6/28/2023 0 Comments Richard wright native son book![]() But the 1951 movie adaptation was made by French director Pierre Chenal, filmed in South America and exhibited in the U.S. Orson Welles had produced a pared-down stage version on Broadway in 1941 (the same year as Citizen Kane), responding to the book’s enormous social impact. Wright’s purpose - to expose the social conditions of poverty and racism - always fascinated American liberals yet was never in sync with Hollywood. ![]() But that narrative development has always been elided in film versions of Wright’s screed. In the original novel, the story of Bigger’s committing a Dostoevskian crime, facing a Scottsboro-like trial, and being executed made a startling turn: It included a renunciation of the Communist social saviors who had attempted to manipulate Bigger as a victim of capitalist oppression - a situation still relevant to the current usurpation of black protest by the radical Left. That Bigger still represents the most exploited social figure of the 21st century ignites the timing of this re-release. ![]() It’s the first film adaptation of Richard Wright’s celebrated 1940 novel about Bigger Thomas, the archetypal doomed urban black American youth. K ino Lorber Repertory offers a new, uncensored restoration of the 1951 Native Son. ![]()
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