Apple held its first showing today of Emancipation, the Antoine Fuqua-directed thriller that stars Will Smith an enslaved man who, after recovering from a whipping that nearly killed him, braved th…
The film has held a high profile since Apple won the rights to make it in a record-breaking auction. Scripted by William N. Collage,was inspired by 1863 photographs taken of Peter, when the formerly enslaved man joined the Union Army in hopes of finding his family. The photographs were seen around the world and galvanized opposition to slavery as barbaric.
We weren’t privy to the post-screening conversation with Fuqua, Smith and Mary Elliott, curator of American Slavery at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Moderated by politics and culture commentator Angela Rye, it marked the first public comments made by the director and star about the film.
The inevitable Tweets are rolling in, the focus on the discourse of an historically important issue. Here is a sample. Will the public and awards crowd look past the distraction to the substance of an important film? We will know soon enough.and can’t begin to tell how powerful this is for OUR community and OUR history. It’s a story of adversity, of resilience, of love, and of triumph.
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