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''Mississippi Burning'' is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo. It was loosely based on the FBI investigation into the murders of three civil rights workers in the U.S. state of Mississippi in 1964. The film focuses on the professional relationship between two FBI agents portrayed by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe who investigate the murders. Hackman's character of agent Rupert Anderson, and Dafoe's part of agent Alan Ward, are loosely based on the partnership of FBI agents John Proctor and Joseph Sullivan. The film also features Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, and Gailard Sartain in supporting roles. It won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and was nominated in a number of other categories including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Filming locations included a number of locales in central Mississippi and LaFayette, Alabama. ==Plot== In 1964, three civil rights workers who organize a voter registry for minorities in Jessup County Mississippi, go missing. The FBI sends two agents, Rupert Anderson (Hackman) and Alan Ward (Dafoe) to investigate. The pair find it difficult to conduct interviews with the local townspeople, as Sheriff Stuckey (Sartain) and his deputies exert influence over the public and are linked to a branch of the Ku Klux Klan. The wife (McDormand) of Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell (Dourif), reveals to Anderson in a discreet conversation that the missing civil rights trio have been murdered, with their bodies buried in an earthen dam. Sheriff Stuckey deduces her confession to the FBI and informs Sheriff Pell, who beats her in retribution. Anderson and Ward devise a plan to indict members of the Klan for the murders. They arrange for a kidnapping of mayor Tilman (Ermey), taking him to a remote shack. There, he is left with a black man (Djola) who threatens to castrate him unless he talks. The abductor is an FBI operative utilized to intimidate the mayor. The mayor gives the operative a full description of the killings, including the names of those involved. Although his statement isn't admissible in court due to coercion, his information proves valuable to the investigators. Anderson and Ward exploit the new information to concoct a plan, luring identified KKK collaborators to a bogus meeting. The Klan members soon realize it's a set up, and leave without discussing the murders. The FBI who are eavesdropping, concentrate on Lester Cowens (Vince), a Klansman of interest who exhibits a nervous demeanor which the agents believe might yield a confession. The FBI pick him up and interrogate him. Later, Cowens is at home when his window is blown out. He looks out to see a burning cross on the lawn. Cowens tries to flee in his truck but is caught by a number of hooded men, who begin to hang him. The FBI developed the ruse, arriving to rescue Cowens, while pretending to chase away the hooded men who are in fact other FBI agents. Cowens, believing that his KKK henchmen have threatened his life due to his admissions with the FBI, speaks to the agents and incriminates his accomplices. They charge the Klansmen with civil rights violations to gain prosecution at the federal level. Most of the perpetrators are found guilty and receive sentences ranging from three to ten years in prison. Mayor Tilman is later found dead by the FBI in an apparent suicide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mississippi Burning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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