Native Son (1986)

[@veeseee128]

Watched this movie on a snowy cold winter night and loved it. Great movie.

[@ladytianna7114]

I literally have been online.for 3 days searching for.this movie! Thank you.

[@dawnrobinson8302]

Thanks for the free movies NATIVE SON IS MY FIRST.

[@keishakeyanna]

My teacher in the 7th grade made us watch this film. Twenty something years later, im obsessed.

[@Snoopy_luv]

Right me too. Classic

[@lazmotron]

Thanks for sharing I've been looking for this film forever.

[@troymindwrite7850]

Just finished reading the book man, such a unfortunate tragedy and a story to last for generations to come

[@openneon9240]

this movie burns me everytime.... Bigger is Tragically stupid...

[@dwightkincy3837]

Bigger Thomas is one of the most tragic characters in literary history.

[@JorgePrietoNYC]

Just saw an Tonight Show, where Oprah tells Johnny Carson ('86) show, about this film. Thanks for uploading it, I don't remember ever watching it.

[@CJJones-zt2rp]

Jorge Prieto

[@ellage121]

80's movies were the best

[@Tisa1979]

Thanks so much for uploading this movie! I've been looking all over for this :)

[@pjman826]

40:10 bigger started the car with both his hands on the wheel. The force is strong with this one.

[@aladebumuyijoshua9025]

I like this movie, richard Wright is a great and noble author.

[@veeseee128]

Victor love should have gotten nominated for a Tony for this. Superb acting on his part.

[@naashomeburgesson7463]

thanks so much. my exams are going to be a lot easier. we're tested on this book here in Ghana

[@MrsD7777]

+Clydene Burgesson They left out a huge part of the book where Bigger threatened his girlfriend to take part in the kidnapping scheme & pick up the ransom $$$, but he killed her and threw her body down the shaft of the abandoned building they were hiding in. He was charged with her murder as well.

[@naashomeburgesson7463]

yes i figured that out. and in the book Vera collapsed. that's a very huge chunk tho. Her body was even shown to the court. and someone demonstrated how Mary was killed. oh well...

[@naashomeburgesson7463]

+MrsD7777

[@alieujassi8655]

+Clydene Burgesson sure we too iiin gambia

[@bodaciousbethany0]

He comes home a few more times & hides out a few days before getting arrested.

[@Don.Camilo]

I will never forget... 9th grade in my English class, tripping on LSD for my first time, and they played this movie. The soundtrack was so scary I had to step out of the room..

[@HOTJEMZ26]

Dmx sampled the opening theme for where my dogs at and jay z sampled the 2nd beat at the end for dead or alive

[@kayleebxtch]

Legendary

[@catholiccrusader5328]

I'm 76 and grew up on the South Side of Chicago. I grew up under those exact conditions. Let me assure you Don you'll quickly get used to it. Have a good day sir. GOD bless and stay safe.

[@tmat2024]

Well, that's LSD for ya!

[@MelanieLouM]

...and this is why I love KZbin! :)

[@MonPetitPois68]

This would make a great theatre play. Good story.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

I recognize that large mansion! When I lived in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood I went inside it that marvelous home to visit friends. It's not in Hyde Park but Kenwood the ritzy neighborhood adjoining it. By the same token when I was a kid and dirt poor I also visited fictional character Bigger's slum neighborhood. I never saw Oprah since when this movie was made I was long gone.

[@mrkayg5957]

I love the storyline. My students enjoyed every bit of it. It is a good literature book. The moral is just splendid.

[@CenkYay]

+kwadwo boakye I agree, except for one scene, in which almost every character is stuffed in Bigger's cell, that's an easy way out for Wright's didactic message and it shatters all the illusion of reality built upto that scene.

[@mrkayg5957]

I agree. Perhaps the director had a different imagery of Bigger's last life. Fate comes in many ways. You may think you are the only one in a habit, but there may be others even worse than you are. I believe that was his angle.

[@CenkYay]

+kwadwo boakye I was talking about the novel itself, not the movie. The last chaper"Fate" has that cell scene which is not convincing in respect to the "literary" realism of the text up to that moment.

[@_iggyman_]

Thanks man for movie!

[@Kalashnikingz47]

DMX brought me here.

[@zykeria777]

Who's here for assignment in AP lang

[@ROCKNROLLFAN]

I have it on VHS. Found it at the flea market 8 YEARS AGO.

[@veeseee128]

Bigger almost got away with murder until they saw Mary's bones in the oven and her ear ring. Then Bigger took off running. A sign of guilt.

[@henriettebopda5895]

He didn't murder mary..

[@veeseee128]

yes he did, DUH. @@henriettebopda5895

[@BadAxBarbie]

​@@veeseee128 no he didn't, it was involuntary manslaughter

[@michellemcdonald9294]

thanks for posting this movie

[@InnocentMiracle-rw7pq]

This movie is far more better than the other native son I have watched

[@ajaa3808]

Nigerian Literature students y’all can relate 😂😂😂

[@Travis_00007]

😂 I swear that’s why I came here again

[@Honeymellan]

loved this book did my thesis on the symbolism of the Rat

[@mariasaavedra8900]

What was your thesis?

[@JacariJacobs]

yeah ^

[@rikoprada22]

Kim M. Sammmmmme

[@samjohnson994]

I don't believe you. So many people & u choose a rodent. Why cream-puff ?

[@samjohnson994]

Even the rats eat the crumbs that the destitute drop from the table. And grow / prosper in the space u share w / them. While you sleep they get fat fatter the fatter ; fastest. They mean no harm yet r so hated & horrifically despised until u want them gone or terminated. Hmmmm

[@blestmusician2a.k.a.robert263]

The music in the beginning reminds me of def jam vendetta.

[@dawnrobinson8302]

And DMX USED THAT DEMO WITH THE ALBUM CRADLE TO THE GRAVE

[@ChaitanyaParab]

@@dawnrobinson8302 ohh damn I was about to say this, and this intro also sounds a bit of it's dark and hell is hot

[@GoblinGirl]

I thought this was a bad film. It's not great, but it's better than the 2019 version, which completely destroyed the structure of the novel and is an insult to Richard Wright.

[@veeseee128]

Just like mice and men Lenny the big dumb guy accidentally killed a woman because he didn't want her to scream just like Bigger did in this movie to keep the white family's daughter quiet.

[@petej7002]

Richard wright may have took some inspiration

[@InnocentMiracle-rw7pq]

I read this book during my secondary days and it interested me to watch the movie and I confess this movie is very similar to what I read in the book.

[@veeseee128]

Something else I wanted to add is that I think Bigger was the main victim in this story. He became a victim of his fear and ignorance of white folks. He just wasn't ready for the situation Mary put him in. If she hadn't made him go to the loop things might have turned out differently. And yes as I said before his fear became his downfall.

[@BadAxBarbie]

I agree. She meant well but she didn't realize it was too soon for these things.

[@danielleluma4681]

im reading this book for school

[@veeseee128]

Damn good movie thank u for posting this. One of my favorite scenes Oprah- Bigger? Bigger- Uhhhnn!!! 2:24

[@terrylinwe1070]

this firm is so relevant. I love💘it Ooouu !!!😅😅

[@Karss]

You’ll See The Real Bebop one day!

[@tmat2024]

Still couldn't understand how ma didnt sense someone else in the room. A FATAL flaw in the plot!!!!

[@bcoop85]

Great movie! I call for a remake

[@rodneyleedavis6375]

2019 HBO version

[@veeseee128]

Bigger was so scared of white folks. And that became his downfall. I will explain, when he brought his boss's daughter back to her room he should have explained what happened. Its better to lose your job than your life. Why I say that? Because he didn't have to suffocate her to keep her quiet. She ended up dead from what he did and Bigger ended up getting the death penalty. When she pressured him to go where her dad told her not to go. He should have ignored her. As soon as he got back he should have let her father know what she tried to make him do. Bigger didnt think. Bigger was a coward and a tragic victim of his fear. He had no backbone. One of m favorite movies but such a tragic story.

[@petej7002]

Perfectly worded . Its like today when kids confess to crimes because of their fears of harsher punishment (central park 5) or when kids join gangs because of their fears of other gangs. Bigger was a coward , and he ruined three lives because of it. It maybe a byproduct of not having his father . But let us be clear , bigger was on trial and not the black race.

[@dawnrobinson8302]

Brother those were different times, he didn't have to be a coward and in my opinion it wasn't about the job,he was already bogus for hanging with them like he was their equal, so getting caught in a white women's bed was death by hanging, a Black Man was thought of as inhumane, they would have chained Bigger on the back of a truck and dragged down they highway, being afraid is a human emotion. Justfoodforthought PEACE OUT

[@dawnrobinson8302]

It's kind of naive in you to think he could have walked in that house with their pure white daughter cradle in his black SUB HUMAN ARMS. AT THAT QE COULDN'T USE THE SAME POOP HOLE ,AGAIN

[@starchildofthe90s7]

this is also black mens need and thirst for white approval. He should have quit when that white woman took an interest other than work with him. But the white women will always be the black mans downfall. Its happening today in 2023 everyday. ( Kanye, tiger woods, oj simpson, the one that got stabbed to death by his wyte girlfriend the list goes on b Blk men take the biggest L’s behind whyte wimens. Its sad really they never learn ….. o well

[@spraycreationsbyajtanthony9490]

This was based in NYC not Mississippi pretty sure they weren't lynching people black people in the middle of harlem

[@craiwarren7649]

This is a great movie I can't wait to read the book 😁🤯😱, please name drop any relatable books as this, my new year resolution is to read more

[@izettahaynes2465]

I have to read this book for summer reading. I have the book now but I want to watch the movie also.

[@lf4227]

Native Son is not only a high quality protest type novel, but it's also very existentialist. Along the same lines as Native Son is Albert Camus's The Stranger, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and even in some ways, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.

[@juliacoats5828]

another great book that I read recently which I find amazing is called The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson! It is a phenomenal realistic fiction book.

[@juliacoats5828]

it takes place in the deep south as well as other famous places at the time- namely Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.

[@Waverly91898]

The 1619 Project

[@bridgetforiwaah5406]

This very great i love it.

[@chanteledwards3615]

thanks for this!

[@1906tpir]

Look Bigger theres a man outside.........Bigger cowards into the corner......"I don't want to see no-body"...!! Who hasn't felt that way before in life?

[@tulayamalavenapi4028]

But the smell of a burning body is totally overlooked.... 🤔

[@cribs3819]

in the book this is addressed. he turned on the fan, for fear of the family smelling the body.

[@michaelpeterson1482]

The metaphor for the opening scene with the killing of the rat flys over the conditioned minds of most.

[@donteverwonder2024]

It doesn’t.

[@cedricliggins7528]

Huh?

[@maliabicoy2802]

kay but why was this music such a vibe

[@cyrusshah6175]

Dmx

[@HOTJEMZ26]

Yup where my dogs at and jay z for dead or alive

[@alieujassi8655]

this book is eaasy to me now because i will have exam on it by tomorrow tans for shariing it.

[@xamotkobra-la3121]

lol hope you passed the exam this movie left out A LOT of important details

[@bodaciousbethany0]

Flunk

[@MPG92]

I love that song starting at 1:49:14, if only I knew the name of it.

[@Red20450]

Is called “Bigger’s Theme” here’s the link to it kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKLLmoCQZtZnl7c

[@MPG92]

@@Red20450 Thanks! I appreciate it.

[@MPG92]

@@Red20450 ....I sure feel like a dummy. I just recently found out (via the link you sent me) that theme is already in the video's description lol. The start of the theme in the description is strikingly different from how the theme starts in the credits so it threw me off and I just presumed they were two different songs. But after completely hearing it out from beginning to end in the link, I realized I "jumped the gun" lol. Once again though, thank you.

[@xamotkobra-la3121]

good movie the book was way better as usual lol

[@dexterlang1403]

Much much better

[@ferdinandniyoyitungira5415]

How did KZbin know I want it?

[@cedricliggins7528]

The book was fine up until Boris Max's speech which was tedious and long winded

[@artarealmblazer]

DMX It's Dark And Hell Is Hot Intro.

[@TheLuna12346]

Does this accurately portray the book? I don't have time to finish the book and didn't want to get caught referencing to the movie and the movie deviate from the book.

[@kafenwar]

+TheLuna12346 No, not really. This film is only slightly better than the previous disaster made by Wright himself. Bigger Thomas in the book comes off as hard and cold-blooded. In this adaptation he is like Stepinfetchit.

[@RoboBops]

+TheLuna12346 Nope, they skipped the whole part of him killing and raping bessie. It's crazy. The police knew about is dead girlfriend but only used the black girl's death to pile on chrges so he would be sure to get the death penalty. Sorry for my english. It's an awesome book, I'm telling you to read it!!

[@nonyafourthreetwoonezero7350]

+kafenwar "hard and cold-blooded" -- or better, scared

[@kafenwar]

nonya fourthreetwoonezero He was both. Hard and cold-blooded towards his people and scared of whites, which he carefully concealed.

[@Hadassah29]

Seems like that hasn't change much in this day and time .

[@alakaayomide8223]

this movie is so interesting

[@nms5476]

There is missing scenes and details yet the other parts are good adoption of the novel

[@LordZakar]

DJ Premier and Edo G brought me here #primo #edo

[@TheYoli182]

Who is that?

[@tashamcafee6455]

Is the cast of the color purple in this , too! …

[@Terronr403]

Yes

[@angelaboakye7578]

brilliant movie

[@GoblinGirl]

11:57 Ving Rhames.

[@alvnlaryea6092]

Awesome mhern✋

[@atthetable8798]

He did not even wash his hands after holding that rodent's tail. She is hard on him , I Feel for the older son, the way she yells at him is awful.

[@naecrest5151]

Healthy Tips he was licking his fingers too 😷

[@sebnemsencaglayan8746]

Omg the book made me so nervous especially the part of Mary's death

[@lorrainewilliams4950]

Wow! Thanks for this!

[@janhrubin4595]

I'm now reading "Uncle Tom's Children", and I see that the black main character messing up, unintentionally or impulsively killing a white person and ending up in a hellish situation because of it, was pretty much Wright's main go-to plot device. Not to say that it doesn't disturb me, though.

[@sulleyphateemat3794]

nice video wld write an exams on it next month

[@트윈픽스]

Bigger Thomas

[@MoniqueWilson-z7j]

Arrested Development… victim of circumstance…

[@bailorbarrie4172]

interesting story

[@GigglesDaDevil]

Ok now I am depressed

[@xamotkobra-la3121]

if you read the book it will have a bigger impact...

[@GigglesDaDevil]

+XAMOT KOBRA-LA I'll keep that in mind 👍🏽

[@xamotkobra-la3121]

no pun intended

[@breezywheezy6879]

it is depressing.... didn't Oprah have a jacked up son on Brewster place.. in that movie. He was in jail too and did her wrong.

[@GigglesDaDevil]

Brenda Whittaker yeah .. she lost the house and everything

[@MoniqueWilson-z7j]

This is what poverty does to ignorant human beings.

[@AnthonyFlowers-pt9dr]

Not poverty! He was raised in the south backkk then , moved up north and still felt Jim crow!

[@cedricliggins7528]

Poverty is a curse

[@BadAxBarbie]

They look older than 19.

[@Amazin11000]

DMX

[@HOTJEMZ26]

Yup where my dogs at and jay z for dead or alive

[@veeseee128]

U are poor if all u have for breakfast is toast. That's poor!

[@tmat2024]

Po'

[@AnthonyFlowers-pt9dr]

But yall dont see the white maid?? Ok

[@1906tpir]

NO LEAVE IT ALONE!!!

[@Marvilloso]

8:05 jay z and sauce money dead or alive 1 and 2 2pac diss

[@saanzacs]

Oprah as his mother steals the film

[@craigkatz350]

bigger thinks she's hot

[@rachelleflores9889]

Does it show the death of Bessie, Bigger's girlfriend? If so, at what time?

[@odetochef]

That's the same question I have; it doesn't look like it. Also, the way Mary is put into the furnace is different in this movie than from the book.

[@shesvalued]

when they remade this movie and asthon sanders played in the movie, it was a real good movie, from the moment he opened his mouth i said, give him his awards, asap!

[@cajunpower]

2nd - 1:03:18

[@automatedinsanity]

1:47:45

[@Ackira]

Lace da booms - Glory

[@SuperJimmielee]

Bigger was a coward.

[@AnthonyFlowers-pt9dr]

Pwrfet example of us (black people! Walkin on egg shells with white folks....and its 2024 happy new year 🎉

[@vanessawilliams8818]

.H.O.P.E.L.E.S.S.N.E.S.S.....💀💀💀💀

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Racist is EVIL! Why it persists still baffles the hell out of me. We are all EQUAL!

[@shellysmith1542]

non ono

[@shellysmith1542]

yeuyeu

[@MoniqueWilson-z7j]

This movie is so twisted too… is it a true crime.

[@MoniqueWilson-z7j]

?

[@cedricliggins7528]

Yes

[@MoniqueWilson-z7j]

So sad… so ignorant… so fear based…

[@AnthonyFlowers-pt9dr]

2 out 3 I've seen! Book wAyyyy better

[@AnthonyFlowers-pt9dr]

Richard wright plAyed the original bigger!!!! Highly recommend the book

[@AnthonyFlowers-pt9dr]

Also 😂😂 why I don't mess with snow bunnies

[@narghora]

I like when he calls the father sir and his daughter mam. :-)))

[@SuperJimmielee]

Why

[@cajunpower]

1 - 32:52

[@InnocentMiracle-rw7pq]

This movie is far more better than the other native son I have watched

[@BadAxBarbie]

If you mean the one with Richard Wright himself in it I'd say both of 'em had their merits. I really liked the performance of Jan in the older version although the author playing Bigger was a bad idea imo, he was way old.

[@cajunpower]

3rd - 1:16:35

[@cajunpower]

4th - 1:31:32