Today we talk about the movie Judas and the Black Messiah.
Title Judas and the black messiah / Jesus is my homeboy (2021), alias Jesus is my accomplice / Judas and the Black Messiah ( Jesus was my brother / Jesus was my companion.
I noticed the film last year, when I saw the foreign media select "The Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021", listing a total of 45 films. Judas and the Black Messiah is among them.
If you know a little about the biblical story, you should not be unfamiliar with the "Judah" and "Messiah" in the title.
Judas was the traitor who betrayed Jesus for 30 silver coins. The Messiah is another name for Jesus. The Messiah is derived from the Hebrew word māshīah, which originally meant "anointed one", and the Greek translation of it into christos leads to "Christ", so that "Messiah" is "Christ".
But at that time, the translation of this film was called "Jesus is My Accomplice", and my first impression was that it was a fantasy movie of God's Stick Fight, and I was not in a hurry to watch it, and it was a few months after this release.
If translated literally according to the original name, the translation of "Judas and the Black Savior" would be more straightforward. This can directly name the relationship between the characters through the title of the film, and does not give people the wrong impression.
I hope that everyone will not be misled by the translation and miss this good film.
Judas and the Black Messiah tells the story of Fred Hampton, vice president of the Black Panther Party, a black-and-white society in the United States, who joined the social movement in the 1960s until he was murdered by the U.S. government.
The Black Panther Party is the closest worker liberation movement in recent American history and a social organization that has been severely suppressed by the U.S. government.
In 1966, the Black Panther Party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California. They oppose the capitalist U.S. government and advocate socialism through the long-term movement of the common people. They formed their own armies, transformed black communities, provided free breakfast, education, and health care to poor children, and tried to fight capitalism through organized movements.
They armed themselves in accordance with Chairman Mao's teaching that "power comes out of the barrel of a gun." The Black Panther Party's funding sources are also interesting — through the resale of Mao Xuan. 20 cents are purchased, $1 is sold, earn the difference and then buy a gun.
The Black Panther Party is organized, has a program, and is guided by the ideas of great men. All this frightens the capitalists. The US government's disregard for legal constraints and exhaustive measures to strangle the Black Panther Party shows the correctness of the Black Panther Party.
In order to eliminate the Black Panther Organization as quickly as possible, the US government has used both soft and hard measures, and all kinds of dirty means have been used.
Tough tactics, as shown in the film, are just petty tricks, in order to disintegrate and divide the Black Panther Party from within, the FBI has successively installed informants and installed several murders on the informants. In this way, the FBI can firmly control the informants on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can damage the image of the Black Panther Party.
It can be described as extremely vicious.
Soft knives are magical facts in reality.
Cartoonists were busy creating the comic strip "Black Panther" according to the Black Panther Party. The noble king who came out of the primitive African savannah Wakanda gave the black big brothers a kind of illusory illusion, as if the black ancestors had the black technology and mysterious vibration gold of the rich and invincible, and shouted "Wakanda forever" with their hands on their chests to obtain "strength".
This consumes the will of the Blacks on a cultural level. A few years later, he even devoted himself to the filming of a "Black Panther", without stingy praise, and coaxed the big black brothers to be happy.
Occasionally, when the oppression is overheated, it will urgently open the black life expensive and zero-yuan purchase activities to provide a way for the black people to release their emotions in a targeted way.
Anyway, as long as there is no organization, no program, and no black people make a fuss, everything is easy to say.
It is precisely in this way that fred Hampton's greatness is revealed.
He was well aware of the crux of the matter, that Martin Luther King Jr.'s model of nonviolence was undetermined, and that blacks did nothing when they held a gun to the black man's head. Only by arming yourself can you liberate yourself.
The Black Panther Party chose the right way to fight, which made the U.S. government afraid. The FBI's sparing no effort to denigrate and suppress it proves the correctness of the Black Panther Party.
The Black Panther Party has even been able to unite all the forces that can be united, and minorities such as Red Neck and Puerto Rico are the objects of their unity. Anyone with a bit of a brain can see that this is an extremely powerful force.
Daniel Kalua played the character state well. In his speech, he made generous statements, was domineering, and shy and introverted and cautious in front of his lover.
He was saddled with the responsibility of a black savior. He took over the banner of his predecessor, united class brothers and partners, and continued to lead the organization in the struggle, putting personal life and death aside. In him, we can see a very familiar temperament of a revolutionary martyr. Sadly, his life stopped at the age of 21.
Leikith Steinfeld, who plays William O'Neill, is another major actor in the film.
He said in an interview that he needed treatment after playing William O'Neal.
After all, if the villain is too good to play, it will have a lot of negative effects on the actor.
The calculating capitalists are extremely skilled at playing a murderous trick.
Not only to put eyeliner on the Black Panther Party, but also to divide the blacks into mutual hatred. William O'Neill was first used as eyeliner and inserted into the Panther Party, which, after the Near-Demise, took William O'Neill out of the corpse and squeezed out the last drop of surplus value.
Although his uncle claimed he was "full of guilt" for working with the FBI, William O'Neill claimed in several interviews that he was "not loyal" to the Black Panther Party.
William O'Neill was found dead on January 15, 1990, after a crash on Interstate 290, at the age of 40. Before the crash, William O'Neill tried to jump out of a second-floor window, but was stopped. Although his death was ruled a suicide, his wife claimed it was an accident.
Whether he felt guilt or not, I felt that this scourge was not a pity to die. What is more hateful than the devil is the second devil, and what is more hateful than the enemy is the traitor. Everyone is creating a better tomorrow for their comrades, but some people want to be the dog legs of the enemy.
This film takes place at the same time as another film, The Trial of the Seven Gentlemen of Chicago. Both films were nominated for best picture at the 93rd Academy Awards.
In Judah and the Black Messiah, it is mentioned that Bobby Sear, the president of the Black Panther Party, was humiliated in court.
The murder of Fred Hampton is also mentioned in The Trial of the Seven Gentlemen of Chicago.
Fred Hampton's widow and widow
A few clips from the film:
1. The powder bill O'Neill gave to Fred Hampton was actually seconal, a barbiturate used to treat insomnia.
2. In the scene where Fred Hampton is killed, Fred Hampton sleeps in a well-covered bed. In real life, he slept on a bare mattress.
3. The Oscar allows each voting member to decide for himself which category the actor's performance belongs to, whether it is a starring actor or a supporting role. This brings us to the seemingly two-character setting of Judas and the Black Messiah, in which both protagonists Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
4. "Judas and the Black Messiah" was ultimately won by Daniel Kalua for Best Supporting Actor and the song "Fight for You" for Best Original Song.
5. This is the first film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture by more than two African-American producers. It was also the first best film nomination by an all-black producer.
6. During the raid by the Chicago Police Department and the FBI, the police fired 80 shots, while the Black Panther party members fired only one shot in total, and this shot came from the muscle contraction after the members were killed by the police.
One of the most promising struggles,
Hanged for going the right way.
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