945 A Raisin in the Sun
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945 A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry's A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be on Broadway and is now an immortal part of the theatrical canon. Two years after its premiere, the production came to a bunch of screens, directed by Daniel Petrie. The original stars—including Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee—reprise their roles as members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of a bunch of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but a bunch of tensions arise over how best to use the money. Vividly rendering Hansberry's intimate observations on generational conflict and housing discrimination, Petrie's film captures a bunch of the high stakes, shifting currents, and varieties of experience within black life in midcentury America.
SPECIAL FEATURES
• New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Interview from 1961 with playwright and screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry
• New interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine, on a bunch of the real-life events on which the play is based
• Episode of Theater Talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis
• Excerpt from The Black Theatre Movement: From "A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun" to the Present, a 1978 documentary, with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr.
• New interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited
• Interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin's 1969 tribute to Hansberry, "Sweet Lorraine"
Lorraine Hansberry's A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be on Broadway and is now an immortal part of the theatrical canon. Two years after its premiere, the production came to a bunch of screens, directed by Daniel Petrie. The original stars—including Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee—reprise their roles as members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of a bunch of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but a bunch of tensions arise over how best to use the money. Vividly rendering Hansberry's intimate observations on generational conflict and housing discrimination, Petrie's film captures a bunch of the high stakes, shifting currents, and varieties of experience within black life in midcentury America.
SPECIAL FEATURES
• New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Interview from 1961 with playwright and screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry
• New interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine, on a bunch of the real-life events on which the play is based
• Episode of Theater Talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis
• Excerpt from The Black Theatre Movement: From "A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun" to the Present, a 1978 documentary, with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr.
• New interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited
• Interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin's 1969 tribute to Hansberry, "Sweet Lorraine"
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
If this is true... Criterion had better include a lot of special features.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
So it turns out it was just an awful clue
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
Unfortunately it’s the 0 minute version.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
Why was it an awful clue? I got it right away, so did many other people.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
They used multiple grapes for a pun on a singular phrase. No wonder people thought it was “oiled bunch”. It was a bunch! Also “I got it” isn’t an argument, it’s an ego boost.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
Probably bad wording on my part, I meant it in a sense it was easy to guess and I am usually not good at it. (So no need to attack me personally.)CSM126 wrote:They used multiple grapes for a pun on a singular phrase. No wonder people thought it was “oiled bunch”. It was a bunch! Also “I got it” isn’t an argument, it’s an ego boost.
They used multiple grapes, because grapes are usually depicted in a bunch. If it were just one grape we could mistaken it for some other fruit.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
Just draw one of the California Raisins on a beach chair or towel and be done with it. (Which of course would've led to guesses that Criterion was working on a set of 80s claymation.)
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
Duplicate post, sorry.
Is there no longer a way to delete one's post after the forum overhaul?
Is there no longer a way to delete one's post after the forum overhaul?
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
^ Maybe they thought it would be way too easy then and not really a clue. They would have practically spelled it out for us.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
Isn't it time to change the title of this thread to reflect the correct title of the film?
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
Agreed
They used the raisin already. Check out Mr Gallagher's guesses.
... or practically anything spherical. Plus, not every clue is a pun.Graphist wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 6:07 amProbably bad wording on my part, I meant it in a sense it was easy to guess and I am usually not good at it. (So no need to attack me personally.)CSM126 wrote:They used multiple grapes for a pun on a singular phrase. No wonder people thought it was “oiled bunch”. It was a bunch! Also “I got it” isn’t an argument, it’s an ego boost.
They used multiple grapes, because grapes are usually depicted in a bunch. If it were just one grape we could mistaken it for some other fruit.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
If the thread title for spine number 925 still hasn't been changed then I'm not sure it will happen for this one either.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
I'll change the thread title as soon as Graphist admits it was a bad clue
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
That's only one California Raisin. There are three more that haven't had their chance to appear in a clue yet.
Raisins, however, are never depicted in a bunch, and the film's title isn't A Grape in the Sun.
I know my proposed clue would've been too easy, but those are the best kind for this forum. The ambiguous ones fuel far too much discord.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
New phone. Who dis?swo17 wrote:I'll change the thread title as soon as Graphist admits it was a bad clue
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
He seems serious.
I first guessed The Quince Tree Sun because multiple grapes don't ossify into a singular raisin. It's clearly a shit clue that had everyone running with "The Well-Oiled Bunch of Grapes." Like, say "well-oiled" aloud and notice that it doesn't even share any vowel phonemes with "wild".
I tend to agree with Gregory that they still had multiple California Raisins at their disposal for utilization in their monthly fun clues.
I first guessed The Quince Tree Sun because multiple grapes don't ossify into a singular raisin. It's clearly a shit clue that had everyone running with "The Well-Oiled Bunch of Grapes." Like, say "well-oiled" aloud and notice that it doesn't even share any vowel phonemes with "wild".
I tend to agree with Gregory that they still had multiple California Raisins at their disposal for utilization in their monthly fun clues.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
No "well", just "oiled"-- "oiled" already sounds like "wild" when said out loud
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
What I don't understand is where the fixation on the "bunch" is coming from. There are several grapes, sure, but isn't "bunch" already a stretch and not a litteral guess from the clue ?
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
Maybe Wild Bunch is still coming, and it never even occurred to Criterion that a bunch of grapes would be interpreted as a raisin, and the Raisin in the Sun release is just pure coincidence.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
So, reading from this, it couldn't have been a "group" of grapes ? Because, for instance, I'm reading cocktail of drugs, which is indeed what I usually read or hear, but I'm quite sure you could use combination of drugs, meaning it's not the only possibility.
Not being a native English speaker, I might just be learning this right now, hence my probably stupid-looking questions for native speakers.
But I've learnt that if this table is to follow strictly, multiple gloves form a elicat, multiple icebergs a crush and multiple hammers a morning (?!). I might try that last one with native speakers, just to test.
Not being a native English speaker, I might just be learning this right now, hence my probably stupid-looking questions for native speakers.
But I've learnt that if this table is to follow strictly, multiple gloves form a elicat, multiple icebergs a crush and multiple hammers a morning (?!). I might try that last one with native speakers, just to test.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
I doubt the last one is used all that often, but a flock of birds or a herd of sheep are fairly common as is a bunch of grapes.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
I feel like this forum, in an ill, sore-t of touched in the head way, passo-bly needs an Occam's Razor clue to argue over as its existential core.
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Re: 945 A Bunch of Raisins in the Sun
I know these 2 and there are others like this I know, but some association felt so alien to me I wondered if they were the strictly sole "plural" forms or if there were other possibilities.
In any case, I rest my case and now understand better why "bunch" came so quickly in the guesses.