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''The Times of Harvey Milk'' is a 1984 documentary film directed by Rob Epstein.
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''The Times of Harvey Milk'' is a 1984 documentary film directed by Rob Epstein.
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* HowWeGotHere: The film starts with footage of a rattled Dianne Feinstein[[then President of the Board of Supervisors, immediately thereafter acting mayor, and future United States Senator[[/note]] announcing the murders of Moscone and Milk by Dan White.
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* HowWeGotHere: The film starts with footage of a rattled Dianne Feinstein[[then Feinstein[[note]]then President of the Board of Supervisors, immediately thereafter acting mayor, and future United States Senator[[/note]] announcing the murders of Moscone and Milk by Dan White.
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Milk had been on the board for less than a year when he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a conservative and political opponent of Moscone and Milk. White infamously was acquitted of murder by a sympathetic jury, getting a manslaughter conviction that allowed him to be paroled after serving only five years.
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Milk had been on the board for less than a year when he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a conservative and a political opponent of Moscone and Milk. White infamously was acquitted of murder by a sympathetic jury, getting a manslaughter conviction that allowed him to be paroled after serving only five years.
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It is about, yes, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk Harvey Milk]] (1930-1978). Milk, a gay man and an activist for gay rights, was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, becoming the first openly gay man elected to political office in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco and quite likely the first openly gay man elected to any political office anywhere in the United States. During his brief time in office Milk helped pass a landmark gay rights measure in San Francisco, and was instrumental in the defeat of the Briggs Initiative, a California ballot proposal that would have banned homosexuals from teaching in California public schools. Milk had been on the board for less than a year when he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a conservative and political opponent of Moscone and Milk. White infamously was acquitted of murder by a sympathetic jury, getting a manslaughter conviction that allowed him to be paroled after serving only five years.
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It is about, yes, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk Harvey Milk]] (1930-1978). Milk, a gay man and an activist for gay rights, was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, becoming the first openly gay man elected to political office in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco and quite likely the first openly gay man elected to any political office anywhere in the United States. During his brief time in office Milk helped pass a landmark gay rights measure in San Francisco, and was instrumental in the defeat of the Briggs Initiative, a California ballot proposal that would have banned homosexuals from teaching in California public schools.
Milk had been on the board for less than a year when he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a conservative and political opponent of Moscone and Milk. White infamously was acquitted of murder by a sympathetic jury, getting a manslaughter conviction that allowed him to be paroled after serving only five years.
Milk had been on the board for less than a year when he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a conservative and political opponent of Moscone and Milk. White infamously was acquitted of murder by a sympathetic jury, getting a manslaughter conviction that allowed him to be paroled after serving only five years.
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* AllGaysLoveTheater: Yep. Before moving to San Francisco, Harvey worked in Broadway theater for a while. (The film does not mention it but he was an associate producer of ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'').
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* PrideParade: Harvey Milk marches in one. In the 1970s they were still rather novel. (The first one was in 1972.) Dan White tries to ban them.
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* PolitcallyIncorrectVillain: Hoo boy. Dan White is the worst, but John Briggs, sponsor of an ugly anti-gay ballot measure, gets a lot of screen time.
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''The Times of Harvey Milk'' is a 1984 documentary film directed by Rob Epstein.
It is about, yes, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk Harvey Milk]] (1930-1978). Milk, a gay man and an activist for gay rights, was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, becoming the first openly gay man elected to political office in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco and quite likely the first openly gay man elected to any political office anywhere in the United States. During his brief time in office Milk helped pass a landmark gay rights measure in San Francisco, and was instrumental in the defeat of the Briggs Initiative, a California ballot proposal that would have banned homosexuals from teaching in California public schools. Milk had been on the board for less than a year when he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a conservative and political opponent of Moscone and Milk. White infamously was acquitted of murder by a sympathetic jury, getting a manslaughter conviction that allowed him to be paroled after serving only five years.
Compare ''Film/{{Milk}}'', a 2008 biopic starring Creator/SeanPenn.
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!!Tropes:
* BriefAccentImitation: Tom Ammiano, who speaks with the most CampGay voice imaginable, briefly drops his voice into a more stereotypically masculine register when he's talking about standard liberal opposition to the death penalty.
* BuryYourGays: A tragic RealLife example, as Harvey Milk is cut down at the height of his political career.
* DownerEnding: Harvey Milk is murdered. Being as how this film was made in 1984, it obviously does not mention all the advances in gay rights that might make that less depressing.
* DueToTheDead: The candlelight march from the Castro to City Hall that took place the night of Milk's murder, Nov. 27, 1978.
* ElectionDayEpisode: Two elections: Milk's triumphant election as Supervisor for district 5 in 1977, and the defeat of the Briggs Initiative in the 1978 midterms.
* TheFundamentalist: John Briggs, who wants to deprive every gay teacher in California of their jobs. Another scene shows a Catholic minister delivering a virulently anti-gay sermon.
* {{Gayborhood}}: The first one ever, possibly, as Harvey Milk was just one of many many gay people who descended upon the Castro district of San Francisco.
* HowWeGotHere: The film starts with footage of a rattled Dianne Feinstein announcing the murders of Moscone and Milk by Dan White.
* JumpCut: Several of the interview segments have these, as do a couple of the stock footage interview sequences.
* KarmaHoudini: Dan White took his gun to City Hall, along with an extra ammo clip. He climbed through a window to avoid the metal detector. He shot George Moscone, who was refusing to give White his supervisor job back, to death. ''Then he reloaded'' before walking over to Harvey Milk's office and murdering him as well. Despite all this, a sympathetic jury believed the defense argument that White had not pre-planned the murders due to his diminished capacity and depression (one symptom cited was White's consumption of Twinkies, giving rise to the derisive term "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense Twinkie defense]]"). The film was made shortly after White was paroled in 1984, and mentions this, but was made too soon to mention White's suicide in 1985.
* TheKenBurnsEffect: Used heavily throughout the movie, with many many pictures being panned and zoomed. Possibly the most notable instance comes when a newspaper photo of Dan White is shown as his confession plays. As the audio clip goes on, the camera zooms in on White very very slowly, ending with a tight closeup on his eyes.
* {{Narrator}}: Narrated by well-known gay actor and writer Harvey Fierstein.
* PolitcallyIncorrectVillain: Hoo boy. Dan White is the worst, but John Briggs, sponsor of an ugly anti-gay ballot measure, gets a lot of screen time.
* PrideParade: Harvey Milk marches in one. In the 1970s they were still rather novel. (The first one was in 1972.) Dan White tries to ban them.
* StockFootage: Lots and lots. The only original footage is the interview sequences.
* TalkingHeads: This time-honored documentary trope is employed here, as several of the people who knew Harvey Milk talk about his life and career.
* ThinkOfTheChildren: As one of Harvey's friends points out in an interview, the Briggs Initiative was cleverly designed to play on nebulous fears of child molesters attacking schoolchildren, in order to deprive gays of their civil rights.
It is about, yes, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk Harvey Milk]] (1930-1978). Milk, a gay man and an activist for gay rights, was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, becoming the first openly gay man elected to political office in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco and quite likely the first openly gay man elected to any political office anywhere in the United States. During his brief time in office Milk helped pass a landmark gay rights measure in San Francisco, and was instrumental in the defeat of the Briggs Initiative, a California ballot proposal that would have banned homosexuals from teaching in California public schools. Milk had been on the board for less than a year when he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a conservative and political opponent of Moscone and Milk. White infamously was acquitted of murder by a sympathetic jury, getting a manslaughter conviction that allowed him to be paroled after serving only five years.
Compare ''Film/{{Milk}}'', a 2008 biopic starring Creator/SeanPenn.
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!!Tropes:
* BriefAccentImitation: Tom Ammiano, who speaks with the most CampGay voice imaginable, briefly drops his voice into a more stereotypically masculine register when he's talking about standard liberal opposition to the death penalty.
* BuryYourGays: A tragic RealLife example, as Harvey Milk is cut down at the height of his political career.
* DownerEnding: Harvey Milk is murdered. Being as how this film was made in 1984, it obviously does not mention all the advances in gay rights that might make that less depressing.
* DueToTheDead: The candlelight march from the Castro to City Hall that took place the night of Milk's murder, Nov. 27, 1978.
* ElectionDayEpisode: Two elections: Milk's triumphant election as Supervisor for district 5 in 1977, and the defeat of the Briggs Initiative in the 1978 midterms.
* TheFundamentalist: John Briggs, who wants to deprive every gay teacher in California of their jobs. Another scene shows a Catholic minister delivering a virulently anti-gay sermon.
* {{Gayborhood}}: The first one ever, possibly, as Harvey Milk was just one of many many gay people who descended upon the Castro district of San Francisco.
* HowWeGotHere: The film starts with footage of a rattled Dianne Feinstein announcing the murders of Moscone and Milk by Dan White.
* JumpCut: Several of the interview segments have these, as do a couple of the stock footage interview sequences.
* KarmaHoudini: Dan White took his gun to City Hall, along with an extra ammo clip. He climbed through a window to avoid the metal detector. He shot George Moscone, who was refusing to give White his supervisor job back, to death. ''Then he reloaded'' before walking over to Harvey Milk's office and murdering him as well. Despite all this, a sympathetic jury believed the defense argument that White had not pre-planned the murders due to his diminished capacity and depression (one symptom cited was White's consumption of Twinkies, giving rise to the derisive term "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense Twinkie defense]]"). The film was made shortly after White was paroled in 1984, and mentions this, but was made too soon to mention White's suicide in 1985.
* TheKenBurnsEffect: Used heavily throughout the movie, with many many pictures being panned and zoomed. Possibly the most notable instance comes when a newspaper photo of Dan White is shown as his confession plays. As the audio clip goes on, the camera zooms in on White very very slowly, ending with a tight closeup on his eyes.
* {{Narrator}}: Narrated by well-known gay actor and writer Harvey Fierstein.
* PolitcallyIncorrectVillain: Hoo boy. Dan White is the worst, but John Briggs, sponsor of an ugly anti-gay ballot measure, gets a lot of screen time.
* PrideParade: Harvey Milk marches in one. In the 1970s they were still rather novel. (The first one was in 1972.) Dan White tries to ban them.
* StockFootage: Lots and lots. The only original footage is the interview sequences.
* TalkingHeads: This time-honored documentary trope is employed here, as several of the people who knew Harvey Milk talk about his life and career.
* ThinkOfTheChildren: As one of Harvey's friends points out in an interview, the Briggs Initiative was cleverly designed to play on nebulous fears of child molesters attacking schoolchildren, in order to deprive gays of their civil rights.
