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Share this Rating Title: Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Learn more More Like This. Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance The Shape of Water La La Land I Manchester by the Sea A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies. The King's Speech Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Kevin age 9 Herman 'Caheei McGloun Portable Boy 1 Keomi Givens Portable Boy 2 Eddie Blanchard Portable Boy 3 Rudi Goblen Gee as Rudi Goblin Ashton Sanders Edit Storyline Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented.
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This is the story of a lifetime. Edit Details Official Sites: Edit Did You Know? Ali appears in Predators , while Rhodes stars in The Predator Goofs At around 1h 04m 30s, when Chiron is entering the school and opens the second door pushing the emergency handle, the scene is instantly cut to show the room from the inside to see him enter, but, when he does enter, the door can clearly be seen being pulled, not pushed.
Although the original play contained three parts, they ran simultaneously so that the audience would experience a day in the life of Little, Chiron and Black concurrently. The result was a screenplay that reflected the similar upbringings of Jenkins and McCraney. The character Juan was based on the father of McCraney's brother, who was also a childhood "defender" of McCraney, as Juan was for Chiron. Jenkins looked for financing for the film during , finding success after sharing the script with the executives of Plan B Entertainment at the year's Telluride Film Festival.
Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B Entertainment became producers of the film, [16] while A24 undertook to finance it and handle worldwide distribution, which marked the company's first production.
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Different actors portrayed Chiron and Kevin in each chapter of the film. Ashton Sanders was cast in the role of teen Chiron. Naomie Harris was initially reluctant to portray Paula, stating that she did not want to play a stereotypical depiction of a black woman. She related her experiences of bullying to the addicts' attempts of escaping trauma. Romanski proposed Juan be played by Mahershala Ali , who had a role in one of her previously produced films, Kicks. Jenkins was hesitant when casting Ali due to his role as Remy Danton in House of Cards ; however, he was convinced after witnessing Ali's acting range and understanding of his character.
Filming began on October 14, , in Miami , Florida. Liberty Square , a housing project located in the neighborhood of Liberty City , was chosen as one of the primary locations as both McCraney and Jenkins grew up in the area. It was the first time someone had come to their community and wanted to represent it onscreen, and since Barry Jenkins had grown up in that area, there was this sense of pride and this desire to support him. You felt this love from the community that I've never felt in any other location, anywhere in the world, and it was so strange that it happened in a place where people were expecting the complete opposite.
During filming, Jenkins made sure that the three actors for Chiron did not meet each other until after filming to avoid any imitations of one another. Jenkins worked with cinematographer and longtime friend James Laxton , who previously shot Medicine for Melancholy. As a result, the three chapters of the film were designed to imitate different film stocks. The first chapter emulated the Fuji film stock to intensify the cast's skin tones. The second chapter imitated the Agfa film stock, which added cyan to the images, while the third chapter used a modified Kodak film stock.
The score of Moonlight was composed by Nicholas Britell. Britell applied the chopped and screwed technique from hip hop remixes to orchestral music, producing a "fluid, bass-heavy score". The soundtrack, released on October 21, , consists of eighteen original songs by Britell along with others by Goodie Mob , Boris Gardiner , and Barbara Lewis. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian , lists "love, sex, survival, mothers and father figures" among its themes, particularly the lack of a nurturing father.
A major theme of Moonlight is the black male identity and its interactions with sexual identity. The film takes a form similar to a triptych in order to explore the path of a man from a neglected childhood, through an angry adolescence, to self-realization and fulfillment in adulthood. This particular story of Chiron's sexuality is also seen as a story of race in a 'post- Obama ' era.
The film amalgamates art film with hood film in its portrayal of African-American characters on-screen. This specifically deals with theme of recuperating identity, especially in terms of blackness.
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The characters operate in an urban working-class city in Florida but are portrayed through art house conventions to create a new space for black characters in cinema. This mirrors Chiron's own odyssey to learning who he is, as he constantly struggles with trying to find some essentialism to his identity, yet consistently fails in doing so.
The triptych structure helps to reiterate the fragmented personality to the film and Chiron. He argues that communities without privilege or power seek to gain it in other ways. He says one way in which males in such communities do this is by trying to enhance their masculine identity, knowing that it often provides a means to more social control in a patriarchal society.
Moonlight explores the effects of this felt powerlessness in black males. She argues the formulation of queer relationships was a method of resistance, providing love and comfort to black people when there should have been none. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, The film's poster reflects its triptych structure, combining the three actors portraying Chiron into a single face.
Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times referred to it "as one of the most anticipated films for fall". On February 27, the day after the Academy Awards, Calvin Klein released an underwear advertising campaign featuring four of the male actors in the film. After the Oscars ceremony, A24 announced that the film would be played at 1, theaters. The website's critical consensus reads, " Moonlight uses one man's story to offer a remarkable and brilliantly crafted look at lives too rarely seen in cinema. He praised the actors' performances and described the cinematography of James Laxton as "fluid and seductive, deceptively mellow, and shot through with searing compassion.
While discussing the film after its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival , Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times described Moonlight as "achingly romantic and uncommonly wise," opining the film to be an early Oscar contender. Writing for The London Review of Books in February , Michael Wood characterized the film as a study of an inherited intergenerational tragedy.
The film keeps showing us Chiron's handsome, inscrutable face. The silence doesn't tell us anything, it just asks us to feel sorry for him All is not lost, though, because as we gaze at Chiron, we can think of something else: Does it mean that Juan was once a Chiron Not quite that perhaps, but the last shot of the film is of the young Chiron sitting on the beach His wide eyes suggest all the desolation and promise that Juan saw in him at the beginning.
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If we started again, would things be different? Melanie McDonagh of The Spectator called the film "boring" and "utterly pointless. Moonlight was listed on numerous critics' top ten lists for At the 74th Golden Globe Awards , Moonlight received six nominations, the second highest of all film nominees.
Moonlight received four nominations at the 70th British Academy Film Awards: Beatty later stated that he had mistakenly been given the duplicate Best Actress envelope, for which Emma Stone had won for her role in La La Land several minutes prior. Because the film's screenplay was based on a play that had not previously been produced or published, different awards have had different rules about whether it qualified in the original or adapted screenplay categories. The film is referenced in "Moonlight", a song from Jay-Z 's studio album 4: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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