Jul 21, 2016
This week's episode special 100th
episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features film scholar,
actor, writer, and professor Kevin
Willmott.
Professor Willmott is a co-writer
and producer of Spike Lee's film Chi-Raq as well as the
recent film Destination Planet
Negro. In addition to many other projects, Kevin also
wrote and directed the amazing "documentary"/counterfactual film
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America.
In this week's installment of the
podcast, Professor Willmott and Chauncey talk about how Donald
Trump is a character in a satirical film, Hollywood's recent
"obsession" with movies about slavery and the "black experience,"
the reception of the movie Chi-Raq, and the importance of
talking honestly and critically about the color line and black
history in America.
Kevin and Chauncey also have a
moment of shared life experience as they reflect on what it was
like to grow up with an older father and what having learned elders
taught them about appreciating life and history.
During this week's episode of
The Chauncey DeVega Show, Chauncey talks about Donald
Trump's genius speech at the RNC convention, what it has in common
with Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, and offers his
thanks to the listeners to the podcast for helping it get to the
100th show.
Chauncey also offers up some
thoughts on the four new movies that he saw while trying to escape
Chicago's heat wave, talks about the horrible new
Ghostbusters movie, and calls out the Republican sex freak
hypocrites in Cleveland who hate on gay people and Muslims but
apparently are watching all sorts of porn which features
them.