{"id":264689,"date":"2021-06-02T14:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/in-praise-of-samuel-l-jacksons-performance-in-jungle-fever\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T14:16:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T11:16:18","slug":"in-praise-of-samuel-l-jacksons-performance-in-jungle-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/in-praise-of-samuel-l-jacksons-performance-in-jungle-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"#In Praise of Samuel L Jackson&#8217;s Performance in Jungle Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4ea67aa230c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4ea67aa230c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/in-praise-of-samuel-l-jacksons-performance-in-jungle-fever\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/in-praise-of-samuel-l-jacksons-performance-in-jungle-fever\/#More_Videos_Like_This\" >More Videos Like This<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#In Praise of Samuel L Jackson&#8217;s Performance in Jungle Fever<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>Welcome to <strong>The Queue<\/strong> \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay that looks at why Samuel L. Jackson\u2019s performance in Jungle Fever rules.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Look, if the Cannes Film Festival\u00a0<em>invents <\/em>a new acting category to recognize your performance, you\u2019re doing something right. In 1991, <strong>Samuel L. Jackson<\/strong> won Cannes\u2019 very first Best Supporting Performance award for his role as the fantastically named Gator Purify in <strong>Spike Lee\u2019<\/strong>s <strong><em>Jungle Fever<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A tense hurricane of racial tension and romance, <em>Jungle Fever\u00a0<\/em>tells of Flipper (Wesley Snipes), a successful, married Black man who contemplates having an affair with his white work colleague (Annabella Sciorra). Flipper\u2019s racial, class, and romantic anxieties are intensified by the presence of Gator (Jackson), his charming older brother whose addiction to crack cocaine leads him to constantly hustle friends and family for money.<\/p>\n<p>The video essay below details what, exactly, makes Jackson\u2019s performance so noteworthy. It also touches upon why, in retrospect, this is the performance that announced the actor\u2019s arrival as one of the most powerful dramatic forces in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>As the essay astutely notes, Jackson himself was only a week out of rehab for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/jun\/30\/amuel--ackson--was-a-drug-addict-out-of-my-mind-but-showed-up-on-time-and-hit-my-marks\">his own struggles with addiction<\/a> when he started work on the film. All told, as Gator, Jackson delivers a scene-stealing performance; an electric, sly, and tragic portrayal of the highs and lows of self-destructive substance abuse.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.14285rem;\">Watch \u201c<strong>Why I Love Samuel L Jackson\u2019s Performance in <em>Jungle Fever<\/em><\/strong>\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.14285rem;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When you\u2019re so talented they make a new award for you\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sjgavZ3DihQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"block-839c096a-2881-4e76-aef1-4e01b79aa34f\">This video essay about Samuel L. Jackson\u2019s performance in <em>Jungle Fever <\/em>comes courtesy of the fine folks at <strong><em>Little White Lies<\/em><\/strong>, a film-obsessed magazine based in the United Kingdom.\u00a0<strong>Leigh Singer <\/strong>wrote and edited the video, and\u00a0<strong>Adam Woodward<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>produced it. You can follow\u00a0<em>Little White Lies\u00a0<\/em>on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lwlies\">here<\/a>. And you can check out their official website\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can subscribe to their YouTube account\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/lwlies\/featured\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_Videos_Like_This\"><\/span>More Videos Like This<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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