I was about 8yrs old. My mother thought it was so disgusting, that a white girl was in love with him. I think the movie had nothing to do with that. She just respected him. I love the song by LULU. What do you think?
2007-10-25 12:13:17 · 16 answers · asked by sadiemae 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
my mom was born in 1923
2007-10-25 12:18:28 · update #1
I believe the song was out of respect. If it was true "love" it wouldn't have been sir. He was going to go to a big corporation or something after that year of teaching, and another kid challenged him, so he stayed. So I say respect, out of his love for his students.
2007-10-25 14:37:03 · answer #1 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, your Mom is up there...My Grandpa died in 1997 at age 84. He and my grandmother were born March 12, 1913. Sounds like your mother never liked black people or the idea of "race-mixing" as the haters call it...Anyway, that movie is a classic. It's a tear jerker for sure at the end. I don't think she wanted to sleep with him (not that she wouldn't have...), but I agree with you when you say she respected him and looked up to him. If the movie had been longer or there had been a part two and the say, the students took a trip to the U.S., "Sir" would've given them a better opinion of black men in general, and they could've maybe seen the good, the bad and the ugly of colored men...The song is awesome too...I guess she wrote it (whoever did) especially for the movie...it fit perfectly. Lulu still looks good too! She was on American Idol one season as a guest, I think. The song came out in like what--1965 or something? Maybe 1967? Anyway, great movie, great song! And P.S...To the chic above who said the movie was called The Blackboard Jungle--that's incorrect...that was a totally different movie with a wild, ill-behaved white boy with a James Deany-kinda attitude. I think Portier was a student in that one...I can't remember...Anyway...
2007-10-25 14:17:50 · answer #2 · answered by Mama Nuveau 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To Sir With Love is one of the best movies ever made. I'm 64. The other one is "In The Heat Of The Night".
2007-10-25 13:14:20 · answer #3 · answered by WooleyBooley again 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I love Mr. Poitier, I met him in person in my parents home in South Florida. He had gone to school with our gardener in the Bahamas. He is a truly elegant man. I did enjoy the movie, To Sir with Love and Lulu.
The first date I had with my former husband and the father of my children, was Guess who is coming to Dinner?
It was devastating to my husbands parents that he married a Catholic girl and he was Jewish.
Hopefully, we are more tolerant now than in the past.
2007-10-25 12:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by slk29406 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That was a great movie and I always loved Lulu's singing . What I liked was how he earned the kids respect by not putting up with their crap. Here's a link to refresh your memory.
2007-10-25 15:26:44 · answer #5 · answered by Donna 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not to be rude, but the movie was called the Black Board Jungle. and the song To Sir with love was sung by lulu. and I think that you are right the movie was about the pressures of growing up in the 60s.
2007-10-25 13:45:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
i think the movie was about those students finding out how wrong prejudice is when they got to know an actual black man. all the stereotypes they had heard just didn't make sense once they got to know that teacher. yes, they learned to love and respect him. they stopped seeing him as just black and saw him as a good, decent man.
the song is great, and yeah, i was in love a little bit with poitier as a young girl too. : )
2007-10-25 12:31:02 · answer #7 · answered by waterlin 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Who hasn't been in love with a teacher ... I loved that movie what I can remember of it and have always admired, respected and been awed by Poitiers.
He was one of the first to demand roles that placed him a position to be viewed first as a man of worth - second as a Black Man.
Did anyone see the movie he did with his daughter Sydney? Can't remember the name of it but she is a pretty darn good actor.
2007-10-25 12:32:38 · answer #8 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I love that movie, in fact, all of Poitiers movies.
In 8th grade, we had to do co-ed dancing in the gym and "To Sir With Love" was the song they used...
2007-10-25 14:49:31 · answer #9 · answered by karen_03625 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I loved that movie. I had the feeling they were falling in love. Your mother's feelings were probably shared by nearly everyone her age and still shared by a few people today.
2007-10-25 12:39:40 · answer #10 · answered by curious connie 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋