Trailer for new Harriet Tubman biopic

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/24/trailer-for-new-harriet-tubman.html

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Now that I’ll spring for the Big Screen, looks good.

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So far the best Harriet Tubman on screen so far was Aisha Hinds on the short lived show Underground. In the show she was a axe wielding, gun toting BAMF for the abolitionists who still was able to wow the crowds with her oration

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If this film doesn’t include the Combahee River Raid, then it’s gonna need a sequel

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This may be one of those rare biopics where Hollywood has difficulty making the on-screen character as badass as her real-life counterpart.

[Terminator Voice]: “Come with me if you want to live free.”

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Octavia Spencer was so good as Harriet Tubman on Drunk History that I was hoping she’d play it on the big screen.

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Drunk History is my favorite educational program. If I ever got that teaching license I would have been showing it to HS students…before getting fired for showing it to HS students.

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I bet you $20 Trump will make a racist tweet about it.

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“Why doesn’t Hollywood make a movie about all the WHITE MEN who escaped slavery and fought to free their kin from bondage??” —MAGA manbabies who also forgot that Spartacus exists

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She was one badass true American hero. I don’t know enough, I need to learn more about her.

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