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Sep 24, 2015 · The part of Mister Johnson was difficult to cast (Beresford has said that black American and South African actors found the character incomprehensible), but it is hard to imagine the role being played more persuasively or passionately than by the London-born Nigerian actor Maynard Eziashi.
Mister Johnson is a 1990 American drama film based on the 1939 novel by Irish author Joyce Cary. The film, set in 1929, stars first-time [1] actor Maynard Eziashi as a Nigerian who works as a clerk for the British civil service and adopts the style of the British colonialists in the belief that he is a true Englishman.
There is also, of course, a savage irony in the fact that Rudbeck knows Johnson got into trouble in the first place by taking the rap for him. One of the subtleties of the film is the way this is never quite spelled out – not even by Rudbeck to his wife, Celia ( Beatie Edney ).
Mister Johnson, based on the 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot. A decade after he broke through with Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford made another acclaimed film about the effects of colonialism on the individual.
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The film has a huge cast, and filming in the African sun, it had to be a difficult. I loved the talent. Every character was real. I loved the story --the collision of two cultures at the beginning. Most of all I love the character of Mister Johnson as portrayed by Maynard Eziashi. His behavior seemed typical of the era.
Sep 21, 2015 · Mocking could be welcome, but Beresford and screenwriter William Boyd never satisfactorily resolve Johnson’s identity, perhaps because doing so would entail the film’s head-first immersion into truly difficult racial questions, ones which cannot be resolved by simply allowing Johnson’s self to remain ambiguous and unexamined. Johnson may ...
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Mister Johnson: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Maynard Eziashi, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Beatie Edney. In 1923, a local resident of British Colonial Nigeria tries to be equal with the colonial administration.
