Black History Month: Disney-Pixar s Soul a celebration of African-American culture
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Share: Disney-Pixar s Soul, currently streaming on Disney+, taps into a rich vein of African-American culture to tell the story of a Queens music teacher who dreams of becoming a great jazz musician.
This week, the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honored Soul with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Feature, and the movie has won wide praise for its authenticity.
As we mark Black History Month, it s worth looking back at what many are calling an instant classic.
Jamie Foxx is the voice behind the teacher, Joe Gardner, and Soul is a celebration of jazz, a uniquely American art form. But it was also a chance to make history, a fact not lost on Foxx.
Sandy Kenyon has more on the new Disney Pixar film Soul, which is both a celebration of African American culture and a reflection on the meaning of life.
He taught at Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School 74 in Bayside for decades, inspiring generations of students, but he was surprised to get an e-mail from Pete Docter, the director of Soul, inviting him to the Pixar campus in Northern California. Pete repeatedly asked us, Did I get this right? Is this correct? he said.
Members of Docter s team traveled to Dr. Archer s classroom to take photos and measurements, and the result is a real-life depiction.