It has taken us until 2019 to have a film about Araminta “Minty” Ross. Better known in history as Harriet Tubman. In Kasi Lemmons’ new film “Harriet,” the story breaks away from the typical slave n…
,” the story breaks away from the typical slave narrative of an upward journey. Rather, we get a story that delves into the woman, her humanity and inspirational life.points out, by “three distinct chapters of her life.” The first is Harriet as a slave woman who “is physically strong but oppressed” as she is abused and torn from her family. We then “watch her escape to freedom.
Having that transition and character arc, helped Smith editorially. “I had a lot of conversations with Kasi,” Smith says when trying to find the tone and pacing. Since Lemmons had done thorough research into Tubman, he posed questions to the director rather than “try to become an expert on Harriet myself.” He adds, “I wanted to learn about Harriet what the film would teach me. I didn’t want to put myself ahead of what the audience stood to learn.
While the was crew shooting in Virginia, Smith was assembling the film in New York. For a while, Lemmons and Smith communicated by phone and email, which Smith says, “felt strange.” He finally went down to the set, spending four days with Lemmons. “That’s where we locked in our language, and that was one of the most important things for me. After watching Kasi work with, the cast and crew, it was so much easier for me to see her intentions and vision in the dailies.
One of the most powerful scenes in the film is when Tubman crosses to freedom for the first time. Smith shares a special movie magic moment with that scene. “It’s one of the most beautiful images in the film. It was meant to be a morning shot but they were shooting it at sunset for sunrise. Everyone was concerned because it was pouring. By the time, Cynthia got to set, out of nowhere, the rain broke and it was the most stunning sunset possible.
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