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I watched it but preferred the National Geographic's telling of Aretha's story with Cynthia Erivo

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OMG.  so i wasnt a fan of cynthia doing it and i put it off for year but over the summer i reluctantly watched it and was HOOKED.

I HATE when they get these British actors to play real Americans. like when she played harriet tubman. i just dont like it. 

there are so many actors here in America but she slayed.

I also think the mini series benefited from it being like ten, 8 hour episodes or something like that.  there was alot we saw in that but yeah i enjoyed it.

I totally understand how you feel about the outsourcing of talent... but it had to be hard to find someone to embody Aretha's nuances and  personality traits as well as have the ability to sing her music. I think they struck gold with Cynthia. I appreciated her approach to the role over Jennifer's. I feel like Jennifer was playing Jennifer playing Aretha. And I do agree, it was brilliant for National Geographic to make it a series. They had the opportunity to really flush out the timeline of events in Aretha's life. The movie was slow and rushed at the same time.

I wish Aretha biopic was done more  like Elvis film. It focused more on a time in his life instead trying to cram an entire life into 2 hours
, those biopics just don't work anymore. 

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I watched it but preferred the National Geographic's telling of Aretha's story with Cynthia Erivo

!!!!!!!

OMG.  so i wasnt a fan of cynthia doing it and i put it off for year but over the summer i reluctantly watched it and was HOOKED.

I HATE when they get these British actors to play real Americans. like when she played harriet tubman. i just dont like it. 

there are so many actors here in America but she slayed.

I also think the mini series benefited from it being like ten, 8 hour episodes or something like that.  there was alot we saw in that but yeah i enjoyed it.

I totally understand how you feel about the outsourcing of talent... but it had to be hard to find someone to embody Aretha's nuances and  personality traits as well as have the ability to sing her music. I think they struck gold with Cynthia. I appreciated her approach to the role over Jennifer's. I feel like Jennifer was playing Jennifer playing Aretha. And I do agree, it was brilliant for National Geographic to make it a series. They had the opportunity to really flush out the timeline of events in Aretha's life. The movie was slow and rushed at the same time.

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yep.  alot of movies these days are rushed now especially book to movies.  they leave SOOO much out most the time.  i think mini series are they BEST. you get so much more info.

I def respect the work Cynthia did.

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The slave movies do need to stop though. There's enough of them out now I don't see what's the point of continuing. I know these yts out here are enjoying seeing us in chains again
We need more movies showing our versatility

i agree with this.. i HATE seeing them over and over again. 

how many times can we see a slave be hung or sold at a damn auction house.

question

how many "slave movies" have come out within the past 5-10 years?

Either I'm clearly missing this massive influx of mainstream movies about slavery

Release after release after release ... just flying over my head ...

Or any time a period piece on Black History comes out which involves slavery, there's complaints and discomfort  about it - so much to the point where things get inflated and exaggerated  .

 

just from a quick google search:

Free State of Jones,Descendant, Emancipation, birth of a nation , and harriett.


also you have to remember. not everyone feels the same way about them as you.  it makes me feel uncomfortable, having to watch us be slaves and and serve white ppl like movies like the help.  i have seen enough of them personally.  I think its time for different types of feels.

so 5 movies within the past decade.

and yes, stories about slavery make me uncomfortable too, with the exception of Harriett which I actually found very inspiring and uplifting for the most part.

and I acknowledged the discomfort I had when watching "When They See Us" and said I would never watch it again.

But that doesn't mean that the story of those 5 men shouldn't be told and put out there, just cuz I'm uncomfortable watching it and find it to be very triggering.

Two things can be true at the same time

As in: Watching "When They See Us" is a horrible experience for me - emotionally.
But, their story should be told.

well there have been MORE. i just picked a few cause i was in a hurry yesterday.

you make a good point about "when they see us" THAT made me uncomfortable but YES that story needed to be told. cause it hadnt been told before to my knowledge in film form.  slave movies and such have been told over and over. not just slave movies but movies set in 1940-1960 with white only signs, lynchings, us getting beat and killed for being black. I just personally dont like the feeling those gives me and tho our world isnt the best today, I am happy to not have grown up back then.


time for some new type of black movies. give me a Harry Potter type movie with black kids.  or a fun twilight type of movie etc. 

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I was JUST about to say. Where are all these slave movies yall go on about? Yall love to claim the slave movies flood the airwaves

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