Jeymes Samuel's 'The Harder They Fall' ends with a twist. Here, the director breaks down the surprisingly personal emotional current underlying the scene.
for years, Nat Love and his gang face off against Buck’s in a showdown that leaves members of both sides dead.
“It was so tear-jerking and gripping,” said Samuel, whose own father passed away when he was young. “In Rufus Buck’s mansion, there’s a picture of a Black man on the wall just by the stairs. And when Rufus Buck is speaking to Nat Love, that picture is between them at times. That painting is of my father. So while they were talking about their father, all of us going through that scene and the crew looking at it on monitors all broke down in tears afterward. It was a really heavy scene to shoot.
“I wanted to tell a story where the antagonist and the protagonist are essentially the same person doing the exact same thing. It’s a never-ending loop of violence that we are sucked into, and I wanted to not preach but to shine a light on what happens all too often in our community.”
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