Movie: Get On Up
Writer: Jez Butterworth, Steven Baigelman,
John-Henry Butterworth
Director: Tate Taylor
Year: 2014
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis,Lennie James, Viola Davis,Fred Melamed,Craig Robinson,Jill Scott,Octavia Spencer,Josh Hopkins, Brandon Mychal Smith,Tika Sumpter, Aunjanue Ellis,Tariq Trottter, Aloe Blacc, Keith Robinson, Nick Eversman, J.D.Evermore, Carol Lee,Cleta Elaine Ellington,Jim Gleason, Ahna O’Rilly, Antonius Charles, Donald Watkins,Danzel Reed,Corey Srenson, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc,Hunter Burke, Julius Tennon, James Dumont, Jamarion Scott, Jordan Scott, Stacey Scowley,Rena DeAngelo, Liz Mikel, Aakomon Jones,George Quinones, Aaron Jay Rome, Atkins Estimond, Clyde Jones, Michael Papajohn, Matt Thompson, Elliott June Rogers, Adrien Scott Robinson, Alvin Edney II, Randy Smith, Joe T. Blankenship,Mario J. Radford, Sheldon Frett, Sandra DeNise, Jacinte Blankenship, Cariella Smith, Kirk Bovill, Taura Cherne, Dominic Thigpen, Billy Slaughter, Justin Hall, David Carzell, Jason Davis, Jamell Richardson, Allison Janney, John Benjamin Hickey
Story: A record of James Brown’s rise from serious lack to became one of the most dominant famous musicians in history. The history of the love, abuse, and the music that change a world.
Plot: A man is walking down a dark hall to the stage. From the hallway he can hear the audience is calling his name really, really loudly. As he keeps on to the stage, he hears voices of people he knew throughout his life. This man is James Brown played by (Chadwick Boseman). He tells the story from his point of view from what he can remember from a childhood to adulthood.
Chronology: The film is in no chronology order. It jumps from one year to the other. It start out in the early 90’s and go to his childhood, then to the 70’s the movie covers many years of James Brown life in the order his remember them in. It follows no 123 sequence but the movie make much sense. All the scene come together to give you a whole picture of a life well lived.
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