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When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first learn “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black boys in a harmful reform faculty within the Nineteen Sixties, he couldn’t assist however put himself within the sneakers of its protagonists, Elwood and Turner.
In his movie adaptation of the e-book, Ross does that to the viewers: You see what the characters see, as a result of it’s filmed from the principle character’s viewpoint. “I questioned,” Ross stated, “how do you explicitly movie from the angle of a Black individual?”
It was an experiment that has paid off in essential acclaim. “Nickel Boys” has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards: finest tailored screenplay and finest image.
Within the first episode of our particular collection dedicated to Oscar-nominated movies tailored from books, host Gilbert Cruz talks with Ross about why he made the movie this explicit method.
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