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Jan 19, 2021 · One Night in Miami is really about the ultimate paradox: that after nearly 60 years of progress, it feels like America is still stuck in the same place. The film, which made its debut at the Venice Film Festival last September, has much in common with two other recommendable 2020 releases: Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods and the Denzel Washington-produced Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , both on Netflix.
- The Prologues
- The Day of
- The Night at The Hotel
- The Aftermath
The film starts off with separate events that precede the February 1964 night by varying degrees of time. The very first one we see is Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) in the midst of a 1963 fight against British boxer Henry “the Hammer” Cooper (Sean Monaghan) at London’s Wembley Stadium, and backed by trainers Angelo Dundee (Michael Imperioli) and Drew Bu...
After the prologue, One Night in Miami jumps right to Feb. 25 in Miami, opening the day with Cassius Clay’s legendary underwater boxing-pose photographs—which weren’t actually taken in 1964 but three years earlier, in a shoot that ended up in Life magazine and gave Clay an early measure of national exposure. It is true, however, that he couldn’t sw...
According to Dave Zirin’s Jim Brown: Last Man Standing, the football star really did want to have a big party at the Fontainebleau, in contrast to Malcolm and Clay’s plan for a quieter evening at the Hampton. It’s after the four finally gather there, however, that the details get fuzzier—though the detail of Malcolm offering vanilla ice cream in li...
After the bar scene, One Night in Miami shows a little bit of what happened to each figure following that February brouhaha. Sam Cooke is seen performing “Change” on Johnny Carson, which, as we’ve already established, is a misleading version of events. Meanwhile, Clay is shown being consecrated by Elijah Muhammad, who declares the athlete’s new nam...
- Nitish Pahwa
Jan 15, 2021 · One Night in Miami imagines what that conversation might have been like, interweaving dramatizations of things these four extraordinary men actually said and did. The result is a blend of fact and ...
Jan 20, 2021 · There’s an eerie convergence between the 1964 moment Regina King’s “One Night in Miami” imagines – where four African American icons meet at a crossroads of US politics and of their ...
Sep 15, 2020 · Published on Sep 15, 2020 at 5:34 PM. TIFF. In the third act of One Night in Miami, musician Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom, Jr.) asks his good friend Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir) why he became such a ...
- Jourdain Searles
Apr 21, 2021 · Only Jim Brown is still alive today. The now-84-year-old did embark on the film career described in One Night in Miami , and appeared in leading roles throughout the 1970s.
Jan 15, 2021 · Today, the 84-year-old—who has faced accusations of violent behavior toward women throughout his career—is the last surviving member of the One Night in Miami foursome.
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