Jamil is an excellent interviewer. The questions are short and to the point. He yields all the time to his guest instead of loving the sound of his own voice. He's actually more of my fav than even Larry King who was committed to being more of a listener and not the talker. Bravo 👏
I Can't Wait To Brace Myself To Another Vision Of Enslaved AA PPL WHO ARE THE MOST RESILIENT HUMAN BEINGS THAT THE ALMIGHTY CREATED AS AN EXAMPLE OF SUPERIORITY
*_“The Underground Railroad” has been shut out of the 2021 Emmy Awards. After receiving seven nominations, including recognition for showrunner Barry Jenkins (Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series) and the series overall (Outstanding Limited Series), the Amazon Prime Video original lost all seven categories over two weekends of Emmy presentations."_*
Howard Grammer - 0:20 shows "Prime Video" in the lower right corner of the clip, and I believe I have seen the advertisements on Amazon Prime. As a lifelong central/western New Yorker always interested in the actual underground railroad locations around me, I have been looking forward to this depiction and it's revelations.
@ S Joseph Did I call it "black trauma porn" ? No. In anticipation of mobs of people who will be quick to mischaracterize, compartmentalize, disparage, prejudge, write off & dismiss the Amazon series by identifying the trendy "black trauma porn" buzzwords with what Jenkins has adapted/created, I said to beware of them. So nothing is "obvious" but your miscomprehension and the fact that you don't know what I've read or watched. Try to have a good day...or not.
This movie is not a Wakandian fantasy. It’s based on actual events. Jenkins is trying to convey a message but he’s messing with history in order to say it and that’s not cool.
So which is it? You're saying it is based on "actual events", then you're saying it is "not cool" how Jenkins depicts things in a series adapted from a HISTORICAL FICTION novel.
@@m.worthy It’s a bit like James Cameron injecting a fictional love story into Titanic just to spice it up. I posted this comment on another YT video about this movie: The Underground Railroad did exist. Coleson Whitehead’s book is a fictional embellishment of it’s history and this movie is a ’re-conceptualisation’, as the director puts it, of that book. So it’s a second-generation interpretation of an inherently nebulous subject and not an attempt at an accurate historical account of it. Viewers need to keep that in mind. How much of it is fact and how much is fantasy? There’s no way to know for sure. As a side note, improvising over historical events is risky at best but when you’re injecting personal preferences (or a topical socio-political message) into it you’re really walking on thin ice.
@@m.worthy Let’s face it - the subject matter and the timing of this movie’s release makes its intentions perfectly clear. Black Panther was fiction created to instil a sense of dignity in its black viewers. This movie hopes to do the same except it’s also riding on the current BLM/Woke zeitgeist. The only difference is the ‘artistic licence’ double-whammy of basing a semi-fictional movie on a semi-fictional book (about a non-fictional historical event). It is ‘re-conceptualising’ history to suit a current socio-political agenda. You warned us about “the mobs of people who will call this ‘Black Trauma Porn’ (🤣 great term btw) and mischaracterize, compartmentalize, disparage, prejudge etc” which alludes to you expecting a possibly unjustified backlash against it. Well I’ve justified my position on it. Please - justify yours.
The book and the series are fantasies, utilizing magical realism to portray the underground railroad as an actual railroad instead of a network of safe houses. Unfortunately many viewers will not understand the conceit.
He is interrupting a novel that's it...however he is showing us how it destroyed our minds and the trauma of it all...we gonna keep telling our story over and over again
Jamil is an excellent interviewer. The questions are short and to the point. He yields all the time to his guest instead of loving the sound of his own voice. He's actually more of my fav than even Larry King who was committed to being more of a listener and not the talker. Bravo 👏
I Can't Wait To Brace Myself To Another Vision Of Enslaved AA PPL WHO ARE THE MOST RESILIENT HUMAN BEINGS THAT THE ALMIGHTY CREATED AS AN EXAMPLE OF SUPERIORITY
Working on this project was EPIC.
What a job well done guys! Proud of all of you. Shout out to Thuso Mbedu. You’ve made us proud back home. 🇿🇦🇿🇦🔥🔥👌👌
I don’t know why more people haven’t seen this!!
Great interviewing and Barry, you are a genius in choosing/directing actors and crafting amazing visual scenarios.
Loved the series and reading the novel right now
Amazing that even a story that's supposed to be about runaway slaves is mainly about the slave catcher.
*_“The Underground Railroad” has been shut out of the 2021 Emmy Awards. After receiving seven nominations, including recognition for showrunner Barry Jenkins (Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series) and the series overall (Outstanding Limited Series), the Amazon Prime Video original lost all seven categories over two weekends of Emmy presentations."_*
Awesome 👏
Sensational and utterly sad story
Powerful! Great! Movie! Love it!
Where Can I watch this ? Netflix?
Howard Grammer - 0:20 shows "Prime Video" in the lower right corner of the clip, and I believe I have seen the advertisements on Amazon Prime. As a lifelong central/western New Yorker always interested in the actual underground railroad locations around me, I have been looking forward to this depiction and it's revelations.
Amazon Prime (although I thought I had seen adverts for Netflix).
Beware of the "Black trauma porn" mob coming at you.....Conspiracies ready.
@@m.worthy obviously you haven’t read the book or seen any of the series. It isn’t black trauma porn. It is an ode to black survival.
@ S Joseph
Did I call it "black trauma porn" ?
No.
In anticipation of mobs of people who will be quick to mischaracterize, compartmentalize, disparage, prejudge, write off & dismiss the Amazon series by identifying the trendy "black trauma porn" buzzwords with what Jenkins has adapted/created, I said to beware of them.
So nothing is "obvious" but your miscomprehension and the fact that you don't know what I've read or watched.
Try to have a good day...or not.
Watched the 10 episodes today. 👍🏼 I expected it to be historically accurate, not so, but emotionally made a point.
It's an adaptation of a novel by COLSON WHITEHEAD
This movie is not a Wakandian fantasy. It’s based on actual events. Jenkins is trying to convey a message but he’s messing with history in order to say it and that’s not cool.
So which is it?
You're saying it is based on "actual events", then you're saying it is "not cool" how Jenkins depicts things in a series adapted from a HISTORICAL FICTION novel.
@@m.worthy It’s a bit like James Cameron injecting a fictional love story into Titanic just to spice it up.
I posted this comment on another YT video about this movie:
The Underground Railroad did exist. Coleson Whitehead’s book is a fictional embellishment of it’s history and this movie is a ’re-conceptualisation’, as the director puts it, of that book. So it’s a second-generation interpretation of an inherently nebulous subject and not an attempt at an accurate historical account of it. Viewers need to keep that in mind. How much of it is fact and how much is fantasy? There’s no way to know for sure. As a side note, improvising over historical events is risky at best but when you’re injecting personal preferences (or a topical socio-political message) into it you’re really walking on thin ice.
@@m.worthy Let’s face it - the subject matter and the timing of this movie’s release makes its intentions perfectly clear. Black Panther was fiction created to instil a sense of dignity in its black viewers. This movie hopes to do the same except it’s also riding on the current BLM/Woke zeitgeist. The only difference is the ‘artistic licence’ double-whammy of basing a semi-fictional movie on a semi-fictional book (about a non-fictional historical event). It is ‘re-conceptualising’ history to suit a current socio-political agenda. You warned us about “the mobs of people who will call this ‘Black Trauma Porn’ (🤣 great term btw) and mischaracterize, compartmentalize, disparage, prejudge etc” which alludes to you expecting a possibly unjustified backlash against it. Well I’ve justified my position on it. Please - justify yours.
The book and the series are fantasies, utilizing magical realism to portray the underground railroad as an actual railroad instead of a network of safe houses. Unfortunately many viewers will not understand the conceit.
He is interrupting a novel that's it...however he is showing us how it destroyed our minds and the trauma of it all...we gonna keep telling our story over and over again