Flecked with the bold sensibilities of hip-hop, struggle, and swagger, in a way, it’s a bit remarkable that no one, until now, has really tried to wed the parallel ideas of street hustle and grind to the hardscrabble, life-is-cheap ways of the Wild Wild West and yet without making a big thing about it. Because in the stylish, rhythmic, epic big-budget Western “The Harder They Fall,” directed by Jeymes Samuel and produced by Jay-Z (whose refined and unflappably trendsetting music sensibilities seem to saturate the film), everybody is trying to get theirs.

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Martyrs demark the African-American experience. The documented lineage began with Emmett Till’s murder, his ravaged visage strewn across Jet Magazine’s issues, and continued through Medgar Evers’ assassinations, the four girls in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and a cruel, etc. Fred Hampton, the gifted Chairman of Chicago’s Black Panther chapter, occupies a space in this timeline. Located just after Malcolm but before the ceaseless stream, we see today.  

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Hampton only lived until twenty-one.

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Watch: BAFTA’s 8-Minute Crash Course On The Importance Of Cinematography

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Watch: 6-Minute Ode To 21st Century Cinematographers

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Watch: Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt Talks Shooting Best Picture Winner '12 Years A Slave' In 15-Minute Video

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'The Grandmaster,' 'Gravity, '12 Years A Slave' & More Earn ASC Nominations, No 'Wolf' Or 'Hustle'

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Watch: Safe For Work Trailer For 'Oldboy,' Spike Lee Hires '12 Years A Slave' DP Sean Bobbit For 'Da Blood Of Jesus'

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Derek Cianfrance Convinced Bradley Cooper Not To Drop Out Of ‘Place Beyond The Pines’; His DP Nearly Died On Set & More

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On The Rise: 5 Cinematographers To Watch In 2013

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