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9 Essential James Earl Jones Performances
Jones was best when he was reserved, trusting his extraordinary voice and quiet authority to carry the dramatic weight of any scene.
John Sayles hasn’t made a movie in 11 years, but for several decades he was sort of an American Mike Leigh: A liberal filmmaker telling political stories that illustrated the human cost of unchecked capitalism — and the battles fought for regular people. This story of a coal miners’ strike is one of his better films, with union organizers combining Italian and Black laborers in West Virginia to wage an ultimate bloody war against their exploitative bosses. Its mythic story and catchy tunes were central to the appeal, but you can’t deny the power of hearing Jones’s voice coming out of the mouth of that mighty lion — a noble king whose murder by his evil brother is, for a generation, as traumatizing as the death of Bambi’s mom.
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