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Top 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About Wes Anderson Movies
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Wes Anderson’s interest in movies began when he was just a child. He would enlist the aid of his brothers to make short films using his father’s super 8mm camera. Although his parents’ divorce affected his grades, the budding filmmaker threw himself into his passion for film. He put himself through school by working as a part-time projectionist, graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in philosophy. One of Anderson’s university friends, Owen Wilson, gave him a sense of direction. The two would go on to write their first feature together, Bottle Rocket. Despite the movie’s less-than-stellar reception, Anderson’s endearing tales and quirky visuals soon found an a
Thuson Mbedu as Cora in The Underground Railroad
In four films Barry Jenkins has established himself as a high artist of the Black American experience. Gaining heft and budget from his success with
Moonlight and
If Beale Street Could Talk, Jenkins signed up both Brad Pitt’s Plan B Pictures and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon to tackle one of the biggest projects on race in America, the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning 2016 novel,
The Underground Railroad.
While it may be tempting to see in Barry Jenkins’ Tolstoyan adaptation of
The Underground Railroad, the influences of painters Julius Block, Kerry James Marshall and various film directors, as the New Yorker did in its review this week. All of us do project a bit of our own influences into likenesses we recognize. I just did with Tolstoy, for it’s clear to me that both Jenkins and Whitehead saw the dying light of a way of illegitimate life in their big canvas stories.
Jones notes that the first thing people tend to get wrong about the underground railroad is assuming that a series of subterranean trains, tunnels and platforms branched out like the London Underground or New York subway. It was, in fact, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by thousands of enslaved people to flee from the south to free states and Canada in the early to mid-19th century.
âWhen people hear ârailroadâ, they automatically think it was a train,â Jones adds. âThe underground railroad was just a metaphor for a movement of people to be able to organise a network of abolitionists and freedom seekers.â