{"id":7333,"date":"2019-11-13T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:16:12","slug":"madder-than-a-mosquito-in-a-mannequin-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/11\/13\/madder-than-a-mosquito-in-a-mannequin-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Madder Than a Mosquito in a Mannequin Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know you&#8217;ve seen my title, so I hope that you do not feel that way when you see that this blog is not the continuation of my fashion series. I was unable to produce that in time due to scheduling conflicts, so I interrupt my fashion series to review this movie:<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend I watched the movie,\u00a0<em>Harriet, <\/em>which was\u00a0based on the story of Harriet Tubman<em>. <\/em>My mother and I\u00a0had planned to go see it on the 2nd of November, the day after it premiered, but it wasn&#8217;t playing anywhere near us. I looked into 4 theaters and of those 4, it was only playing in 1! Can you believe that? I was honestly shocked, but my mom said she wasn&#8217;t surprised.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GqoEs4cG6Uw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film featured Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman. Erivo is most known for her role in the Broadway production of The Color Purple as\u00a0Celie. (Fact: I have actually never seen The Color Purple, but I REALLY want to!! My mom tells me GREAT things about it&#8230; I say this to say: if you have it, can I borrow it?!) William Still was played by Leslie Odom Jr., who was the original Aaron Burr in the Broadway production of <em>Hamilton<\/em>. The film also featured singer, Janelle Mon\u00e1e, as\u00a0Marie Buchanon, a fictional woman who helped Tubman in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>With this cast, I knew going in that it would be a good movie, but it exceeded my expectations.\u00a0 And, as of November 10, the film has made $23.5 million in the box office.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kasi_Lemmons\">Kasi Lemmons<\/a> (<em>Eve&#8217;s Bayou, The Caveman&#8217;s Valentine<\/em>) directed, and co-wrote the film adaptation with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gregory_Allen_Howard\">Gregory Allen Howard<\/a> (<em>Remember the Titans, Ali<\/em>). Because the film is a biopic, or biographical film, while it is based on true events, some or most of the plot has been dramatized. I believe that Lemmons and Howard did a wonderful job with the film. However, others who saw the film disagreed and felt that the film did not do Tubman&#8217;s legacy justice. I will include a link to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/michaelblackmon\/harriet-kasi-lemmons-criticism-white-savior\">article<\/a> by Buzzfeed News that delves into the reviews of the movie instead of explaining them myself because I do not want to spoil it for anyone, but after you watch, you can come back and look at the reviews \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve been doing daily affirmations, and it&#8217;s been going great so far. I am such an optimist, but even I sometimes struggle, so as soon as I wake up: before my alarm, after I&#8217;ve hit the snooze button 12 times, or even on those unexpected days when I wake up the first time my alarm goes off, I say just one positive thing. It can be off the top of my head or I&#8217;ll look at my Pinterest. Here&#8217;s a list of morning affirmations that I have been using lately- enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7369 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/3f96ecb8edb7f0e3351a23abebc22567-410x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/3f96ecb8edb7f0e3351a23abebc22567-410x1024.jpg 410w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/3f96ecb8edb7f0e3351a23abebc22567-120x300.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/3f96ecb8edb7f0e3351a23abebc22567.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 85vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you&#8217;ve seen my title, so I hope that you do not feel that way when you see that this blog is not the continuation of my fashion series. I was unable to produce that in time due to scheduling conflicts, so I interrupt my fashion series to review this movie: This past weekend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/11\/13\/madder-than-a-mosquito-in-a-mannequin-factory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Madder Than a Mosquito in a Mannequin Factory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}