{"id":156500,"date":"2021-01-15T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T12:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/regina-kings-directing-debut-electrifies\/"},"modified":"2021-01-15T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T12:08:46","slug":"regina-kings-directing-debut-electrifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/regina-kings-directing-debut-electrifies\/","title":{"rendered":"#Regina King’s directing debut electrifies"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Regina King’s directing debut electrifies<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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In 1964, black icons Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown gathered in a Florida motel room one evening. This real historical anecdote inspired a 2013 play by Kemp Powers, \u201cOne Night in Miami,\u201d<\/a> and now actor Regina King makes her directorial debut with an assured, electrifying film adaptation. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s an ensemble production of the first order, its four leads taking standout moments at various points as the characters mull the state of the civil rights movement, the power and meaning of their own celebrity, and what the future might hold for them and for the country.<\/p>\n

The occasion? Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) \u2013 soon to change his name to Muhammad Ali \u2014 is in Miami to fight Sonny Liston for the title of World Heavyweight Champion, a matchup the charismatic 22-year-old Clay is widely predicted to lose. His friend Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir) is there for moral and, it turns out, religious support: Clay is planning to convert to Islam. Soul crooner Sam Cooke (\u201cHamilton\u201d alum Leslie Odom Jr.) is in the city after a disastrous gig at Manhattan\u2019s Copacabana club, where a nearly all-white crowd gave him an openly hostile reception. Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) is there for the hyped fight, too \u2014 though not before making a social<\/a> call, en route, to a family friend (Beau Bridges) who ends their friendly porchside chat with a devastatingly casual bit of racism.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s in the power of this latter exchange, early on in the film, that you begin to sense King\u2019s deep feeling for this project, the way she\u2019s adapting and expanding the play while preserving the strength of its dialogue, which stealthily drops emotional bombs throughout. As a performer, we know her to be capable of similar feats of dramatic brilliance, and it\u2019s exciting to watch her transition that mastery to the other side of the camera. \u00a0<\/p>\n

After Clay wins the fight, the friends gather for what the elated Clay and party-loving Cooke think will be a night of celebration. But Malcolm X has other ideas. Ben-Adir\u2019s Malcolm X is full of humanity and melancholy alongside a seriousness so unwavering the other three can\u2019t help teasing him about it. The minister and activist wants to utilize and unify their respective positions as cultural black superstars to benefit his own civil rights movement. But unbeknownst to the group, he and his wife are simultaneously planning their departure from the Nation of Islam, and a shaken Malcolm is looking over his shoulder for men who may be following him.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Odom Jr. stars as Sam Cooke in Regina King\u2019s directorial debut, \u201cOne Night in Miami.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Patti Perret \/ Amazon \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

King\u2019s direction excels at fleshing out these men beyond their most well-known qualities (although those are there too, particularly in Goree\u2019s charming, mischievous egotism in his portrayal of Clay). She gives each actor his moment to shine \u2014 or, in Odom\u2019s case, a handful of them, including a flashback to a stunning a capp<\/a>ella rendition of his song \u201cChain Gang\u201d at a Boston concert. He\u2019s charged and enigmatic, bristling at Malcolm X\u2019s suggestion that he\u2019s a sellout. Hodge\u2019s Brown keeps his swagger low-key but intense, every so often busting out with an outraged and hilarious \u201cI\u2019m motherf\u2013kin\u2019 Jim Brown!\u201d But it\u2019s Ben-Adir who anchors this film. His portrayal of Malcolm X, in the year before the man\u2019s assassination, is layered with heartfelt emotion and stone-cold resolve to put an end to the country\u2019s persecution of black citizens. <\/p>\n

At this moment in time, King\u2019s directorial debut arrives like a thunderclap.<\/p>\n

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Director Regina King works with actor Eli Goree (as Cassius Clay) in \u201cOne Night in Miami.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Patti Perret \/ Amazon \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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