AND one of the most important pages of history in the field of civil rightsthe one told this evening at 21.30 on Rai 3 on first tv in The color of freedom. The film written and directed by Barry Alexander Brown, Spike Lee’s historic editor who recently moved on to direct.
The color of freedom: the plot of the movie
Set in 1961, the film tells the life of Bob Zellner (Lucas Tilllisten), the son of a Methodist pastor and a student at Huntingdon College in Alabama. Looking for information for a university thesis on racial issuesBob and four companions participate in a event held in a black Baptist church. The occasion? The fifth anniversary of the boycott in 1956 of the Montgomery bus when Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving way to a white man.
The police enter the church to arrest everyone, but everyone else White boys escape arrest through a back door. Since that time, theBob’s life turns into a nightmare, especially after an article about his participation in the anniversary comes out. Bob, however, has already chosen a side and begins to openly oppose racist peerseven saving a black girl (Sienna Guillory) from being lynched during a demonstration.
A scene from the movie “The Color of Freedom”. Lucas Till is Bob Zellner. (Courtesy Notorious Pictures)
An honest civilian film
Adaptation of Bob Zellner’s autobiography: The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, The color of freedom And Written and directed by Spike Lee collaborator Barry Alexander Brown and producer of the film. It’s no surprise then that, after decades of editing Spike’s films, Brown really proves himself skilled at weaving smoothly and convincingly not only the great themes of the film but also the archival footage of the time. Not forgetting the skill in recreate the atmosphere that reigned at the time in the United States.
Far from easy rhetoricthe film thus gives us back the human and realistic portrait of a young man with his worries and its contradictions and that, above all, will have to deal with a sort of ethical “awakening” in some ways unexpected.
The color of freedom thus becomes not only a valuable tool from mandatory display in all schools but it is also somewhere between a history lesson and a “reminder” on the whole road that still needs to be done. Which, despite more than fifty years having passed, is even more necessary today than ever.
Brian Dennehy and Lucas Till in “The Color of Freedom”. (Courtesy Notorious Pictures)
The “dramatic” talent of Lucas Till
Born in Texas in 1990, the future actor made his debut at just 18 years old in an episode of the legendary serial Dr. House – Medical Division and, also in 2008, is alongside Miley Cyrus – with whom he will also have a brief flirt – in the film adaptation of the TV series Hannah Montana. Angelic face and light-hearted at the same time, Lucas in 2011 he joined the large family of the X-Men where he plays, in many films of the saga, the character of havok.
In 2016 comes the opportunity to make yourself known also thanks to reboot of the legendary TV series MacGayver where, with new energy, gives a second life to the character of the special police officer capable of getting out of the way of any trouble thanks to his ingenuity. And the now legendary “last minute” inventions they made MacGayver a real cult. The series ends in 2021, just in the year of The color of freedom where, for the first time, he reveals his unexpected talents as a committed actor.
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