Just saw 12 Years a Slave #monumental #powerful. SUPPORT THIS Weekend. Discussed remaking Roots on cable with Wolper original producer of the miniseries. Imagine Roots opening witb JayZ Oceans. Imagine Roots on Cable rather than network. IMAGINE ROOTS NOW INSTEAD OF 1977. We need powerful truth.blogs.indiewire/shadowandact/freeway-rick-ross-and-producer-mark-wolper-talk-to-s-as-sergio-about-their-controversial-cable-tv-mini-series-project Thanks to Shadow And Act& indieWIRE☆☆☆ Excerpt -Antonio Moore: ...we’re basing this story on the biographical book that Cathy Scott is writing; and this story is the things at the end of The Wire. I mean we’ve had The Wire, but we’ve never had something of this scale and of this context and the depth of history in terms of factual proof based on government documents and what really happened. So I think this story’s scale and depth takes it beyond just being a drug dealer’s story, but into a story with a human element and an American history element which is much different actually.And I believe the show can go far in giving better light to the Trayvons of the world as being seen not just through violent action, so they are not just seen through a light of criminality but instead as people, as Americans. It’s funny how all people can really connect with humanity, when it is displayed in a form they understand. Television is such a powerful medium It can allow people to see other ways of thinking through showing a different form of imagination than they had thought possible. MARK WOLPER(ROOTS PRODUCER): And I’ve never said this to Rick before, but I believe that Rick is neither a hero nor a victim. You usually those stores are making someone a hero or making someone a victim. Rick Ross was neither. Rick took the only thing that was put in front of him and he took it and turned it into a business not knowing that he was pawn. So the story of a pawn is not the story of a hero and it’s not the story of a victim. Because of victim would have died or gotten shot in South Central L.A. A hero would have not done what he did or figured out a way to survive. But he didn’t have that option He had neither of those options. He took what was in front of him. The only thing that was available to him that someone put in front of him. An amazing deal that he didn’t understand why, he didn’t ask why, he just did it. And he because a pawn in something that was bigger than himself. As I said before, be careful where you step because you might be stepping into a bear trap. RICK ROSS: I’m here in Detroit and I just finished speaking to students at Central High School and I delivered a message to these young people that they have never heard before. You see, they don’t understand why they want to be drug dealers. They don’t understand why they want to be thugs. I believe that through the eyes of my story they’re going to underhand where the brutality comes from that they hear on the radio. They’re going to understand why three rappers have taken my name and used it in some form or fashion. And I think my story is going to explain to everybody how they got the point where they are today. And that why this story is a “must” story. And not only is it a “must” story, but it’s going to get told.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:53:40 +0000
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