Native Son

Native Son (1986)

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Erscheinungsdatum
1986-12-24
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (14)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 51 Min.
Genres
Drama
Regie
Jerrold Freedman

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Basiert auf: Native Son

Native Son is a 1986 American drama film directed by Jerrold Freeman, and starring Carroll Baker, Victor Love, Matt Dillon and Oprah Winfrey. The film is based on the 1940 novel Native Son, written by Richard Wright.

Development

Richard Wesley wrote the script. According to Judith Michaelson of the Los Angeles Times, not only was the violence reduced, but the emphasis on Communism was also "muted" compared to the book.

Victor Love stated that his appearance and voice not being "street" meant that he did not feel he was initially seriously considered for the role. He was auditioning for Othello, which he did not get, when he was called to perform as Bigger. Love felt that Wright did not really mean for Bigger Thomas to be played unsympathetically and that instead he was afraid to ask people to care for Bigger.

According to Julia Wright, the daughter of Richard Wright, there were shoots depicting Bessie's death, but the filmmakers did not complete a shoot that they liked. The film producers ultimately removed the murder of Bessie to make the protagonist more sympathetic to audiences. Freeman opposed this and argued that this interfered with how the character becomes increasingly damaged in the source work.

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