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?
00:05:00 My face was like this, my eye was like that.
00:08:09 "He's probably one of those."
00:12:10 that I saw looking like hell, that I saw...
00:15:51 days after the Rodney king beating
00:18:07 But it didn't happen that way.
00:21:43 I mean, they can't do that.
00:24:48 None of the jurors are black.
00:29:48 Man: Tip it over!
00:34:09 I think it was a group of people
00:36:56 I mean, you know, there's just as much police abuse
00:40:32 Crowd: Guilty! Guilty!
00:43:30 They're burning down the Beverly center."
00:46:32 when the hotel closed
00:50:09 before something happen."
00:52:28 Soon as they found the baby heartbeat...
00:55:35 "I'm in the middle of a tour... I can't.
00:59:13 I'm talking about Martin Luther king... and Malcolm X.
01:02:43 and so I was down on my knees
01:05:37 and we put them in check.
01:09:36 So, um, anyway I'm going to tell you how we got to this verdict.
01:12:44 Such and such said that.
01:15:35 After the riots
01:20:11 I wish that I could be part