{"id":10261,"date":"2019-10-30T12:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:22:08","slug":"queen-slim-not-bonnie-clyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/30\/queen-slim-not-bonnie-clyde\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEEN &#038; SLIM Not Bonnie &#038; Clyde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2019-10-30\/queen-and-slim-melina-matsoukas-lena-waithe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from the LA Times (opens in a new tab)\">from the LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas don\u2019t want you comparing \u2018Queen &amp; Slim\u2019 to \u2018Bonnie and Clyde\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/sonaiya-kelley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">SONAIYA KELLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/c2ec114\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1800x1200+0+0\/resize\/840x560!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fed%2Fbc%2F616df5b045c0ac27afeb190fd24f%2Fduo-edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lena Waithe, left, and Melina Matsoukas at the Underground Museum in Los Angeles.\"\/><figcaption>Lena Waithe, left, and Melina Matsoukas at the Underground Museum in Los Angeles.(Francine Orr\/Los Angeles Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For \u201cQueen &amp; Slim,\u201d screenwriter Lena Waithe\u2019s meditation on race relations and police brutality, director Melina Matsoukas drew visual inspiration from sources as diverse as Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s 2001 dramedy \u201cY Tu Mam\u00e1 Tambi\u00e9n\u201d and Spike Lee\u2019s 1989 classic \u201cDo the Right Thing.\u201d But the biggest influence came straight from YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of the key references for me has been real life, authentic struggles in the black community,\u201d said Matsoukas, who makes her feature debut with the movie, in theaters on Thanksgiving. \u201cI watched a lot of YouTube videos of black people being pulled over by the police or encountering law enforcement and it not necessarily ending well. Unfortunately, there are so many of those videos, but they were a major influence in how I wanted to approach shooting the opening scene.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starring Daniel Kaluuya and newcomer Jodie Turner-Smith, our protagonists (known simply as Slim and Queen until the end) are forced on the run within the first 10 minutes of the movie. \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d author James Frey pitched the idea for the opening to Waithe at a party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was like, \u2018Yo, I have this idea for a movie that I can\u2019t write,\u2019\u201d she remembered. \u201cAnd I was like \u2018What\u2019s that?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frey described a scenario in which a black couple driving home from a first date are pulled over by a cop and forced to kill him in self-defense. \u201cI was like, \u2018You\u2019re right, you shouldn\u2019t write that,\u2019\u201d said Waithe. \u201cBut then we exchanged information. I think he thought he was never going to hear from or see me again, but it just stayed with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2019-10-30\/queen-and-slim-melina-matsoukas-lena-waithe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at LAT (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the LA Times Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas don\u2019t want you comparing \u2018Queen &amp; Slim\u2019 to \u2018Bonnie and Clyde\u2019 By\u00a0SONAIYA KELLEY For \u201cQueen &amp; Slim,\u201d screenwriter Lena Waithe\u2019s meditation on race relations and police brutality, director Melina Matsoukas drew visual inspiration from sources as diverse as Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s 2001 dramedy \u201cY Tu Mam\u00e1 Tambi\u00e9n\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}