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Title: The Promise
Post by: GoldenDieners32 on April 27, 2017, 09:28:07 AM
If you haven't seen the movie "The Promise", I would highly recommend seeing the film. It is about the Armenian Genocide and how 1.5 million Armenians were massacred by Turks in 1915.
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: warriorchick on April 27, 2017, 03:20:51 PM
If you haven't seen the movie "The Promise", I would highly recommend seeing the film. It is about the Armenian Genocide and how 1.5 million Armenians were massacred by Turks in 1915.

I am dying to put a Kardashian joke in here...
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: GoldenDieners32 on April 27, 2017, 03:24:59 PM
I am dying to put a Kardashian joke in here...
so when you think of an Armenian you think of a kardashian right away?
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: warriorchick on April 27, 2017, 04:07:19 PM
so when you think of an Armenian you think of a kardashian right away?

What other famous Armenians are there?

And sorry, I shouldn't have stepped on your serious post.   :-\
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: BM1090 on April 27, 2017, 04:10:43 PM
What other famous Armenians are there?

And sorry, I shouldn't have stepped on your serious post.   :-\

Cher is Armenian.

Andre Agassi is majority Armenian. That's all I got.

To comment on the original post, I've heard mixed things about the movie. I'd recommend people see it just because not many people (and I include myself) know enough about the Armenian Genocide.
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: Spotcheck Billy on April 27, 2017, 04:18:36 PM
What other famous Armenians are there?

And sorry, I shouldn't have stepped on your serious post.   :-\

Jim Belushi
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: TAMU, Knower of Ball on April 27, 2017, 04:47:30 PM
What other famous Armenians are there?

And sorry, I shouldn't have stepped on your serious post.   :-\

The band System of a Down is of Armenian decent. But that's all I got
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: MU Fan in Connecticut on April 28, 2017, 07:49:22 AM
Google always has something.............

http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Famous_Armenians
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: warriorchick on April 28, 2017, 08:04:53 AM
Jim Belushi

He's Albanian, not Armenian.
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: GoldenDieners32 on April 28, 2017, 09:09:42 AM
Steve jobs was armenian. He was adopted and im pretty sure his birth parents were armenian not his adoption parents
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: GoldenDieners32 on April 28, 2017, 09:10:29 AM
And Jerry Tarkanian one of the greatest college coaches ever
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: manny31 on April 28, 2017, 08:33:02 PM
The guy who financed the movie, Kirk Kerkorian, who is now deceased was Armenian and from what I understand pretty well to do.
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: Vander Blue Man Group on April 28, 2017, 08:53:27 PM
If you haven't seen the movie "The Promise", I would highly recommend seeing the film. It is about the Armenian Genocide and how 1.5 million Armenians were massacred by Turks in 1915.

So a comedy?
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: ChitownSpaceForRent on April 28, 2017, 09:59:46 PM
Read a book awhile back about it called "Forgotten Fire" Don't remember it too well but I remember it being very powerful and I quite enjoyed it.

Would give it a recommendation if you wanted to read up on the Armenian genocide.
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: GoldenDieners32 on April 30, 2017, 11:07:01 AM
So a comedy?
Not even funny.
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: Herman Cain on April 30, 2017, 11:50:16 PM
If you haven't seen the movie "The Promise", I would highly recommend seeing the film. It is about the Armenian Genocide and how 1.5 million Armenians were massacred by Turks in 1915.
It is good that people your age are interested in a movie of historical importance such as this. Thanks for the recommendation.
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: MU Fan in Connecticut on May 01, 2017, 09:37:27 AM
If you're checking out movies on Turkey, see Russel Crowe's The Water Diviner.  Post WWI without the genocide.
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: GoldenDieners32 on May 01, 2017, 10:03:22 PM
It is good that people your age are interested in a movie of historical importance such as this. Thanks for the recommendation.
I am Armenian too so that is partly why i recommended it
Title: Re: The Promise
Post by: Benny B on May 02, 2017, 02:59:35 PM
It is good that people your age are interested in a movie of historical importance such as this. Thanks for the recommendation.

Considering that for most people, "if Hollywood didn't make a movie about it, it never happened," it's good that more historically-accurate (or, at the very least, more accurate historical) movies are being made.

Example: I only saw Schindler's List once and it was in a Sociology/Religion-type class right around the time it came out... I vaguely remember the movie itself but I distinctly recall one of the questions that came from a classmate during the discussion that followed: "Were people really that mean to the Jews?"