The director and cast of the Telluride sensation, adapted from Colson Whitehead’s lauded best-seller, give their first joint interview about how they pulled off what most would’ve considered a fool’s errand: “We’re being asked to do something that you’ve always been told not to do.
This is the delicate power of RaMell Ross’s vision. The Oscar-nominated documentarian makes his fiction debut with this true-story-based tale of two Black teenagers, Elwood and Turner , who bond at an abusive reformatory school in Jim Crow-era Florida. The narrative, punctuated by tragic twists and rendered harrowing in its stark portrait of American racism, stands on its own. But Ross takes things several steps further.
I wanted to know what the story was saying and what Elwood was about. Then the first day: 'Ethan, you’re going to be putting this rig on your body, and it’s going to be looking at your hands.' Wilson: It first hit me when RaMell asked me to look at the camera. Like, Oh, okay. So RaMell, how did you set up the filming between the actors to create this visual approach? Ross: The film is conceived as all one-ers.
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