Mid-way through 12 Years A Slave, I started to ask myself, “Who exactly is this film about?” Was it about Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), later renamed Platt, the talented violinist and ...
In director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, Lupita Nyong’o plays the tortured yet miraculously whimsical slave Patsey. She is the object of the sadistic affections of her master, played by Michael ...
In the 1938 movie “Jezebel,” Julie Marsden, played by Bette Davis, comes out on the porch at her plantation, Halcyon. It is Louisiana, 1853, and she has told her slaves to come sing for her party.