âItâs all about moneyâ: why black stories suddenly matter to Hollywood
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Selma,
Knives Out star whose latest role is winning some of his best reviews, laughs.
âGood old Hollywood,â he says. âHollywood is a business. Itâs all about money. They have no choice but to change.â
Daniel Kaluuya as âChairman Fredâ Hampton (left) is watched by LaKeith Stanfield as FBI informer William OâNeal in Judas and the Black Messiah.
Credit:Warner Bros
At a time when the pandemic has been boosting streaming services and bruising cinemas, Hollywood has been delivering a surprising number of compelling African-American stories. Following on from Spike Leeâs
The “messiah” of the title is Fred Hampton, a Black Panther leader, orator, organizer and, in 1969, a 21-year-old murder victim at the hands of Chicago police.
Daniel Kaluuya in a still from the film
Director King makes good on his promise of telling Hampton’s story and the ideology of the BPP through a beautifully-shot tale
One of the things that ran through my mind watching the terrifically thrilling
Judas and the Black Messiah was how young some of the players are in this horrific tragedy. Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, was only 21 when he was assassinated and Bill O’Neal, 17 when he was recruited by the FBI.
That is the age when a certain kind of person is in university, trying to change the world, rebelling without a pause against every injustice, perceived or true. The liberal thinker, who can afford to look at the world with the hope of fixing things through the prism of privilege.
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