In our society, if someone disagrees with you, you minimize them from your feed, block them, not hear them out. We’re at home and have to watch those eight minutes and 46 seconds [the length of the George Floyd video] and the time to respond to it that I don’t think we had at this level of widespread participation before. If you were working 12-15 hour shifts in previous events, it’d be harder to go to the protests and engage. You have a small contingency of African Americans, Latino, and Asian police officers who have spoken up and want to speak about this issue from within, but they’ve been silenced. The film came together after the highly controversial Trayvon Martin decision, after George Zimmerman got off, Green began to wonder “what if I was Trayvon Martin on my way home?” and developed his script around this idea. Colin’s still without a job. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. You have literally the entire world’s global market shut down, but the only thing that seems to be continuing is unemployment and the killing of Black men and women. That leads them to discover people like Ramsey Orta or Philando Castile’s girlfriend.
We have the power to pull out our cellphones and record as long as we aren’t interfering with the arrest. Right now, we live in a culture where everything is being recorded and scrutinized. Where’s our black “Italian Job” or Black “Thomas Crown Affair”? Of course there were many protests for them. It wasn’t shaking, it wasn’t moving, it wasn’t provoking the police officers or trying to tell a story of its own the way a body camera would. It leads to silence and complicity than action.I think the movie shows you that silence is not the answer and each individual has a choice to make about that. We have to knock down the wall to play in these spaces.Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft.Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox All rights reserved. It would be harder to watch that thing people would be telling you to watch. Here’s a man doing everything right and he’s still getting killed.If I was a bystander and seeing that, I would want to stand still and keep the camera steady as much as possible. Reinaldo Marcus Green Looks Back on Confronting Police Brutality in ‘Monsters and Men’ "Monsters and Men," now streaming for free, was a response to the murder of Eric Garner.
You just watched this unfold in a way you can’t say for other videos. Wij willen hier een beschrijving geven, maar de site die u nu bekijkt staat dit niet toe. This week, Green took a break from his editing suite to discuss how “Monsters and Men,” which Neon We now have widespread participation brought on by the fact that many people were unemployed and at home. Where is the first Black-led “Gravity” space movie? That doesn’t mean you can’t hear my voice telling the police officer to please stop; it doesn’t mean I couldn’t ask somebody else to record while I’m recording to get various angles; it doesn’t mean I can’t call 911.
Similar to John David’s character, many of these officers risk losing a lot by doing that. That production has been halted like everything else, but Green continues to chip away at “Good Joe Bell” (with a little help from executive producer Cary Fukunaga). We knew it was going to lead to difficult conversations, but that was the purpose of the film. We want to tell our stories, so primarily those stories will be within the black and Latino communities, but it’s not limited to that. We have a lot of love stories, suspense stories, movies we can make that don’t get made. He can have Black people, Asian people, it doesn’t matter. There’s this assumption that Black filmmakers can only do Black content. This is definitely the time to pull out our cellphones.It’s sort of a similar situation to what’s happening with Colin Kaepernick. Reinaldo Marcus Green is an American director, producer and writer, best known for known for his 2018 film, Monsters and Men, which won the Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature at the Sundance Film Festival. Those police officers stories need to be brought to the forefront, to put a real coalition in place, and make sure these police officers are truly heard. Laws obviously have to change. I think it will be important to open up opportunities for filmmakers who want to tell universal stories and may not necessarily want to focus on social issues.At the same time, Black stories aren’t going to go away, but we have to figure out how to make them fresh and relevant moving forward.
Give me an opportunity to make my black Kubrick movie. It shouldn’t all be negative. Before the pandemic hit, he had recently wrapped production on the Mark Wahlberg bullying story “Good Joe Bell.” While the film was accepted into this year’s Sundance, Green and his team decided to hold off for the fall festivals while tweaking the final edit; in the meantime, Green started shooting “King Richard,” a biopic of Venus and Serena Williams’ father starring no less than Will Smith. Obviously that wasn’t the case for George Floyd, but it can be used to save lives. We can’t label ourselves. The same union designed to protect them is set to protect the officers that have just been charged. We need to hear and understand each other so we can have an approach to move past this.