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About That Popular 'Black Films Don't Sell ...Steve Biko Died Today... And Denzel Washington Would Later 'Cry Freedom'
Today in history... September 12th, 1977, South African black student leader Steve Biko died while in police custody, triggering international outrage.
A decade later, in 1987, Richard Attenborough directed the movie Cry Freedom, a biographical drama about Biko starring Denzel Washington and Kevin Kline.
The film, while certainly well-intentioned, was essentially a Hollywood white-washing of the Apartheid-set story (business as usual). For his efforts, Denzel was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award.
Also worth noting, in 1980, Peter Gabriel told the Steve Biko story in the track titled Biko, from his album, Peter Gabriel.
Watch the music video for it below (and the trailer for Cry Freedom underneath):
3 Comments
linda shezi | March 16, 2013 2:01 AM
im so deeply touched by the story of Biko the man who gave his life so that we could be.i often wonder how his family is doing and if people are aware of what the man did for this country,He gave people hope and thats priceless.
urbanauteur | September 12, 2012 4:16 PM
That's the ONLY # of that WHOLE movie... that truly resonated with me...on the other hand,Steven Biko's black consciousness tome-I Write What I Like-along with Franz Fanon, Malcolm X and Aimee Cesare canon still(IMO) spew phire(fire).
LOVEFILM | September 12, 2012 12:13 PM
Good movie, masterful performance by Denzel Washington. RIP Biko.