Twilight: Los Angeles
2000 · 76 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 116 VOTES · DIR. Marc Levin
Overview
Anna Deavere Smith transforms herself into scores of individuals -- using only their words and duplicating their speech patterns, mannerisms, dress, and attitudes -- in a mosaic set in the violent aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial and verdict. These verbatim portrayals bring together adversaries, victims, eyewitnesses, and observers who have never stood within the same four walls, let alone spoken to each other. In her signature performance style, Smith embodies and gives voice to scores of real-life "characters" -- from LAPD Police Chief Daryl Gates to a gang member, from Korean store owners to a white juror, from Reginald Denny to Congresswoman Maxine Waters -- black, white, Asian, Latino. Because she is able to speak the words and convey the deeply held sentiments of so many different people, Smith enables her audience members to hear what they might otherwise discount.
Dialogue Timeline - 1,563 lines
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00:00:12 It was like... it was like the end of the world, you know?
00:05:04 They went in
00:08:14 I have white friends, though.
00:12:25 the president of the United States
00:16:04 They were burnt out from long beach to Pasadena.
00:18:30 that Charles Lloyd
00:22:14 because I had a lot to say.
00:25:46 because of you?"
00:30:49 Uh, I shouted at him with the scissors
00:34:57 and the Compton police, they knows him
00:37:54 Mr. President
00:41:40 You know, "such-and-so on line one,"
00:44:26 had been victims of the set... Uh, victims of the system
00:47:42 I mean, it was like, how far down can you go?
00:51:01 It happened right here.
00:53:36 She like company.
00:57:09 You know, a teenager or a youngster...
01:01:13 Smith: They accused my brother Lance of attempted murder
01:04:16 You know, you know, and it's very simple.
01:08:09 and still live the lives that they living
01:11:31 he goes running out of the room...
01:14:13 is just to make sure that we're listening.
01:18:32 for them...
05:02:01 girl is dead.