5/7/2023 0 Comments Solomon northup's odysseyGordon Parks, by contrast, in Solomon Northup’s Odyssey, opens with a moon shining in a dark night and cuts to an interior with couples happily dancing to Northup’s exuberant fiddling. Hence, while Solomon Northup opens his 1853 narrative with a detailed genealogy of the history of his family and how he became a free black man and then married, had a family, and moved from a farm where the family had worked for some years to the town where he hoped to advance himself as a carpenter and fiddler, McQueen chooses fragmentary resonant images organized in a modernist collage to depict Northup’s fall from freedom into the bondage of slavery. Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Tomas Gutierrez Alea’s The Last Supper (1976) depicts collective slave revolt. Solomon and Jenny in Gordon Park's Odysseyīrad Pitt as the anti-slavery worker Bass in 12 Years Michael Fassbender as Epps in McQueen’s 12 Years Paul Dano as a sadistic overseer in 12 Years Northup's wife in Gordon Park's Solomon Northup’s Odyssey
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