Between the world and me publisher6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() There’s Morton’s funereal pronouncement in the film, “Son, I’m telling you this in your fifteenth year. We were right on the heels of George Floyd’s and Breonna Taylor’s murders, and the protests that erupted, and this was our opportunity, with art to have that conversation.”Īnd what a conversation it is. We wanted to have an urgent conversation about today, about this time. ![]() “We felt that they were the perfect partners. Forbes said the killing of Floyd this summer and the protests that followed led the production company to take the initiative to bring the project to the screen. Though written five years ago, Coates’ book is a chilling account of the deadly nature of Black American life at the hands of the police and serves as a preview of the tragic shootings that would come. ![]() So it was about how do we use these mediums to tell a story.” Because of film, we had an opportunity to story-tell through other images to use archival, different kinds of music, animation, visual texture. “It was always about how we build a myriad of different voices people of different ages, experiences, within Ta-Nehisi’s voice. “It was such a poignant, first-person narrative text that Ta-Nehesi had written, that I wanted to take and ultimately translate that into a series of monologues that I knew would sit in various voices on their bodies,” Forbes said by phone. ![]()
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