This is a movie that is was very interested in seeing since it came out. However, when it comes to movies about slavery they tend to be very gruesome and overly shocking. I am not saying that slavery was not gruesome or overly shocking. I am saying that how Hollywood plays up those part it tends to overshadow the writing, acting, and other aspects that made that time period as bad as it was. The violence tends to be the focus point of the story rather the story itself. This film did not do any of that. It was violent and it was shocking... but it was appropriate and not excessive. It aided the film to give it meaning and suspense. It was the "money shot" that some of these movie give them just to sell the ticket. This movie had a story that wanted to be told and it was told in a beautiful, powerful, and meaningful way.
Friday, December 29, 2017
Best Picture of 2013: 12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup was a free African American living in the north in 1841. A talented violinist, Northup was out looking for his next gig to play at when he is introduced to two men. They are looking for a great talent and start talking to him about him joining their circus. They take him out to dinner and show him a great time. He starts to feel really sick and then is taken back to his hotel room to rest up. The next morning he wakes up in a brick room chained to the wall. He finds out the he has been kidnapped and sold as a slave. We follow Northup for the next 12 years of his life to see the story of the people he met and what his life was like 12 Years A Slave.
Stories like Northup's do not come around every day. It is also stories like Northup's that are rarely talked about in school. These are the types of stories that get people interest in history. The personal stories of people who have actually live through these time that we hardly hear about. Steve McQueen bringing Northup's story to life proved not only a great story about human spirit to tell, but a story that help people of today really relate and think about what situations like this really were in the past. With the assistance of Fox Searchlight, McQueen was able to being in a few Oscars that night. Other's nominated for Best Picture that night were: Columbia's American Hustle and Captain Phillips; Focus Features' Dallas Buyers Club; Warner Brothers' Gravity and Her; Paramount's Nebraska and The Wolf of Wall Street; and The Weinstein Company's Philomena.
This is a movie that is was very interested in seeing since it came out. However, when it comes to movies about slavery they tend to be very gruesome and overly shocking. I am not saying that slavery was not gruesome or overly shocking. I am saying that how Hollywood plays up those part it tends to overshadow the writing, acting, and other aspects that made that time period as bad as it was. The violence tends to be the focus point of the story rather the story itself. This film did not do any of that. It was violent and it was shocking... but it was appropriate and not excessive. It aided the film to give it meaning and suspense. It was the "money shot" that some of these movie give them just to sell the ticket. This movie had a story that wanted to be told and it was told in a beautiful, powerful, and meaningful way.
This is a movie that is was very interested in seeing since it came out. However, when it comes to movies about slavery they tend to be very gruesome and overly shocking. I am not saying that slavery was not gruesome or overly shocking. I am saying that how Hollywood plays up those part it tends to overshadow the writing, acting, and other aspects that made that time period as bad as it was. The violence tends to be the focus point of the story rather the story itself. This film did not do any of that. It was violent and it was shocking... but it was appropriate and not excessive. It aided the film to give it meaning and suspense. It was the "money shot" that some of these movie give them just to sell the ticket. This movie had a story that wanted to be told and it was told in a beautiful, powerful, and meaningful way.
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