Interview With "Emancipation" Director Antoine Fuqua & Cinematographer Robert Richardson

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Director Antoine Fuqua and Academy Award-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson were kind enough to recently spend some time talking with us about their work together on "Emancipation." The film tells the true story of a runaway slave named Peter (Will Smith) who escaped his plantation in the 1860s and fought his way to freedom. With unique color grading and striking images influenced by the photography from the time period, the film can currently be seen on Apple TV+. Please take a listen down below and listen to Fuqua and Richardson dive into their work on the film. Enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview,
0:05.1	with the director for Emancipation, Antoine Fukuwa, and the cinematographer Robert Richardson.
0:11.7	Give thanks to God. The Lord is with us. What can a mere man do to me?
0:21.6	Papa!
0:25.6	I will come back to you!
0:27.6	You walk the earth?
0:31.6	You walk the earth? Because I let you...
0:41.3	I'm your god now.
0:49.3	Slaves are free.
0:52.3	We must get to Baton Rouge through this swamp. Because army is dead. There are many ways to die in a swamp. The I must get to my
1:11.6	I must get to my family. I must get to my family.
1:28.3	What if you don't come back?
1:35.3	Your papa is going to be back. Do not ever stop believing that.
1:43.3	She's persisting.
1:45.0	Running.
1:46.0	Hiding.
1:48.0	Surviving.
1:49.0	I fight them.
2:05.6	They beat me.
2:08.6	They whip me.
2:11.6	They break the bones in my body.
2:16.6	More times than I can go but they never break me first and I mean, the big question I have, obviously, is how did you decide on the color grade decision for this?
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