We Revive Tupac and Side-Eye Sofia Coppola

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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What responsibility does a movie have to the details of history? In Sofia Coppola’s new film, “The Beguiled,” a remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 psychological thriller set in the American South during the Civil War, she omits a key character from the original film: a slave woman named Hallie. Is Coppola’s omission a correction of history or an act of artistic cowardice? Speaking of history and responsibility: We take a look at “All Eyez on Me,” which tells the story of the brief but remarkable life of Tupac Shakur. At a time when the safety of black men’s lives seems dubious, is there significance in people’s refusing to accept that Tupac is truly dead?

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:01.3	I'm Wesley Morris and we're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:05.2	I'm mostly right about how humans relate to technology.
0:08.1	And I mostly write about how popular culture and movies and such relate to humans.
0:12.7	And this is still processing.
0:16.3	Welcome back.
0:26.4	Hello Jenna.
0:27.3	Hello world.
0:28.8	What's happening?
0:29.6	Well, you know, this is our pop culture cafeteria.
0:32.5	We dish out hot takes and cool come back.
0:34.9	Oh, so I want to know what's on your menu for this week.
0:39.5	Wow.
0:40.5	Wow.
0:41.5	When I put me in a better mood than I was when I got here.
0:43.9	Oh, where is this ballpark?
0:45.9	Tell me about it.
0:46.9	But I do think that there's a song that is kind of capturing the moment.
0:51.0	We can put it on our playlist because I also like it in quotation marks.
0:55.0	I think it is The Man by the killers, the band that like won't stay dead.
1:01.4	They have this great song about like being an asshole that sort of fits this moment.
1:08.2	It's so aware of itself as a joke on a particular kind of white male obnoxiousness.
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