three of their own members in an accidental explosion, the members of the Weather Underground had inverted the very principles of pacifism that had motivated so many to oppose the Vietnam War in the first place. Green’s film is a 90-minute attempt to understand that contradiction—but ultimately, he says, the questions surrounding the Weather Underground cannot be answered for those who lived through the events...
Green’s only complaint about his visit to Harvard, though, is that there were too many middle-aged people and not enough students in the audience at the archive. The decades-old wounds explored by The Weather Underground are still far from healing—a fact made clear by the scattered hisses that greeted figures from Richard Nixon to Todd Gitlin, a more moderate figure from the anti-war movement of the 1960s, as they appeared on screen...
Green—from the middle generation, born between the boomers he knows are still racked by the debates of the 1960s and the youth he now hopes to bring into them—says his interest in the Weather Underground long predates his career as a filmmaker...
Green says The Weather Underground began in earnest in 1998 out of “curiosity” springing from a series of conversations with a former activist living near him in San Francisco...
...striking clip from The Weather Underground, activists bar journalists—“vultures,” in their words—from a leftist convention. The main characters of Green’s film spent ten years hiding from the world. And in a time when even the Weather Underground’s deathless bombings strike any number of deeply-felt chords, Green says he found that many of his subjects retained the same distrust of publicity...