{"id":634384,"date":"2024-09-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-washington-family-adapts-august-wilson\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:00:00","slug":"watch-the-washington-family-adapts-august-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-washington-family-adapts-august-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Washington Family Adapts August Wilson"},"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-6a4d13efc7a06\" 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-6a4d13efc7a06\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-washington-family-adapts-august-wilson\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_The_Washington_Family_Adapts_August_Wilson%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online The Washington Family Adapts August Wilson&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-washington-family-adapts-august-wilson\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Washington_Family_Adapts_August_Wilson%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Washington Family Adapts August Wilson&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_The_Washington_Family_Adapts_August_Wilson%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online The Washington Family Adapts August Wilson&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Washington_Family_Adapts_August_Wilson%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Washington Family Adapts August Wilson&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In August Wilson\u2019s play \u201cThe Piano Lesson\u201d \u2014 revived on Broadway in 2022, adapted with care and much the same cast for the screen by Malcolm Washington \u2014 Berniece hasn\u2019t played the piano since her mother died. It just sits in her living room, reminding her of everything her parents, and their parents before them, endured so that subsequent generations could be free. In literary terms, the piano is a powerful and none-too-subtle symbol, the thing that represents her family\u2019s achievement and sacrifice. Carved into the precious heirloom\u2019s polished wood surface are the faces of her ancestors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Berniece has a brother called Boy Willie, who comes bursting into her house at the top of the play with a plan. Boy Willie believes he can get enough money selling that piano (plus a truck full of watermelons he has parked outside) to buy a piece of the land his family once worked as slaves. He reckons the piano is as much his as Berniece\u2019s, and this is what their parents would have wanted. But the past is present in \u201cThe Piano Lesson,\u201d which is set in 1936, but haunted by history. Upstairs lurks a ghost of the white man whose family \u201cowned\u201d theirs, and from whom their father stole back the all-important piano. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Starring Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington as the two siblings, \u201cThe Piano Lesson\u201d poses one hell of a dilemma: One sibling wants to move forward; the other refuses to let go of what came before. While most of the cast is the same that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared on Broadway, the movie is undeniably Deadwyler\u2019s show. With \u201cThe Piano Lesson,\u201d Wilson wrote one of the great female roles of his career, and in Deadwyler, we get a leading lady who smolders even when silent, finding layers even the author couldn\u2019t have anticipated \u2014 which helps, since there\u2019s a stage-stilted sound to much of the dialogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When Boy Willie and his friend Lymon (Ray Fisher) pop by, looking like they\u2019ve figured it all out, Berniece is upstairs in bed. Their uncle Doaker (Samuel L. Jackson, who gives one of his best, and least bombastic, screen performances) sizes them up and laughs, \u201cBerniece ain\u2019t gonna sell that piano.\u201d Every time she looks at the instrument, Berniece sees the tears her mother shed over it. Her father died for the piano, pursued by a white mob and burned alive after he and two accomplices \u201crecovered\u201d it three decades earlier. The heist, if you want to call it that, opens the film, illuminated by the light of red, white and blue fireworks. That choice renders the movie instantly cinematic, while traumatic flashbacks later in the film serve to open up Wilson\u2019s one-room play. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Seeing as how \u201cThe Piano Lesson\u201d deals with themes of family legacy, it\u2019s fitting that another family came together to make it. As you may have guessed, Malcolm Washington \u2014 making his feature directing debut \u2014 is the son of acting legend Denzel Washington, who found one of his great roles starring in another Wilson adaptation, \u201cFences.\u201d John David Washington, who played Boy Willie in the Broadway version as well, is seven years older than his brother Malcolm, whose sister Katia joins Denzel among the film\u2019s producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    One could speculate about how the film\u2019s themes resonate with the Washingtons, though \u201cThe Piano Lesson\u201d possesses a universality unique among Wilson\u2019s 10 Pittsburgh-set plays \u2014 the \u201cCentury Cycle,\u201d in which the writer captured the full range of African American success and struggle, with one play per decade. While all 10 are performed regularly on stages around America, Pulitzer-winning \u201cThe Piano Lesson\u201d encompasses the greatest span of time, drawing the spirits of previous generations into the picture \u2014 not just Sutter\u2019s ghost, lurking upstairs, but the family members whose faces appear on the heirloom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Though set in the \u201930s, it speaks to decades of progress, contrasting those who stayed behind in Mississippi and other Southern states (represented here by the Boy Willie character) with those who participated in the Great Migration to the North, as Berniece and her daughter Maretha (Skylar Aleece Smith) did. It critiques a racist system of incarceration, which Boy Willie experienced, and the even darker legacy of vigilante justice, which claimed not just their father, but also Berniece\u2019s husband, Crawley (whose backstory is less clearly explained).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    More significant still, \u201cThe Piano Lesson\u201d personifies the white men who owned or otherwise oppressed their family in the form of Sutter, who haunts them still. We\u2019re told the old bigot fell down a well, but Berniece suspects that her brother must have pushed him. Boy Willie insists it was the \u201cGhosts of the Yellow Dog,\u201d introducing yet another supernatural dimension to the plot. Malcolm Washington gives us Sutter\u2019s ghost, but leaves any other avenging forces to our imagination. Instead, he sticks mostly to the living room, where Doaker and old friend Wining Boy (a terrific Michael Potts) trade stories. The two also sing, bringing fresh life into a film so preoccupied with the past. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In the end, \u201cThe Piano Lesson\u201d feels talkier than necessary, considering all the visual elements Wilson gave Washington to work with: There\u2019s the ghost upstairs, but also the spirits watching over the family via the piano. The film comes alive as Lymon buys a new silk suit, following the young men out on the town to the Hill District\u2019s legendary Crawford Grill. Boy Willie has his ideas for the future, but Berniece has options too, as embodied by the ambitious preacher (Corey Hawkins) who reluctantly agrees to bless her house. It will take more than that to rid the ghost. 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