"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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For this week's main review, I am joined by Amanda Spears, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer & Ryan C. Showers. This week we're discussing the latest film on Netflix, which is another stage to screen adaptation from Tony Award winning playwright August Wilson ("Fences") titled "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Already a big Oscar contender, the film was suddenly thrusted into the spotlight earlier this year with the tragic passing of one of its stars, Chadwick Boseman. With this being his last on-screen role, he leaves behind an iconic legacy which we discuss, along with the other tremendous performances from this ensemble, the direction by George C. Wolfe, how well the film overcomes its stage trappings and more. Thank you and 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 our review of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
0:06.5	A one, a two, a you know what to do.
0:14.3	It's be an empty world without the blues.
0:20.3	I try to take that emptiness and fill it up like something.
0:23.6	But they want to call me Mother Blues. That's all right with me.
0:31.6	It don't hurt none.
0:33.6	Where's the horn player?
0:40.3	I got a friend
0:41.3	Come on Levy, you rehearse like everybody else.
0:43.3	I'm gonna give me a band and make me some records.
0:46.3	I know how to play real music, not this jug band shit.
0:49.3	You call that playing music. I know what I'm doing.
0:52.3	I'm gonna fire me. I don't care.
0:55.0	When I got there, they began to say.
0:59.0	That's to get the people's attention.
1:02.0	That's when you in slow drag come in with the rhythm part.
1:05.0	Me and Cutler play on the break.
1:17.6	Levy, Miss Sunni understand it and what you say is what my say to count. We'll be ready to go in 15 minutes.
1:19.6	We'll be ready to go and madam says we're ready to go.
1:21.6	And that's the way go around here.
1:32.3	These records are gonna be hits. Every colored man in the world got to do his part.
1:37.3	I'm gonna tell the white man just what he can do.
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