One night in Miami.....
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:28 pm
four legends gathered in a small room, discussing their place in America and in the ongoing fight for their Civil Rights.
Cassius Clay was the newly crowned Heavyweight Champion of the World, Jim Brown was the best football player in the NFL and had just filmed his first movie, Sam Cooke was a top notch music star invited to play at a top Miami hotel, but told that not only could he not stay at the hotel, but he couldn't even enter the place through the front door, and Malcom X was emerging as the alternative to Martin Luther KIng's non-violence movement.
Only Brown is alive today, and I have no idea what he thinks of the movie, but the filmed version is amazing.
I was expecting a black version of The Million Dollar Quartet, but was quite taken by this film.
Sometimes we forget that history is composed of actual people and that no matter how mythical their lives became, people are people.
Cassius Clay was the newly crowned Heavyweight Champion of the World, Jim Brown was the best football player in the NFL and had just filmed his first movie, Sam Cooke was a top notch music star invited to play at a top Miami hotel, but told that not only could he not stay at the hotel, but he couldn't even enter the place through the front door, and Malcom X was emerging as the alternative to Martin Luther KIng's non-violence movement.
Only Brown is alive today, and I have no idea what he thinks of the movie, but the filmed version is amazing.
I was expecting a black version of The Million Dollar Quartet, but was quite taken by this film.
Sometimes we forget that history is composed of actual people and that no matter how mythical their lives became, people are people.