Origin returns to Martin at the end in a juxtaposition suggested by one of DuVernay's close friends, Guillermo del Toro. “He was one of our biggest champions, and he came in and edited with us for a couple of days,” says Averick. “It was his idea to flash to Trayvon Martin within the concentration camp scene. He was like, ‘There's some kind of connection.' ”
When they put the clips up against each other, the impact was stunning. In the Holocaust sequence, a Jewish woman desperately tries to run after her son as they are ripped away from each other. Nazi officials wrestle her to the ground and put a gun to her head, echoed decades later by Zimmerman wrestling Martin to the ground. Even the composition of the footage was coincidentally similar.
Despite its indie budget, Origin also features a roster of stars, many who came in for just a scene or two. “You come in, you'll get fit on one day, we'll rehearse the next day and then we're shooting and then we've got to send you back because we can't pay for the hotel,” DuVernay says of convincing Audra McDonald, Nick Offerman, Blair Underwood and Vera Farmiga to say yes to small but impactful roles.
People strip others of their humanity to justify their treatment — enslavement of Africans in the New World, execution of Jews during the Holocaust or the continued abuse of and discrimination against Dalits in India. Origin depicts each of these atrocities with a deliberate gaze
!Bharatiya stop doing another holocaust
All this effort to create a fantastic film has been duly reflected in the floods of awards and box office revenue that have been coming in
it was snubbed by the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, DGA, SAG and Critics Choice Awards
During award show season, DuVernay has been vocal about "Origin" being passed over for major nominations. On Dec. 11, the day Golden Globe nominations were announced, Ellis-Taylor went to a local theater and passed out the movie's flyers “to remind herself what matters,” DuVernay said on Instagram the following month.
“I wish she didn't have to do this to remind herself. I wish she was at the Globes or SAG Awards or Critics Choice or the other nominations that didn't come,” wrote DuVernay on Instagram Jan. 3.
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Ava DuVernay is a lolcow. Still can't believe they gave her "A Wrinkle in Time" and she justified its total failure by saying ypipo just couldn't understand it
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I never watched the A Wrinkle in Time adaptation. Did they take out all of the incredibly overt Christian elements from the novel? Because if they did that and kept the plot the same, there's no way the narrative didn't end up an absolute mess.
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Yeah there's nothing Christian in it. At best it's a generic "believe in yourself" movie that thinks far too little of its target audience. Felt like a movie for 6 year olds with a $120M budget and garish CGI. When you strip away any deeper ideas you're left with empty platitudes and vague girl power vibes (which the movie collectively refers to as "being a warrior" but it seems to mean, like, standing up to bullies or whatever)
I'm don't think the movie's script actually says anything about race, but it's casted like a modern commercial (Meg is black, Dad is white, Mom is black, Charles Wallace is like Filipino somehow?, and the Mrs's include Oprah and Mindy Kaling). So that's one of the visually "louder" elements of the movie. And whenever someone said the movie sucked, DuVernay would be like "well it's a movie about black girlhood!" I think she's confused vibes for themes. It has a lot of diversity, but it's not "about" anything.
The writer (iirc not DuVernay) said that the Christian themes were dated and wouldn't resonate with modern audiences but I can't find the interview
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i mostly know her from one-off tv directing gigs. you will be watching a (normally fairly good) tv show and then get to an episode that just seems...wrong. the blocking is weird, the editing is jarring, the characters suddenly lose all chemistry with one another.
the credits roll.
DIRECTED BY: Ava DuVernay
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She had a dc comic film at one point too but fricked it up so bad it got cancelled
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