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But “The Butler,” which arrives in theaters Friday, is the first major feature film to capture the full sweep and scope of the civil rights movement, including its global reverberations. Similar scenes have been portrayed as backdrops or perfunctory montages in previous films. and eventually joining the Panthers himself. Nixon plotting against the Black Panthers, his son Louis (David Oyelowo) is sitting in at a Nashville lunch counter, joining the Freedom Riders, crossing paths with Martin Luther King Jr. Johnson preparing to sign the 1965 voting rights act and Richard M. Eisenhower grappling with school desegregation, Lyndon B. But it also chronicles the burgeoning movement taking shape on the streets far beyond 1600 Pennsyl vania Ave. (The film is based on a Washington Post article written by Wil Haygood in 2008.)ĭirected by Daniels and featuring a cavalcade of stars in cameo roles, “The Butler” largely focuses on Gaines’s family life and interactions with the presidential families he serves. The first out of the gate will be “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” which stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African American man born a sharecropper’s son in Georgia, who comes to Washington in the 1950s and eventually serves eight U.S.
But there’s been one glaring exception: The breadth and depth of the civil rights movement - the most influential social and political force of the 20th century, not just on American life but throughout the world - has never been represented in the dominant narrative medium of our age.Ī number of films about the civil rights movement are in various stages of development. Kennedy’s assassination to Watergate and women’s liberation.
Over the past several decades, important feature films have been made about most of the historical and cultural touchstones of post-World War II America, from the Vietnam War and John F.
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