#charles fuller

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright/screenwriter Charles Fuller (March 5, 1939 – October 3, 2022)

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A Soldier's Story (1984). An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

While it'll never quite stack up when it comes to the In the Heat of the Night comparisons (the two films share a director and thematic throughline after all), this is still an excellent, intelligent thriller grounded in great performances and a sharp script. Denzel Washington's the clear standout (I can't believe this is only his second feature!), but he's bolstered by a great cast all around. Just a really great watch. 8/10.

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A SOLDIER'S PLAY just won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play! Congrats to playwright Charles Fuller and Roundabout Theatre Company!

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'A Soldier's Play,' Bravura Performances by Blair Underwood and David Alan Grier

‘A Soldier’s Play,’ Bravura Performances by Blair Underwood and David Alan Grier

(L to R): David Alan Grier, Blair Underwood, Billy Eugene Jones in ‘A Soldier’s Play, by Charles Fuller, directed by Kenny Leon, Roundabout Theatre Company, American Airlines Theatre (Joan Marcus)

When the Negro Ensemble Company presented Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Playin its Off Broadway premiere in 1981, the production garnered a number of theater awards and Fuller won a Pulitzer Prize for…

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Adolph Caesar in A Soldier’s Story (1984)

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You know the damage one ignorant Negro can do? We were in France in the first war; we'd won decorations. But the white boys had told all them French gals that we had tails. Then they found this ignorant colored soldier, paid him to tie a tail to his ass and run around half-naked, making monkey sounds. Put him on the big round table in the Cafe Napoleon, put a reed in his hand, crown on his head, blanket on his shoulders, and made him eat *bananas* in front of all them Frenchies. Oh, how the white boys danced that night... passed out leaflets with that boy's picture on it. Called him Moonshine, King of the Monkeys. And when we slit his throat, you know that fool asked us what he had done wrong?

Master Sergeant Vernon Waters