{"id":10403,"date":"2019-12-02T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10403"},"modified":"2019-12-29T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:49:13","slug":"queen-slim-for-me-this-is-a-battle-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/02\/queen-slim-for-me-this-is-a-battle-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEEN & SLIM – \u201cFor me, this is a battle cry.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from BET<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lena Waithe Explains Police Brutality Focus In \u2018Queen & Slim\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, this is a battle cry.\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Written by Alexis Reese<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With one of the most anticipated Black films of 2019,\u00a0Queen & Slim<\/em>, to be released before the start of the new year, producer and writer\u00a0Lena Waithe<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is spinning the traditional police brutality narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sitting down with BET Digital, Waithe speaks to the importance of the film, her vision behind the screenplay, the current state of America\u2019s police force and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drama follows two strangers, Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith<\/strong>) and Slim (Daniel Kaluuya<\/strong>), who find themselves responsible for the death of a police officer after going on a first date. Waithe transformed a small anecdote she got from her co-writer\u00a0James Frey\u00a0<\/strong>into a fully formed narrative,\u00a0<\/strong>then brought on Melina Matsoukas as director. With police brutality at an all-time high, the need for the film was urgent if not crucial.\u00a0\u201cI think for Black people, police have never represented to us an organization that protects or serves us. We almost feel more oppressed by the police. That is something that is an issue and is a problem in our society, because we are citizens just like anyone else. But we feel policed, you can\u2019t live freely in that way,\u201d Waithe says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at BET<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from BET Lena Waithe Explains Police Brutality Focus In \u2018Queen & Slim\u2019 \u201cFor me, this is a battle cry.\u201d Written by Alexis Reese With one of the most anticipated Black films of 2019,\u00a0Queen & Slim, to be released before the start of the new year, producer and writer\u00a0Lena Waithe\u00a0is spinning the traditional police brutality narrative. […]<\/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-10403","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\/10403","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=10403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}