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Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman have brought history to life
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Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis in August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” streaming on Netflix. Photo courtesy of Netflix.
Just as every premiere of an August Wilson play on Broadway was a major event, every film based on his plays should shake the earth beneath our feet. Especially for those of us who, being white, get to know Wilson’s characters from the outside looking in, film adaptations like “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” should be a clarion call for all of us to listen actively, experience deeply, break some bread, and renew our commitment to those ever-elusive concepts of social justice and true empathy.
Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman have brought history to life (Opinion) CNN 12/21/2020 Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph © David Lee/DSC 1314/David Lee/Netflix Ma Rainey s Black Bottom (2020): (L to R) Michael Potts as Slow Drag, Chadwick Boseman as Levee and Colman Domingo as Cutler. Cr. David Lee / Netflix Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, which represents the late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman s final cinematic performance, is a deft celebration of the blues that showcases the grandeur and travails of creating art as an expression of dignity in a world scarred by Jim Crow segregation.
The film adaptation of legendary Black playwright August Wilson s play, which premiered on Netflix Friday, was inspired by the historical Ma Rainey known as the Mother of the Blues and transports contemporary viewers to the Chicago of 1927.