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Terence Blanchard

The Woman King

Milan Records - Sony Masterworks
Release Date: September 9, 2022

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Choices Webisode 1: Evolving | Terence Blanchard
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“Breathless” - The Late Show’s Commercial Breakdown
1 A Sharks Tooth  
2 Agojie Its War  
3 Agojie Return  
4 Agojie Training Montage  
5 Blood of Our Sisters  
6 Choosing Agojie for the Oyo  
7 Coronation  
8 Dahomey at a Crossroads  
9 Enemy Village  
10 Entering Palace  
11 Final Test  
12 I Have to Try to Save Her  
13 Keep Rising [The Woman King]  
14 Malik and Santo Enter Abomey  
15 Malik Arrives  
16 Mother Will You Dance  
17 Nawi and Izogie (Part 1)  
18 Nawi and Izogie (Part 2)  
19 Nawi and Malik  
20 Nawi Learns the Truth  
21 Nawi Trains Alone  
22 Oyo Battle  
23 Oyo Warriors to the Village  
24 Palm Oil  
25 Road to Abomey  
26 Sometimes a Mouse Can Take Down an Elephant  
27 Stronger Warriors  
28 The Blade of Freedom  
29 The Final Battle  
30 The Kings Entrance  
31 The Oyo Arrive  
32 The Woman King  
33 There Will Be No Prisoners  
34 Through the Jungle  
35 To Be Great You Must Focus  
36 To the Vector  
37 Traditional Benin Song (from The Woman King)  
38 Tribute to the King  
39 We Bring Tribute  
40 Whiskey for Izogie  
41 With One Purpose  
42 You are Called to Join the Kings Guard  
43 You Fought Well  
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Milan Records today announces THE WOMAN KING (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) and shares an original vocal track “KEEP RISING” ahead of the album’s release on September 16. Available everywhere now, “KEEP RISING” was written by singer-songwriter JESSY WILSON alongside JEREMY LUTITO as the end credits theme to TriStar Pictures’ upcoming action drama, which is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Recorded as a duet between Wilson and “Africa’s premiere diva” ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO, who compliments Wilson’s soulful vocals with her traditional African melodies, “KEEP RISING” is a powerfully inspiring and uplifting song that captures the bravery and spirit of the onscreen warriors.

Of today’s track, The Woman King director GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD says, “An end title song is so important because you are curating the emotional end for your audience as they leave the theater. Jessy and Angélique have given us an incredible song that gets me incredibly hyped and inspired. Our film is a period piece, and ‘Keep Rising’ lyrically and sonically gives us an incredible bridge to the present. It is also a beautiful meld of cultures, most notably the culture of Benin where our incredible warriors are from. It is the perfect last flourish for The Woman King.”

  • Phila. Orch. opens season with world-premiere of Terence Blanchard's 'Orchestral Suite' / The Philadelphia Tribune
    Posted At: September 20, 2024 12:00 AM
    The Philadelphia Tribune's Rita Charleston writes…Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra will launch its 2024-2025 season in the newly-named Marian Anderson Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on Sept. 26. Terry Gross will host the opening night concert which will feature violinist Maria Duenas, and the world-premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Orchestral S...
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  • Terence Blanchard gets ready for SFJazz / San Francisco Chronicle
    Posted At: May 7, 2024 12:00 AM
    San Francisco Chronicle's Andrew Gilbert writes….For most people, getting tapped to run SFJazz, one of the largest arts presenters on the West Coast, would be a career-capping promotion. But even amongst fellow jazz stars, Terence Blanchard is not most people.In the six months since the New Orleans trumpeter, composer, bandleader and educator officially took over as SFJazz’s executive artistic director, ste...
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  • Terence Blanchard chats with 88.3WBGO on the New Orleans culture doc: 'Up From The Streets'
    Posted At: February 28, 2024 12:00 AM
    Terence Blanchard is unique in the jazz world as an artist whose creative endeavors go far beyond the genre into film scoring, crafting television series soundscapes and conceiving grand operas that have been recognized at the highest levels of art appreciation. In addition, Blanchard has been at the forefront of giving voice in his works to socio-cultural issues and racial injustices of our time.  “Li...
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  • Lincoln Center to celebrate the music of Terence Blanchard / PLAYBILL
    Posted At: January 26, 2024 12:00 AM
    The Movie Music of Terence Blanchard will be performed at David Geffen Hall.PLAYBILL's KEVIN FILIPSKI writes…..For more than three decades, Grammy-winning composer and performer Terence Blanchard has been an integral part of the films of Spike Lee. Since 1991, when they first collaborated on Jungle Fever, Lee and Blanchard have worked on 15 films together, culminating in Oscar nominations for Blanchard’s sc...
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  • Terence Blanchard's 'Champion' comes to Lyric Opera of Chicago / CHICAGO*STAR
    Posted At: January 18, 2024 12:00 AM
    Champion: An Opera in Jazz, in 2 Acts and 10 scenes was co-commissioned by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Jazz Saint Louis, first performed in June 2013. A groundbreaking work combining the disciplines of opera and jazz, Terence Blanchard’s Champion: An Opera in Jazz (2013) tells the real-life story of world champion boxer Emile Griffith, a man haunted by memories of his past who struggled to reconcil...
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  • Terence Blanchard scoring National Geographic's Genius: MLK/X / Disney Plus Informer: first look
    Posted At: December 20, 2023 12:00 AM
    Disney Plus Informer writes….Terence Blanchard is returning to score the fourth season of National Geographic’s original anthology series Genius.  Season 4 is titled “Genius: MLK/X” and will premiere the first two episodes on Feb. 1 on National Geographic and stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu, with two new episodes debuting weekly on all platforms. Blanchard has also previously worked on BlacKkKl...
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  • As new artistic director, Terence Blanchard is ready to lead SFJazz into its next 40 years / Nob Hill Gazette
    Posted At: December 5, 2023 12:00 AM
    As the newly minted executive artistic director, captured in SFJazz Center’s Green Room, Blanchard is ready to lead the venerable West Coast organization into its next 40 years.Nob Hill Gazette's PAUL WILNER writes…..‘I tell people I’ve been given the keys to a Ferrari — it’s fun to drive, but you have to get used to controlling it,” says legendary trumpeter Terence Blanchard of his new position as executiv...
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  • For their final concert of the semester, Terence Blanchard swings alongside the UT jazz cats / The Daily Texan
    Posted At: November 13, 2023 12:00 AM
    The Daily Texan's Isabella Capuchino writes……Renowned jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard accompanied the UT Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble as a soloist for their final concert of the semester at Bates Concert Hall on Nov. 8, 2023.This Wednesday, patrons packed Bates Concert Hall to catch a whistle of the renowned jazz trumpeter and composer, Terence Blanchard. He accompanied the UT Jazz Orchest...
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  • Terence Blanchard - Dallas Symphony concerts to air on KERA-TV / The Dallas Morning News
    Posted At: September 5, 2023 12:00 AM
    Oscar nominee, six-time Grammy-winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies – past and present.From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films ranging from the documentary When the Levees Broke, about Blanchard’s hometown of New Orleans during the devastation ...
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  • Terence Blanchard's 'Champion' debuts at the Met / NewOrleans
    Posted At: September 1, 2023 12:00 AM
    NewOrleans - SUE STRACHAN|ST writes….On the spring-like eve of April 10, those bedecked in gowns, tuxedos and other finery gathered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York to see history in the making: the opening night of New Orleans native Terence Blanchard’s “Champion.”The opera, which was conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, is about real-life boxer Emile Griffith, who rose from obscurity to become wo...
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  • Incoming SFJazz director: Terence Blanchard named NEA Jazz Master / San Francisco Chronicle
    Posted At: July 14, 2023 12:00 AM
    San Francisco Chronicle's Aidin Vaziri writes….Terence Blanchard, the renowned trumpeter and composer who will assume the role of executive artistic director for SFJazz, has been chosen as one of the esteemed 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters.The seven-time Grammy winner and two-time Academy Award nominee joins a distinguished group that includes journalist Willard Jenkins, pianist Amina Cla...
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  • 'I Am Not Who You Want Me to Be' by Terence Blanchard / The New York Times
    Posted At: June 15, 2023 12:00 AM
    If you think you can define a musician’s identity only by his past work, listen again. This essay by Terence Blanchard is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: Who do you think you are?  “Terence Blanchard? Oh, is he doing jazz now?”My agent was asked this some years ago at a breakfast meeting over bagels and not-that-great coffee near the New York H...
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  • With big shoes to fill, SFJAZZ taps Terence Blanchard to lead the way / 91.1WRTI
    Posted At: June 8, 2023 12:00 AM
    Terence Blanchard, named new Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ, at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco.90.1WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source - Nate Chinen writes…..Terence Blanchard, the new Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ, at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco. Last year, when Randall Kline announced his intention to retire as executive artistic director of SFJAZZ, the obvious question was: how ...
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  • Terence Blanchard & E-Collective return to Jazz Fest 2023 and the WWOZ Jazz Tent with the Turtle Island Quartet / gambit
    Posted At: May 1, 2023 12:00 AM
    Oscar nominee, six-time Grammy-winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies – past and present.From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films ranging from the documentary When the Levees Broke, about Blanchard’s hometown of New Orleans during the devastation ...
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  • Met premieres Terence Blanchard's 'Champion' / AP
    Posted At: April 6, 2023 12:00 AM
    AP's MIKE SILVERMAN writes…..When Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” proved a sell-out hit at the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, general manager Peter Gelb wasted no time lining up the composer’s other opera for the current season. And that set the clock ticking for Blanchard and his collaborators to adapt a relatively small-scale work to the vast resources of the nation’s premiere opera house. “We...
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  • Terence Blanchard set for SD performance and sold-out MLK Day conversation at UCSD / The San Diego Union-Tribune
    Posted At: January 13, 2023 12:00 AM
    Oscar nominee, six-time Grammy-winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies – past and present. From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films ranging from the documentary When the Levees Broke, about Blanchard’s hometown of New Orleans during the devast...
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  • Los Angeles Times spotlights Oscar-contending composer for 'The Woman King' ...Terence Blanchard
    Posted At: November 17, 2022 12:00 AM
    Los Angeles Times TIM GREIVING writes…The word “spectrum” came up in almost every interview with the Oscar-contending composers spotlighted in this issue. Sometimes it was about favoring the lighter or darker ends of an emotional range, or in one case honoring the continuum between female warriors from 19th century Africa and the women in a composer’s own life. With “Nope,” it was part of Jordan Peele’s who...
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  • 'The Woman King' is one of the best big Hollywood epics in some time / NO MAJESTY
    Posted At: September 30, 2022 12:00 AM
    NO MAJESTY's Paul Klein writes…Historical epics are as old as the hills, but there’s something thrilling about watching epic battles play out, knowing that there is at least a tiny amount of truth to them. Gladiator remains the high standard for taking the grain of the truth and spinning it into a huge historical yarn.Taking it’s cue from history, we find the West African kingdom of Dahomey in 1823, King Gh...
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  • The complicated history behind 'The Woman King' / TIME
    Posted At: September 15, 2022 12:00 AM
    TIME LAURA ZORNOSA…..General Nanisca, played by an imposing Viola Davis, rises slowly out of a bed of tall grass in the dead of night. Behind her, an entire army materializes silently out of the grass, each member poised with a weapon in hand. When we meet them onscreen, the Agojie—a group of women warriors who fought for the kingdom of Dahomey—are inconspicuous, keeping a low profile. But in 19th century W...
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  • Terence Blanchard to discuss 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' with WNYC: Aria Code
    Posted At: October 7, 2021 12:00 AM

    This fall, Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones became the first opera by a Black composer staged at the Metropolitan Opera. In this very special online talk, Aria Code host Rhiannon Giddens will talk with Terence about this historic premiere, his writing process and the unique challenges of staging an opera in the midst of a global pandemic.    Aria Code will also present a...
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  • Jazz and opera come together in Terence Blanchard's 'Fire' /
    Posted At: October 5, 2021 12:00 AM

    Terence Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," which opened the Metropolitan Opera's season last week, was a milestone: the company's first work by a Black composer. Two New York Times critics - Giovanni Russonello and Seth Colter Walls discuss the Metropolitan Opera's first work by a Black composer. They write....."Fire Shut Up in My Bones," which opened the Metropolitan Opera's season last we...
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  • Terence Blanchard's 'Da 5 Bloods' score makes 'COLLIDER: Top 10 of 2020'
    Posted At: December 29, 2020 12:00 AM

    The DA 5 BLOODS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE) with music composed by six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning trumpeter and composer TERENCE BLANCHARD features music written for the Spike Lee film. The soundtrack was released on Milan Records. Collider's Adam Chitwood picked the score for COLLIDER's Top 10 list. Here's his review If one word best summed up Spike Lee's Netflix movie...
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  • Pulling 'Michael Murphy's New Orleans doc all together is Terence Blanchard / LondonJazz News
    Posted At: December 22, 2020 12:00 AM

    It hits you from the moment you touch down on the tarmac – the airport in New Orleans is named after none other than their great jazz legend Louis Armstrong. And from that moment on, your visit to the Crescent City is one big immersive experience into everything from parade music, funk, hip-hop, rural Zydeco music, loud guitar-driven Americana, the singing of the Southern Baptist church – and...
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  • Terence Blanchard - DA 5 BLOODS makes 'The Quietus: Best Film Scores Of 2020'
    Posted At: December 15, 2020 12:00 AM

    While cinema releases have been upended across the industry, a wealth of film music has still impressed resident expert Charlie Brigden, who runs us through his top 10 of 2020. I don't know if it's comforting or not to read that, in this absolute shitshow of a year, the soundtrack fountain has been flowing plentifully. It's certainly helped to have a distraction, and I guess if you're goi...
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  • Terence Blanchard receives the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 77th Venice International Film Festival / JAZZIZ
    Posted At: September 4, 2020 12:00 AM

    The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz world. It's a one-stop destination for the music news you need to know. Let's take it from the top. Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard is receiving the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, which runs on September 2-12 in Italy. The award, institut...
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  • Terence Blanchard to receive Venice 'Passion' award / Variety
    Posted At: August 27, 2020 12:00 AM

    Terence Blanchard, Oscar and BAFTA-nominated for Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman," and a Grammy winner for the "Blood and Soil" track from the film's original soundtrack, will receive the Venice Film Festival's Campari "Passion for Film" award this year. Blanchard also composed the score for Lee's Netflix film "Da 5 Bloods" and Regina King's "One Night in Miami," which is playing out of competition at Venice...
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  • Terence Blanchard's songs are the perfect fit for HBO's 2020-rebooted 'Perry Mason' / Men'sHealth
    Posted At: July 17, 2020 12:00 AM

    HBO's Perry Mason is a few things all at once. It's a reboot of a property that has, at one time or another, been a series of books, a TV show, or a radio show. It's a Robert Downey Jr. passion project (and one the Avengers star is still a part of as an executive producer). It's the network's latest in a series of non-True Detective shows that are nonetheless in the True Detective spi...
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  • 'Da 5 Bloods.' Black lives matter in Vietnam / Honk News
    Posted At: July 9, 2020 12:00 AM

    Spike Lee's very new joint is an anguished, more funny, violent argument with and about the whole American history, also with an unforgettable performance from Delroy Lindo at its heart. Spike Lee's career can also be described as a lover's quarrel with American movies and with America, too. As he has demonstrated his mastery of established genres, he has also now reinvented them, pointing out the blind ...
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  • In town for his Georgia State - Rialto Center date, Terence Blanchard chats with 91.9WCLK: Atlanta
    Posted At: February 15, 2020 12:00 AM

    Terence Blanchard is in town for his performance TONIGHT at the Rialto Center and talked to UPFRONT about his numerous TV and film projects. He'll be teaming up with Raphael Saadiq this spring to score the soundtrack for NatGeo's GENIUS: ARETHA biopic starring Oscar-nominated actress Cynthia Erivo. He is also reuniting with Spike Lee for Da 5 Bloods and a reboot of Perry Mason. Blanchard also rev...
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  • Terence Blanchard's 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' to premiere at The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis / JAZZIZ
    Posted At: April 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) announced the world premiere of trumpeter-composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmons' Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the memoir of celebrated writer Charles Blow. This opera is part of OTSL's series New Works, Bold Voices, which is committed to commissioning new operas that reflect the diversity of modern American experience. Fire Shut Up in My Bone...
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  • Composer Terence Blanchard to receive BMI's Icon Award / Variety
    Posted At: April 12, 2019 12:00 AM

    Composer and jazz artist Terence Blanchard will be named a BMI Icon at the 35th annual Film, TV and Visual Media Awards of Broadcast Music Inc. on May 15 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The five-time Grammy winner and recent Oscar nominee (for "BlacKkKlansman") has long been director Spike Lee's favorite composer, having written the scores for "Malcolm X," "Inside Man," "25th Hour," the K...
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  • BlacKkKlansman score is a sophisticated piece of work / exclaim!@#$
    Posted At: March 15, 2019 12:00 AM

    With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee effectively crafted himself a cultural moment, as the film not only nabbed some serious critical praise but prestigious awards recognition as well. Of course, the director didn't do it alone, though, and one those key assists came from Terence Blanchard, who helmed the 2018 film's Grammy-winning score. Made with Blanchard's current band E-Collective and a 96-pie...
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  • A half-century's worth of JazzFest performances are set for release on new Smithsonian Folkways box / Off BEAT
    Posted At: March 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    Fans of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will be treated to a half-century's worth of live performances in a very special commemorative box CD set being released in celebration of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary. In honor of Jazz Fest's golden anniversary, Smithsonian Folkways is releasing five discs of live performances from past years' festivals. Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Herit...
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  • Blessed to be in a shithole country for PaPJazz / FRANCE 24
    Posted At: January 22, 2019 12:00 AM

    At a time when most of the world's jazz capitals are buried under snow or suffering through sub-zero temperatures, Haiti is offering fans a week of outdoor concerts showcasing the best talents in the business in a balmy Caribbean clime, the 13th edition of the Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival, running now through January 26. Now in its thirteenth year, PaPJazz, as the Festival International de J...
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  • DSO's Soluna Festival celebrates film scoring with Terence Blanchard / D Magazine
    Posted At: January 16, 2019 12:00 AM

    This morning, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced a four-week schedule of concerts, performances, and happenings for the fifth annual Soluna International Music & Arts Festival, which is coming from April 4 through April 28. While anchored by DSO performances, the festival aims to draw a connection from the lofty world of classical music to modern life in Dallas. There are a lot of intriguing...
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  • Why the 'BlacKkKlansman' score could earn Terence Blanchard his first Oscar / Los Angeles Times
    Posted At: January 12, 2019 12:00 AM

    One of the most arresting sequences in Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman" - based on the true story of an African American cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in 1970s Colorado - comes right at the beginning of the movie. It involves Alec Baldwin, as a fictional white supremacist academic, filming a kind of segregationist infomercial. As he delivers his increasingly hateful diatribe, images from D.W. Griffith...
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