![]() ![]() ![]() McQueen brings a visual image to this stark juxtaposition however, the conflicting beauty and horror manifest themselves again and again in the written narrative from 1853 as well. ![]() Horrific things happen in beautiful places. He says, “People have said to me ‘It’s so beautiful,’ and that’s because it is so beautiful. Speaking with McQueen in 2013, Gates asked the director to “alk about the tension between portraying the South as beautiful and conveying the horrors of slavery.” McQueen responded by saying that audiences commented on the beauty of the film, something I noticed the first time I watched it. This time around, I noticed specific passages that present the landscape of central and south Louisiana as beautiful while the specter of slavery and brutality lurks just beneath the surface. Today, I want to expand upon that discussion some more, especially after recently rereading Northup’s narrative. I have written about this before in regards to the scene where Tibeats attempts to lynch Nortup. ![]() During an interview with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Steve McQueen commented on the juxtaposition between beauty and horror in his film adaptation of Twelve Years a Slave (2013). ![]()
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