Barry Jenkins served as showrunner, executive producer, writer and director to the 10-part Amazon series,
The Underground Railroad. Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon Studios
For director Barry Jenkins, filming
The Underground Railroad has been the most difficult undertaking of his career.
Amazon s new series based is based on Colson Whitehead s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an enslaved teenage girl who escapes from a brutal Georgia plantation. The series, which was filmed in Georgia, depicts the underground railroad as a literal train that secretly transports people who have escaped enslavement and make stops in different states.
Jenkins says there were times when he wept on set while depicting the brutality of slavery: It was incredibly difficult, partly because we were standing in places where there was a feeling that . these atrocities had occurred, he says.
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The director’s 10-part adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an escaped slave is visually stunning and emotionally wrenching
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Moonlight director will pause the story to present a tableau of his huge cast of black characters. These shots are stunning in their composition, as if Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton are painting an entirely different vision of American history than the one you most commonly find in textbooks and on museum walls. It’s an appropriate touch for a story that weaves in agonizingly real details from our horrible past of racist injustice with Whitehead’s rewriting of yesterday so that, for instance, the titular “underground” is a literal network of subterranean train tunnels that enslaved people like Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and Caesar (Aaron Pierre) use to escape the horrors of a lif
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In Barry Jenkins’ 10-hour historical fantasy miniseries
The Underground Railroad, regret is generational, as easily passed down in a family as eye color or hair texture.
The Underground Railroad, adapted by the
Moonlight director from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel, takes place in antebellum Georgia. Yet it’d be a mistake to call the series a slave narrative. There’s only pain and suffering in a genre originally constructed to end slavery by explaining the horrors of plantation life to Northern white readers.
That gaze leapt from literature’s pages to dominate contemporary movie screens in films like
Amistad,