WILL SMITH EMANCIPATION FILM INFRINGES ON BOOK (PROPERTY) RIGHTS!
by CRN Team
Will Smith Emancipation film is filled with action and some gruesome scenery.
The main complaint critics have sited above all others the feel and flow and the paced of the story is distracting as well as the cinematic choice.
The credibility of the film is also marred by the way Wills character seems to get away with a lot while others pay the price for minor infractions.
When will Smith famously slapped Chris Rock across the face last year at the academy awards it made headline news around the world however, it may revisit a negative cloud come next award season.
Will must now contend with new allegations of THEFT!
Emancipation source material taken from the 2017 published book Hope River: by Pulitzer Prize winner and native New Yorker Max Stravagar.
To be re-release under a new title Enslavem' later this month.
Wealth Rights publishing, licensed the movie rights to Vision Image Films now plans to sue for damages.
What the book and film have in common they both dive into the slave subject matter.
The film and book both open up with a slave family torn apart by the selling of their relative(s)
They both have leading characters who are enslaved in two different plantations one worse than the other.
The film depicts someone eaten by an alligator while the book suggests one was eaten by one.
In addition they both portray one or more slaves decapitated.
The two also display on film and between pages dead bodies in the river or water.
In addition they both have leading characters survive drowning.
In both film and book the leading characters Peter and Doug goes on a journey or quest to find lost love or relatives.
In both film and book canine dogs are ready to capture, harm or kill the lead characters.
The two leading characters Peter and Doug are also whipped into submission... but nonetheless they eventually escape.
In addition the film and book shows resourceful leading characters.
They both are set in the civil war period and each leading characters shape the war or war effort.
They both have leading characters come across a home while on the run to freedom.
(Spoiler alert) tours the end of the film and book the characters reunite with a love one and finds them missing a body part or limb; a sacrifice made for a better future.
This theme happens twice and is first visited in the opening passage of the book, when Tracy aborts the masters child and mutilates herself on purpose so she is no longer able to have children.
They both have harden masters, whose slaves suffers from labor exhaustion, as expected in most slave films and books to a certain degree…however, when all of the elements above mentioned are placed or stringed all together the comparison is stricken and mounts, which doesn’t look good for Will Smith and his peoples.
As you can see above from start to finish the two works are competing and the mechanism are the same.
The nuts and bolts…etc were out right stolen, failing to acknowledge Max Stravagar’s contribution.
In addition the author claims he sent a number of book links from a short version of his story to director Antione Fuqua and to Will Smith and their peoples before the film was made.
You can see below an example on twitter stretching as far back to 2018. The author admits he has additional evidence in his possession and in the pass has provided links with a full version of his book to those involved in the making of Emancipation.
The writer who wrote Emancipation: William College’s credibility is now put in question and has some explaining to do.
Ironically the film portrays a character seeking freedom of justice, while on the flip side the makers of the film withheld recognition and committed PEN HEIST on Max Stravagar’s classic, which many believe it to be the best slave book today… and by some accounts more than Roots!
Enslavem is a masterpiece of a read while Emancipation falls short because of director Antoine Faqua brake turn edit style…and missing also the opportunity to capture critical moments.
The author has express on his Twitter page quote: “Dear Will Smith stop slapping and stealing peoples shit!"
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