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This Movie Changed Me

The Ox-Bow Incident — Rubén Blades

This Movie Changed Me

On Being Studios

Tv & Film, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6589 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Movies can fundamentally shape the course of our work. That’s how the 1940s noir-Western “The Ox-Bow Incident” transformed salsa musician-activist-lawyer Rubén Blades. It taught him that it wasn’t enough to speak about justice — he had to defend its ideals.

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0:00.0

Hello, fellow movie fans.

0:01.5

I'm Lily Percy, and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with Thruwen Blades about the movie that changed his life, the Oxbow incident.

0:08.8

You may not have heard of it.

0:10.2

I certainly hadn't.

0:11.6

But don't worry, we're going to give you all the details you'll need to follow along. the America

0:26.5

the

0:27.6

the

0:29.0

don't know

0:30.0

to find

0:30.6

to find

0:30.9

to

0:33.9

their

0:34.2

have

0:34.8

been

0:34.9

per die

0:35.6

in the song that we're listening to is called Buscando America.

0:43.3

It's by Rueblaez, one of my heroes and someone that has influenced my life in profound ways.

0:50.3

He's a musician. He's perhaps one of the biggest salsa musicians of our time.

0:56.3

And he's also an activist and a lawyer, something that a lot of people don't know about him.

1:02.1

And I wanted to talk to Rueh M because I know that he loves movies.

1:04.7

He's actually been in a lot of movies, credited here in the U.S. as Ruben Blades instead of Rueh Mblades.

1:10.8

And I have to say that the movie

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