Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave

[kvz5]

I didn't know Hans Zimmer was scoring this film. It will be interesting to hear his score

Didn't know Hans was in it. I'm definitely in now.

His TRL and Inception score was all over the trailer.

Anyway...

 

[Visiting Arkham]

I always thought Aronofsky and Pitt had bad blood since The Fountain disaster. Glad to see that isn't the case.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Glad to read that the movie is a realistic depiction of Slavery, we've had enough glossing over of that terrible time in American history. I mean lord knows we've had plenty of movies that featured happy slaves to last us for an eternity. Goodness, I couldn't even finish Gone With the Wind. Maybe in the future I'll be in the mood.

Funny that it was a Brit who did it though and by funny I mean kinda depressing. I'll just leave it at that because what I want to say next would be misinterpreted and I don't feel like arguing today. Fassbender and Ejiofor are wonderful actors so I'm sure they did good jobs and I look forward to seeing their performances.

 

[Loki882]

Gone with the Wind was made in the 1930's, so I kind of give it a pass for that, mostly. Also, from an objective point, it's a fantastic movie.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I wasn't calling it a bad film, I said I wasn't in the mood to watch it. I know when it was made and I'm aware of what those times were like. Surely I wasn't implying that I was expecting progressive portrayals of black people in a movie from the 30's. Knowing why something is the way it is doesn't make it any less hard to swallow.

 

[chamber-music]

Glad to read that the movie is a realistic depiction of Slavery, we've had enough glossing over of that terrible time in American history. I mean lord knows we've had plenty of movies that featured happy slaves to last us for an eternity. Goodness, I couldn't even finish Gone With the Wind. Maybe in the future I'll be in the mood.

Funny that it was a Brit who did it though and by funny I mean kinda depressing. I'll just leave it at that because what I want to say next would be misinterpreted and I don't feel like arguing today. Fassbender and Ejiofor are wonderful actors so I'm sure they did good jobs and I look forward to seeing their performances.

Steven McQueen is of Caribbean ancestry and thus a descendant of a slave which is why he said he was looking to make a movie about it.

12 Years Away featurette
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The good thing about McQueen is you know he isn't going to sugar coat it or flinch away from the horrors nor is he going to embellish it with a borderline fetishisation like some filmmakers have over the years.

 

[QBComics]

I am absolutely dying to see this now. Curious if it can hold the Best Actor/Picture buzz.

Wouldn't it be something if McQueen took home Best Director?

 

[Lencho01]

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013...n-about-slavery/?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks

September 7, 2013, 7:30 AM
Brad Pitt Answers ‘The Big Question’ in ’12 Years a Slave’

The Toronto International Film Festival presented Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” Friday night, and after the screening, the director, producers and cast members, including co-star Brad Pitt, came on stage to a standing ovation to participate in a brief Q&A.

McQueen was asked why he pursued the film based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was tricked into accepting a musician job in Washington, D.C., where he was then kidnapped, smuggled down South and sold into slavery. “I just wanted to see that history, that story on film,” Mr. McQueen said. “It’s that simple.”

Pitt both produced and played a supporting role in the film. As Bass, his character offers a measure of kindness to Northup. In one of the few moments of levity during the screening, Pitt’s character tells Northup that he’s originally from Canada, and asks him to guess where Canada is in the world. The Toronto audience cheered and applauded.

During the Q&A, Pitt spoke about working with McQueen. “Steve was the first to ask the big question: Why has there not been more films on American history of slavery? It was the big question and it took a Brit to ask it,” he said.

“I just have to say, if I never get to participate in a film again, this is it for me,” Pitt said.

“12 Years a Slave” gives an unflinching look at Northup’s struggle to survive and the horrific conditions under which he was forced to work. In discussing the physical demands of portraying Northup’s life as a slave, actor Chiwetel Ejiofor said “it was very intense to go to these places…with Steve there to guide that, I think we were free to go to those harder places with a great director at the helm.

Lupita Nyong’o plays Patsey, a young female slave who works alongside Northup on the plantation run by Edwin Epps, played by Michael Fassbender. Together, the three actors perform some of the film’s most harrowing, violent scenes.

“Yes, it was hard to go there, but it was necessary,” Nyong’o said. Fassbender added that the cast and crew was very close on set. “Without one another we wouldn’t have gone to the heights or the places that we’ve gone to,” he said.

 

[SpideyFan866]

I can't wait for this movie. It looks so good.

 

[chamber-music]

Chiwetel Ejiofor first major movie was Amistad. Chiwetel had to drop out of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after his first year to take the role.

 

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Michael K. Williams on breaking into tears while making 12 Years Years A Slave

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[Lencho01]

Reviews...

Review: '12 Years A Slave' Is Among The Year's Best Films

12 YEARS A SLAVE Movie Review: A Shattering Horror Film

 

[dark_b]

the fasssss

http://badassdigest.com/2013/10/15/...will-not-campaign-for-12-years-a-slave-oscar/

 

[Zeus]

Just saw it. I promise you all right now this movie is going to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

My god, what a powerful, unforgettable story. Steve McQueen man just blew it out of the park...Forever remembered, but truly from a cinema standpoint it delivers in full form.

Its not cheesy like some historical stories like 'The Butler', this one will be remembered for a long time.

10/10

I have had a very good sense for which movies will win Best Pic, and this movie just does not try to go for the glory in its depth but it just deserves it.

P.S. Lupita Nyong'o...Remember that name, she will be a breakout star

 

[Slick]

Lupita Nyong'o is beautiful. I can't wait to see this movie.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Reading up on Solomon Northup, he seems to have disappeared after the Civil War.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Glad to read that the movie is a realistic depiction of Slavery, we've had enough glossing over of that terrible time in American history. I mean lord knows we've had plenty of movies that featured happy slaves to last us for an eternity. Goodness, I couldn't even finish Gone With the Wind. Maybe in the future I'll be in the mood.

Funny that it was a Brit who did it though and by funny I mean kinda depressing. I'll just leave it at that because what I want to say next would be misinterpreted and I don't feel like arguing today. Fassbender and Ejiofor are wonderful actors so I'm sure they did good jobs and I look forward to seeing their performances.

No offense ISS, but... There have been many films and tv shows that have tried to show the horror of slavery. Quite a few since the year GWTW came out. Just saying. Now, as each passing year has come said films have been allowed to be more graphic and visceral in their presentation, but they have been made. I can't think of any "Happy Slave" films made in the last, oh, 40 plus years.

 

[roach]

Just came back from this movie and I am stunned. It's a good movie but it's rough.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Just came back from this movie and I am stunned. It's a good movie but it's rough.

That intense? Is Fassbender as much of a monster as I suspect?

 

[roach]

That intense? Is Fassbender as much of a monster as I suspect?

Fassbender is as much as the monster you suspect and more. There's a reason why he isn't doing publicity for this movie and will go relax on an island somewhere...he needs to build up the karma. There is a whipping scene that makes Passion of the Christ look like a trip to Busch Gardens.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Fassbender is as much as the monster you suspect and more. There's a reason why he isn't doing publicity for this movie and will go relax on an island somewhere...he needs to build up the karma. There is a whipping scene that makes Passion of the Christ look like a trip to Busch Gardens.

Yowzer... He seemed kind of, reticent about things on The Daily Show. To get into the mind set of such a person must be spiritually taxing. The review in the Village Voice was kind of damning with faint praise. I am eager to see it myself, though I think I have to be in the right mind set. My 21 year old cousin wants to go see it, so I am thinking of taking him with me. His mother is Puerto Rican and his father is black. I try to get him out to see films on the African American experience in America when I can just so he at least has some appreciation about his roots as it were.

 

[Zeus]

Nah the Passion of the Christ scene was tougher to watch...Although the emotion in this one tough to take in too

 

[chamber-music]

I've already heard backlash and complaints against the violence in this film which Director McQueen has said was necessary because it happened and that he doesn't want to sanitize it or sugar coat what happened.

 

[Slick]

Which he shouldn't have too. Based off Hunger and more specifically Shame. Steve McQueen does not hold back.

 

[terry78]

People don't want to deal with it, basically. Slavery has always been one of those "just get over it, I had nothing to do with it" things people just have a hard time admitting actually happened.