Queen Alex Haley (also known as Queen ) is a 1993 American television miniseries aired in three installments in February 14, 16, and 18 on CBS. Miniseries are an adaptation of Queen's novel: The Story of American Family, by Alex Haley and David Stevens. This novel is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, Hallyy's paternal grandmother. Alex Haley died in February 1992 before completing the novel. It was later completed by David Stevens and published in 1993. Stevens also wrote a screenplay for the miniseries.
Queen Alex Haley directed by John Erman, and starring Halle Berry in the title role. It tells the life story of a young woman and it shows the problem that the biracial slave and former slaves encountered in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout her life, the Queen has struggled to enter into two heritage heritage cultures, and sometimes each side avoids her.
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Plot
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The series begins with a friendly relationship between James Jackson Jr., the son of the planter, and one of the slaves, the Passover, on the Jackson plantation, known as the Forks of Cypress, near Florence in northern Alabama. James and Easter have grown together (within the socio-cultural boundaries of plantations), and gradually their feelings with each other have developed into romance. Easter is the daughter of an African-American slave, Captain Jack, and her true love, Annie, another slave, a part-Cherokee, and who is no longer in Jackson's property.
James Jackson Sr., an Irish immigrant who has accumulated great fortunes, became ill and soon died. A few minutes after James Jr.'s death retreated to the comfort of the weaving house, where Easter was born, and where he lived and worked. James and Easter made love, then, a few months later, when they were alone, Easter revealed to her that she was pregnant with her child. Meanwhile, Sally Jackson, the new widow, encourages her son, James Jr., to marry a rich, respected heir and has social equality, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Perkins, the daughter of a neighboring grower.
On April 8, 1841, Easter gave birth to a healthy girl. Excited about his new grandson, Captain Jack announces to his family and friends at dinner in the "big house" that a slave boy is just born, and he assures James, "Easter is fine". It was not fun Lizzie, who was there for dinner, and who soon became James's fiancee. Lizzie, having concluded that the new baby was James's son, excused himself from the table and tossed it. Moments later she swears to her mother that she will never marry him, but her mother persuades her otherwise. Captain Jack begins to call the baby a Princess, but, when James enters birth in a notebook, he writes the name Queen . He also left an empty section for the father's name.
James proposed a marriage with Lizzie the next night, Lizzie accepted, and the marriage took place at home sometime later. James continues to visit Easter at night, sometimes every night, during his engagement and marriage. Although James is Lizzie's husband, she still loves Easter. Later, Lizzie learned that she was pregnant. She and James welcomed a daughter, Jane, who the Queen came and served. Although Jane and Queen are half-brothers, the family does not recognize the relationship (because of Queen's status as a slave).
James then persuades Easter to let the Queen live in the main house, where she can receive training as a female maid. Both Easter and Lizzie oppose the plan, but James's words are final, so by age 5 the Queen moves to the mansion. Jane and Queen grew up as friends and playmates. However, other slave boys tease and torture the Queen because of her bright skin and her ability to read and write. In 1860, a few years later, two young women, Queen and Jane, had grown up, and they began to attract the attention of young men in Florence.
In the following year, 1861, Alabama broke away from the United States, North Korea declared war on the South, and James entered the Confederate Army and headed north. While James drove in the cavalry unit, Easter confirmed to the Queen that he was his "little boy". On July 21, 1861, during the First Battle of Bull Run, in Prince William County, Virginia, near Manassas, James suffered an injury that caused him to be fired and sent back home. When James got home, he learned that Jane, his lawful daughter, had died during the epidemic of diphtheria, and he reached the weaving house just moments after Easter too, with the Queen beside him, dying of diphtheria.
The queen continued to serve the aging women, Sally and Lizzie, in the mansion, and, without the presence of a supervisor, took over the functions as well, watching over the remaining field hands, after half of them went and went north.
Soon James forms a regiment, accepts promotion to the rank of colonel, and returns to war. Eventually the Armed Forces reached Florence and the Jackson plantation, where the Northern army looted and robbed, destroying the property recklessly, insulting the women and slaves, and torturing the slaves, for whose interests they claimed to have fought to liberate them.
During another battle, Colonel Jackson suffered another injury, which led to his right arm amputation without any kind of anesthesia. Captain Jack died as a free man, with Sally Jackson and Queen beside him.
Missus Jackson advised the Queen to go wherever she wanted among the blacks, saying that there was no food and no place for her on the estate, and that she could not expect help from them, even though there was a known connection between the Queen and the Jackson family. The queen, however, strongly objected, insisting that the plantation is her home, and they are her family. Parson Dick, another slave there, warned the Queen of the difficulties awaiting mulattoes, quadroons, and octoroons in a new free society.
Part 2
Mr. Henderson, the former supervisor, and his wife left the Jackson plantation, and they are now running the nearest grocery store, where young white men get along, and James trades. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, however, freely insulted James and Queen.
After an unpleasant confrontation in the shop with Mrs. Henderson and with some tough young white men, the Queen escapes and hides out until the next morning, then, tired and hungry, she goes home. Queen and Lizzie exchanged harsh words, and the Queen left. While Queen stopped at her mother's grave, Missus Jackson said goodbye and gave some money to her. James and Queen met in the driveway in front of the house when James returned from a long search for the Queen that morning. They spoke for a while, then the Queen kept walking away.
Queen realized in Florence how easy she "graduated" as a white woman, so she decided to do it; there he bought a one-way ticket and climbed one or more horse-drawn trains (on an unlikely journey) to Charleston, South Carolina.
In the communal kitchen, the Queen meets Alice, another white woman who is also white. Alice befriended the Queen, took her to her apartment, cleaned it up, taught her about her passing, and took her to a white dance hall, where she met a white male friend Alice, George, who got Queen a job at the florist.
While at work, the Queen met Digby, a former wounded Confederate army, who quickly fell in love with her and immediately applied for her. The Queen accepted, then told Alice, who insisted that such a marriage would be stupid and urged the Queen to break the engagement.
The queen, naive and strong-willed, decides to go to Digby's apartment, intending to break the engagement. Digby, after a startling change, begins to seduce the Queen with the help of a dose of laudanum. While Queen objects and refuses, she blurts that she is a Negro. Digby then flies into an anger, punches, rapes her, and drives her away.
The Queen returns to Alice, who also expels her, to protect her own position and reputation. The next day, after a miserable night at a camp of black homeless people, the Queen stumbles into a black church meeting, where she receives much help from a kindhearted woman, who then takes her to the home of two righteous people and sanctimonious. spinster, Misses Mandy, and Giffery, who employed the Queen as a housemaid.
A few days later, Davis, the gardener and former slave, arrives in the backyard to find work. Queen and Davis start a friendship, which turns into romance and produces a pregnancy. The first queen seeks an abortion, then she decides to take care of the child, so she confronts Davis, who invites her to meet him at the train station, perhaps to head north.
Although the Queen waited at the station until the evening, Davis failed to show up, so she sadly returned to the old servant. Miss Mandy branded her a bad, mischievous and sinful girl who fell, but she and Miss Giffery allowed her to stay. In due course, the two elderly maids, who served as midwives, attended the birth of a healthy boy. Queen wants to name him David , but both women prefer the name Abner . A white priest baptized the baby, presumably, as Abner. Misses Mandy and Giffery increasingly took over Abner, apparently intending to raise him as if he were alone. Finally, one night, the Queen escapes and heads north with Abner who is six months old on her arm.
Part 3
At a junction shop and lunchroom, the Queen meets with Mrs. Benson, an upper middle-class mother of a 15-month-old son, for whom she needs a wet nurse. They boarded the Benson house, in Beaufort, South Carolina, which is in the south, not north, Charleston (and on the way to Savannah, Georgia, but not in a direct way to Savannah, Tennessee, Queen's destination).
When Queen and Ny. Benson arrives in Beaufort, they meet Mr. Benson amid a throng of angry black slaves, attacking more pay and respect, under the vocal persuasion and agitation of Davis, Abner's father. Then the Queen finds Davis, confronts her, scolds her for having abandoned her and Abner. They finally do reconciliation.
Mrs. Benson tricked the Queen and used her and Abner in such a way as to allow Mr. Benson, a leader among the local Ku Klux Klan, to find and capture Davis. Mrs. Benson, who pretends to be concerned about Davis's security, urges the Queen to abandon Abner safely and rushes to Davis and warns him that he is in danger of a "terrible job" of the Klan. The Queen departs, and a Clan follows. When the Queen returns to Benson's house, she learns that Abner is not there, and Mrs. Benson said that Abner "did the Lord's work tonight". The next morning, the Queen goes to Davis's cabin, where she finds her charred and charred body, along with Abner, inside a wooden chicken coop at her father's feet.
In the next scene, Queen and Abner, now about two years old, walk together and, near Savannah, Hardin County, Tennessee, board a small wooden ferry boat, where they meet Alec Haley, who operates the ferry, with his son Henry. While crossing the river, Alec asks Queen where she wants to go, and she replies, "North". Alec feels the general nature of the Queen's situation and his motives.
Alec gently persuades Queen to ascend back to the south side, saying that in the North she will only find "cold weather and cold Yankees", so the Queen agrees. Immediately Alec introduces Queen to Dora, the cook at Mr. Cherry, a widower, where he got a job as a maid.
The queen, contemplating her regrettable experience, adopted a defensive and unpleasant attitude, which became clear to everyone around her. Dora tells him, "It's time you find out who your friends are, Missy", and Mr. Cherry told him, "You are the most tasteless waiter I ever had". Then Alec describes himself as "never speaking peace to a living soul" and "hating the world for whatever the world does to you". However, the Queen responds to helpful words by allowing the friendship to develop between Alec and herself and by changing her attitude. Mr. Cherry immediately commented, "She really turned this old place on when she smiled", and suggested, "Hope it continues".
The relationship between Queen and Alec grew into romance, which resulted not only in marriage, where Mr. Cherry gives the bride away, but also, eventually, the birth of another child, who names Queen as Simon. The Queen expresses a high expectation for Simon's future, and she predicts that she will be "extraordinary".
When Simon finished sixth grade, the point where the black boys in the South usually (in subject settings) drop out to start full-time work in the fields, as did Henry and Abner, Simon's teacher commented to the Queen that he was a "disciple best in the district ". Alec vigorously argues with the Queen against Simon to stay at school, but the Queen presents a persuasive logic, and he eventually agrees to "wasting" one of the three sons. [In high school the US generally did not exist until about 1910, and they started in a bigger, richer city.]
One day the Queen invites Abner and Simon back to Forks of Cypress, Jackson's estate, to show where she grew up and to share her childhood memories. When they got there, the funeral for James Jackson, his father, happened, and he paid his respect from a distance. The Queen then shows her children a weaving house, where she lives as a girl, along with her mother's Easter tomb and Jackson's house. Inside the house Lizzie Jackson greeted her bitterly and told her that she was not there, because the house was never really her home. The Queen quickly leaves, feeling more sad and rejected by the white side of her family.
In time Simon became the first black kid in Savannah to finish elementary school, and, after another major strife at home, Simon began making plans to go to a regular school in Memphis, Tennessee.
Furthermore, Abner announced that he also wanted to go into the world to make his own way. Alec reluctantly agreed, but Queen objected, probably partly because of his bitter memories of the moment when two spinster in Charleston tried to bring Abner away from him.
The confrontation leads to a conflict between the Queen in one hand and Alec and Abner on the other, where the Empress emotionally reveals to Abner that Alec is not her real father. Still feeling irritated and restless and letting his feelings distract him, while turning on the wood burner stove, the Queen causes or allows a flame to ignite, which in turn ignites her long dress. The queen ran out of the house and into the surrounding forest. The fire in the dress was extinguished, and the Queen only suffered minor physical injuries. However, no doubt remembering the horrific scene in which he found the charred and strangled body of Davis hanging from the snare, the Empress experienced emotional, mental, or psychological trauma, which then led Alec to do him to a mental-health institution, in Bolivar, Tennessee, around 50 miles from home.
Alec realized, and he told Queen and Abner separately that the Queen's psychological problems resulted from certain events in his life that he had never discussed with Alec or anyone else.
After a couple of weeks in the sad "crazy asylum", someone on the staff sent a request from the Queen to Mr. Cherry to visit him. During a meeting at the hospital, the Queen politely and humbly informed her former employer of Abner's desire to "find her own place in the world". But Queen and Alec have given all their money to Simon for her school, so the Queen asks Mr. Cherry for a $ 50 loan, which she happily approves. Queen crying thank you and return obediently to her room.
Soon the Queen decides that she must go home, so she can see her children when they leave, and she convinces the responsible man that the time is right. Alec picked it up and took it home by train. Queen and Alec invite Abner and Simon to board a ferry across the Tennessee River and, on the west side of the river, they put their children on a train to Memphis, about 116 miles west of Savannah.
Back home, the elderly couple sits on the front porch, and the Queen begins to tell Alec about her life, beginning with time as a slave girl with Jane on the Jackson plantation.
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Cast
Home media
The series was released on VHS in August 1993 and later released on DVD in 2008.
Rating and audience
Miniseries averaged 23.9 ratings and 37% shares for three parts.
^ [a] Part I was shown a week before parts II and III were ranked.
Awards
- Won
Emmy Award:
- Achievement of Individual Achievers in Hair and Beauty Salon for Mini or Special Serial - Linda De Andrea
Image Awards
- Extraordinary Movie Television or Mini-Series
- Best Actor in a Television Movie or Serial Mini - Danny Glover
- Best Actress in a Television Movie or Serial Mini - Halle Berry
- Nominated
Golden Globe Awards
- Best Performance by Actress in Supporting Role in Series, Mini Series or Mobile Image Made for TV - Ann-Margret
Emmy Awards:
- Extraordinary Miniseries
- Extraordinary Supporting Actress in Mini or Special Series - Ann-Margret
- Extraordinary Individual Achievement in Costume Design for Miniseries or Special
- Extraordinary Individual Achievement in Makeup for Miniseries or Special
- Extraordinary Individual Achievement in Voice Editing for Miniseries or Special
- Extraordinary Individual Achievement in Voice Mix for Miniseries or Special
- Extraordinary Individual Achievement in Editing for Miniseries or Special - Single Camera Production
See also
- Roots (miniseries 1977)
- Roots: Next Generation
- List of movies that feature slavery
References
External links
- Queen on IMDb
- Queen Alex Haley at AllMovie
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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