"Fences" is adapted from the play of the same name by the playwright August Wilson, and has been performed on Broadway stage many times and has won Tony and Pulitzer Prizes
. There have always been people who wanted to make "Fences" into a movie, but the screenwriter August Wilson insisted that black filmmakers be the director, so it has been difficult to give birth. After the producer Scott Rudin received the rights to the film, he called Washington and asked him if he wanted to play or direct the film. Washington promised him to read the script first. After reading the script, Washington was attracted by this story. Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. admitted afterwards that he had seen the drama when he was 20 years old. He did not immediately agree to make the movie, but the reason for acting in the drama version was because he was worried that his age could not wait for the preparation of the movie. Washington was 55 at the time, and Troy, the lead actor in the play, was 53 years old. If you don't hurry up, Washington is worried that he is too old to act
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Cameron 2022-03-29 09:01:03
With a score of 7.9, it is a movie that competes with "Moonlight" for the best picture at the Oscar. Movies about racial conflicts do have an advantage in the Oscars. The protagonist's acting skills are good, and the lines are full of life philosophy, but how can a movie rely on the lines to promote the plot? The plot is still too scattered, a bit like a stage play.
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Jessica 2022-04-24 07:01:13
Stage play adaptation, this amazingly dense volume of lines...
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Bono: They walk out their front door and take off down one road or another and just keep on walkin'. Just keep on walking till they come to something else. Ain't you never heard of nobody having the walking blues? Now, that's what you call it when you just take off like that.
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Troy: When he turned to face me, I knew why the devil never come and get him 'cause he was the devil himself. I don't know what happened. I woke up, laying there by the creek, and Blue, this old dog we had, he was licking my face. Both my eyes were swoll shut. I thought I was blind, I couldn't see nothing. I just laid there and cried. And I didn't know what I was gonna do. But I knew the time had come for me to leave my daddy's house. Suddenly, the world got big, and it was a long time before I could cut it down to where I could handle it. Part of that cutting down was where I got to the place where I could feel him kicking in my blood, and I knew the only thing that separated us was a matter of a few years.I hope he's dead. I hope he found some peace.