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There’s a reason that The Equalizer (starring Queen Latifah) is earning around double the viewers of Clarice (starring comparative unknown Rebecca Breeds).ĭenzel Washington talks to Ethan Hawke in a scene from the film 'Training Day', 2001. I hope they find someone resembling a “draw” as opposed to betting entirely on the IP. It will at least be another example of Black faces in conventionally white spaces, which was somewhat the point of Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country and its genre-hopping structure. I hope the folks who ignored Motherless Brooklyn in theaters and then complained that Hollywood doesn’t release any movies for adults as they binged HBO’s Perry Mason prequel will sample this new Easy Rawlins show. Find more podcasts you will love Frolic.Rami Malek, Denzel Washington and Jared Leto in John Lee Hancock's 'The Little Things' Warner Bros.Ĭonversely, no one expected Edward Norton’s (surprisingly light) Motherless Brooklyn to catch on theatrically in late 2019, just as Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto’s The Little Things was a proverbial January dump that actually got received as an Oscar contender for its one main white actor.

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Starring: Denzel Washington (Easy,) Tom Sizemore (DeWitt Albright,) Jennifer Beals (Daphne Monet,) Don Cheadle (Mouse,) Maury Chaykin (Matthew Terrell, Joseph Lattimore (Frank Carter,) Terry Kinney (Todd Carter,) Mel Winkler (Joppy,) Lisa Nicole Carson (Coretta James,) and Jernard Burks (Dupree Brouchard.).

The biggest changes between the book and movie.

Race relations in Los Angeles in post WW2.

Who is Daphne and what secrets does she keep?īetween the original story and the 1995 adaptation–which did we prefer? He is assigned by a man named DeWitt Adams to find a white woman, Daphne Monet, who is fascinated by jazz music and black culture.Īlong the way, several people associated with Easy wind up dead and the Mayor’s office seems to be in on it. The setting is post WW2 in Los Angeles where army veteran Ezekial “Easy” Rawlins (Washington) Easy is a black man dealing with the racism of the era which was more overt. In continuation of African American History Month, the Margos are taking on an old-fashioned mystery with Devil in a Blue Dress, which started as a novel by Walter Mosley & later was adapted into a film starring Denzel Washington.

Walter Mosely’s 1990 Novel Vs the 1995 Denzel Washington Film

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