{"id":10293,"date":"2019-11-10T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10293"},"modified":"2019-11-24T18:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T01:05:48","slug":"queen-slim-on-racism-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/10\/queen-slim-on-racism-police-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEEN & SLIM On Racism, Police Brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Queen & Slim\u2019 a tale of outlaws, but also a love story and a meditation on racism and police brutality<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0SONAIYA KELLEY, LOS ANGELES TIMES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) and Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) in \u201cQueen & Slim,\u201d directed by Melina Matsoukas. (Andre D. Wagner\/Universal Pictur \/ HANDOUT)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For \u201cQueen & 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 Cuaron\u2019s 2001 dramedy \u201cY Tu Mama Tambien\u201d and Spike Lee\u2019s 1989 classic \u201cDo the Right Thing.\u201d But the biggest influence came from YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\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

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

\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

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from The Chicago Tribune \u2018Queen & Slim\u2019 a tale of outlaws, but also a love story and a meditation on racism and police brutality By\u00a0SONAIYA KELLEY, LOS ANGELES TIMES For \u201cQueen & 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 […]<\/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":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293","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=10293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}