Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua Team on Runaway Slave Thriller ‘Emancipation’

[papertrail08]

He lowkey thought that debasing himself in a slave movie would get him back in the good graces of cacs.

Because he suffers from low self-esteem and still wants cac approval.

Will filmed this a year BEFORE the whole slapping incident

 

[papertrail08]

Everything Fuqua has done after Training Day is.

 

[wire28]

Isn’t this the nikka that slapped Chris rock?

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I really feel like he's self deluded enough to think this was the type of movie he needed to redeem himself with after his persecution from hollywood. A little too on the nose for someone suffering from main character syndrome Will

Thats how im reading it also, it feels desperate

 

[thaKEAF]

Turned it off in the first two minutes

 

[Jazzy B.]

Great movie

Easily Antoine Fuqua's best movie on a technical level.

One of Will's best acting performances.

The part where Will

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gets saved I had a horrible feeling it would be a cac that saved him and was ready to switch off, but when they showed it was the black soldiers

People calling this trash but dikksucked The Revenant and Django

 

[hitmonlee]

Not watching another will smith anything hmph

 

[Jazzy B.]

I really can’t believe will smith of all people is doing a slave movie lol

Slavery flick...unless it's about a violent rebellion gonna have to pass

It's not really a slave movie.

It's more a survival action thriller war movie. It's just set during slavery times with that as the backdrop.

It's like if you combined The Revenant, The Fugitive and Rambo together you get this movie.

Even the slavery backdrop felt more Prisoner of War because when Will was captured there were bombs going off.

And after a certain point in the movie Will actually starts killing cacs and some c00ns without being prompted to or aided by white people or any sort of white character/savior.

In fact the movie has ZERO White Saviors at all which shocked me.

 

[lamont614]

Will filmed this a year BEFORE the whole slapping incident

Dog these nikkas is tellin on themselves

 

[Sway]

Trevor.

 

[KBadd]

I really liked it.

Fuqua did an outstanding job and this is Will Smith’s best performance to date. I know he won’t win a damn thing for it, but he should.

Highly recommend it.

 

[daemonova]

 

[Methodical]

I am just done watching this movie. Surprisingly, this movie is good and I enjoyed it. Will killed this role. He would have probably gotten Oscar nominations for this role if he didn't slap Chris Rock at the Oscar Awards show.

This is not a typical slave movie you would think but set during slavery times. No white Savior in this movie at all.

Fuqua did a great job with this movie.

 

[Sunalmighty]

i watched it earlier. not bad. man i won't lie, i had completely forgot about this film being about Peter. when the scars on his back were revealed, i shed a SINGLE tear man real talk

 

[Swirv]

Dope movie. It was really sad what his wife had to endure to keep the fam together.

I like how the onions were used too. That breh thought Peter was mad, but he soon regretted not following his advice. I read about the onion technique in a narrative written by an enslaved person during those times.

That battlefield scene was the best I’ve ever seen from the civil war era, hyper-realistic.