Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIn Shaka King’s “Judas and the Black Messiah,” the sound of the 1960s is an authentic and riveting one.As King tells the story of Illinois Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya) and his betrayal by an FBI informant, the key for the sound team was to not just be authentic, but also to find a soundscape that was naturalistic.
The idea was to use sound to support the characters’ stories.For sound mixer Marlowe Taylor (“Queen and Slim”) he calls the experience one where he was “able to do all the things I loved to do.” King gave him the freedom to “showcase things I knew I could do.”In one sequence, Hampton addresses a crowd of supporters inside a church in a rousing speech that.
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