Beah Richards as Baby Suggs in Movie Clip of Beloved (1998 Demme)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- The late great Beah Richards portrays Baby Suggs, a character from Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize Winning book Beloved. Book to Film clip shows Baby Suggs gathering the people together in her form of preaching and spirituality. The dancing men remind me of the traditional black fraternity stepping
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I believe this scene emphasizes the ring shout, an ecstatic folk spiritual dance created by enslaved africans as way worship and express their love and gratitude for god while often catching the holy spirit. This is my favorite scene in this movie, its very powerful, the spiritual moaning in the background is heavenly. Hoodoo was the black church before christianity
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Big mistake for us..but we had no choice then..
This scene always gets me! As soon as Suggs ask for the children to com around I start tearing up
Naw this is Autochthonous Indigenous Amaru-Khan Injuns dance 🏹🏹🏹🐢
That out of Africa theory is hogwash we are Injuns aka Indian's from Amaru-Kha
Every time I see this part it stirs my soul like a connection to a past that is unique to only us. This reminds me of Congo Square in New Orleans. It was the only place where black folks could gather and worship as they did from the homeland. Just being there brought me to tears. To know that I was standing in a place where my elders from such a time period quicken my spirit. This is beyond Christianity this was the connection we had directly to the creator
Exactly! This had nothing to do with organized religion. Like you said our connection to the ancestors, the motherland, the earth and to God....
I watch this periodically for inspiration...a reminder of what African-americans have been through and the importance of community, family and religion.
Ninjacatprincess yes, and one of those things is being forced into the christian religion by the white slave masters or, later on, adopting the Islamic as an alternative despite the fact that it was the faith of the Arabs who introduced European to the practice of African slavery in the 1st place
Ninjacatprincess yes it reminds me of the stories my grandfather use to tell
@@mrlopez-pz7pu you could also say the Europeans were forced into Christianity by their Roman slave masters. It is not their native religion either.
This isn't religion it's spirituality
This movie has been UNDERRATED!!!!! This was a PURE MASTERPIECE!!!!! Oprah, Danny, and the two girls all played their part VERY WELL!!!
This scene leaves me speechless! So much beauty, power and African history.
My God, this scene always stirs my spirit. The laughter of the children despite being robbed of the happiness every child should experience during this innocent, precious time in their lives. The men hanging on to the very last vestige of their native roots and dependent on that being their only source of truth and happiness despite being devalued and humiliated in every way possible. The women carrying the emotional scars of it all, utilizing the opportunity to tap into their individually spiritual cores and make a universal cry, signaling that what tried to kill them and theirs only makes them stronger than the those behind these oppressing forces. This scene literally gives me life.
Nunya Bizz WOW!!! That Was Beautifully Explained
Thanks Dommonique!! Just did my best to speak the truth. One love:-)
Thank you pearlsnaredrummer77
I just had to pull over watching this
Beautifully explained.
It's a defiant proclamation and celebration of being alive and being human, despite the system that has tried to violently teach them since birth that they are forbidden from being both.
SanFranGirl1982 exactly
Every black family needs to watch dis movie bc it's so great, I cry every time I watch dis and the movie. It's to sad .
If you aren't familiar with "work songs" please look it up and appreciate that the dance rhythm is consistent with the swing of farming tools with which enslaved people worked to build this country. My favs are "John Henry" and "Another man done gone."
this is where the Master of Ceremonies comes from... just see how Baby is the MC coordinating the Holy Ring Shout Show for the people to Participatorially get high on their own Unity and Beauty of the Black Family... even broken, unbowed - African Spirits still within & Alive to this very Day
BlackPower
Rest in power Ms. MORRISON
This makes me cry
I got chills
2017 where ya at!?
I love this movie
Beah Richards was perfect in this movie.
Hoodoo 🔥
This movie was so odd to me when I was younger but even then I felt like it was my understanding that was lacking and I was right. I just didn't get it.
Oprah was way ahead of her time with this movie. But also, nobody else wants to see Oprah peeing onscreen either. Lesson learned.
Lol I often joke about the pee scene. It's a great inside joke lol
No indoor bathroom or 🚽.....no toilet paper........possibly no underwear.....no skin to be shown......We are so spoiled!😔 All in part due to our ancestors putting up with all of the degradation & humilation so we don't have to relive it.
Hindsight is so 2020
This is real church. Tithes paid in sweat, tears,and joy.
amen
amen
Aint that the truth
Ament
Amen!!!
I cry EVERY time I see this scene. Such a powerful movie
Me too and i get the goosebumps.... And then i start moving and dancing... This is in my playlists
Yes🖤
The book is better much better. Read
@@shujaakuhaniel read the book.
So do I
This scene always make me emotional! It shows the resilience and hope that our people ALWAYS held despite the filth we endured! I still wake up and wish it was all a dream! 🙌🏾🙏🏾
This scene changed my life - connected me to my ancestors.
A legend that's sadly did not get the recognition that she deserved. Long live Beah Richards👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
👑🙌🙏🕊
Well I don't know about that
She was nominated for a Tony Award, an Academy Award and she won 2 Emmy Awards, including one she won only a few weeks b4 she passed
Not many Actresses can claim that
@@kdohertygizbur I watched the documentary on her life and I’ve learned that despite those accolades that you’ve mentioned she was still being offered to play servant roles and majority of her roles on tv and film were playing a mother or grandmother. So yes I will say she was recognized by the industry but should’ve been offered more roles that really displayed her talent.
My favorite scene of the entire movie.
j s will u pls sent the link of this film
This scene touches the deepest part of my heart. Praised!!
remember seeing my grandma cry watching this scene.. i can understand why now
We are losing the generation that remembers the teachings post resconstruction/Jim Crow😔🙌🙏🕊
@@meewannabe2525 , so true. May they rest peacefully with the ancestors now. 🙏🏼
I want that chant to be played at my funeral mane 💯💯
This is one of the most beautifully spiritual scenes in the history of movies
It will take another 100yrs before most ever get the meaning behind this scene......THANK YOU Ancestor Beah Richards!🙌🕊🙏
98 until most know what you know now.
Why don't you be the one to explain it, so that maybe we won't have to wait so long.
If I get to heaven , god better be Baby Suggs Holy or I am going to be pissed.
I always come back and look this part up.. she makes me smile and she reminds me of my grandma Jessie Mae who past this year. ❤️ I miss her so much.
Miss Beah Owned this scene
If she had a few more scenes, she would have been nominated for an Oscar, I believe
Makes me weep every time. So beautiful yet sad.
I’m white but this scene is touching
Sitting here watching Lovecraft Country and this scene just popped up in my head. Still a powerful scene to me
Best scene ever gets your spirit elevated and makes you fell the presence of our ancestors
This made me Cry out of nowhere there’s so much emotion in this 🥺🥺🥺 #GodBlessTheAncestors
Gives me chills every time
Extraordinary scene. Remember who you are, remember where you come from.
Reminds me of my great grandmother Grandma Burge. Makes me cry every time.
rest in power Grandma Burge, We thank you!
If today's African Americans can remember what our ancestors went through maybe we could restore and be proud again.
I agree with so many in the comments, this scene touches my soul. I would love to attend a service like this, out in the open, free of organization, just movement of the spirit.
I always look at this scene when i need inspiration! I always shed a tear!
[It continues in the book] "...And without covering their eyes the women let loose. It started that way: laughing children, dancing men, crying women and then it got mixed up. Women stopped crying and danced; men sat down and cried; children danced, women laughed, children cried until, exhausted and riven, all and each lay about the Clearing damp and gasping for breath.
In the silence that followed, Baby Suggs, holy, offered up to them her great big heart… “Here,” she said, “in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it… No more do they love the skin on your back.
Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them! Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them, pat them together, stroke them on your face ‘cause they don’t love that either. You got to love it - you!
And no, they ain’t in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed…What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give leavins instead. No they don’t love your mouth. You got to love it."
"This is flesh I’m talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I’m telling you. And oh my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck un-noosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it, and hold it up.
And all your inside parts that they’d just as soon slop for hogs, you got to love them. The dark, dark liver - love it, love it, and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet…More than your life-holding womb and your live-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize."
And in all honesty, as tangential as it may seem, when I think of the way she depicts this hatred for flesh I think of a current, insidious thing that I have difficulty not considering an act of hatred, I think of football - I think of unmasked inhuman cruelty to the bodies and minds of black men and economic value that reduces them to 'flesh' through the filter of profit, I think of a society that prizes all of it, gives this viscous debasement of humanity such privilege and license and every excuse. 30% of players can expect long-term brain damage from their years working, all other damage aside, connives collusion. Sure, they consent to participate - but think of how ambiguous 'consent' is in a society that so long and so *complexly* accommodates a simple brutality like this....I do not know.
You connected it beautifully. Couldn't agree more. I came to YT tonight hoping to find the extended part you quoted. I'd forgotten if it was in the movie or not. I'm reading the book again. I feel like that passage embodies the rehumanizing healing we all need. It's one of the juicy kernels (thinking pomegranates) of the story.
Thank you for adding this. I read the book once, so long ago and for some reason the word "yonder," came to mind. I couldn't remember why. I now know why. Such a powerful sermon.
OMG, THIS WAS THE PART I WAS LOOKING FOR...
aopc cpoa thank you!
Well said Friend!!!
Something stirs on the inside of me when I watch this scene. My spirits is filled with mixed emotions. It's as if I feel the struggle and the victory all rolled up into one and it brings me to tears
A healing circle...
"Let the women come... Let. Your children and husbands hear you weep... Weep for the living, for the dead..."
Given what was going on at that time, this was much needed...
Hear the children being children; see the fathers and father-figures elating in joy of a moment to dance; and women tears of relief to be amongst each other, to see them enjoy such a moment...
A release for children, fathers and mothers due to being stifled, stripped, tormented in every way of this one moment...
My favorite movie...
This scene in the book actually moved me. It just takes to your bare. The bare of being human, that loves, laughs, dances...When I read this in the book, I had to stop and cry. Everytime I read it now, I get emotional.
When I watched Beloved in the theater, I cried every time Baby Suggs spoke. What power.
I've never succeeded in getting through this scene without crying. My soul!
Beautiful American Indians
As a white male I weap cause this song is so Inspirational. Half my people are black.
They seriously need to re-release this beautiful movie and have it be on all streaming and movie platforms around the world. Maybe even a brand new Blu-ray edition of this movie in 4k digital quality. They should also replay it in movie theaters too. More and more people seriously need to see this masterpiece. It's overall theme and messaging are still very much prevalent today. It has truly aged amazingly well and has become an occult classic that withstands the test of time. Generational trauma is no joke at all and very many are still healing to this day. So many innocent black people and ancestors endured and went through so much during this time. May they all rest eternally and gracefully in peace within the afterlife. 🙏💞😢
Scene still give me goose bumps
Watching it now
No the old woman at the end singing releasing beloved spirit gave me goosebumps😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’m crying people tell us we have “no culture” but the very music you here today is black American culture our dialect aave/ebonics is used as gen z slang our food, soul food is one of the most popular cuisines in the west…you can’t take away our resilience. I love us real bad😭❤️
How powerful , you’ve watched them worked to death,humiliated treated less than an animal “Watch them dance”
This made me feel a certain way about my heritage....I felt the need of a since of belonging
I use too watch this scene every single day. Strong pull!
NEGRO - NATIVE LOVE THY FLESH! YOU ARE TRUELY SPECIAL. 👑🌠💙🌹💙🌠👑
POWERFUL!
Little do people realize this is actually an American Indian type dance
I love how women carried themselves during this time period.
What I see with my own two eyes is american Indians
My favorite part of the movie 💖
Beautiful just beautiful
I hope Beyonce Includes sounds like this on her new Country Album. This is the culture.
Beautiful scene ever made
I want to utilize this for academic research but I can't tell if you have permission to post this on here. I tried to order this movie but it's gone.
If you footnote it like I did (Demne 1988), there shouldn't be a problem. I used it for a film theory assignment ; and again for another film class. At the time there were absolutely no Beloved clips. Just so happened I had the VHS and DVD from when it came out. Someone uploaded it onto a system where I could create my own clips and I uploaded them into the website that I had to create for that class. Since then, the director John Demne has passed. So I've noticed how much traffic that I've gotten with the clips. It's been about 7 years with no issues from RUclips. Probably bc of the way I footnoted Demme and I've never charged or made money on those clips. And each clip description gives an explanation description of why I was using it. I encourage you to do the same bc this is a very hard movie to find clips on or even find the actual movie for purchase. Good luck with your project
@@Yahriel007 ok you utilize it for academic scholarly film class. Glad you mentioned it, I know who to contact for permission. Thanks 😇
When Grandma Baby waves to Sethe I can see forgiveness in her eyes and joy that Sethe is healing from her trauma.
Unconditional love💕
Thank you, Queen Mother Richards ✨💗❤️🌼🌻
Sends chills thru my body everytime i watch this scene 🥰Maferefun Ancestors
Weve come along way... Along way for them to deny us and even disenfranchise our struggle. Always remember!! ALWAYS
I loved loved this movie
I cry every time I see this movie.
I swear it was like she was talking to everyone and I caught her saying with her mind that it's going to be alright.
Love ya hands!
"I'm so cold, I need a coat in the kitchen. I bust two verses, then go into intermission"
This was gorgeous and always makes me tear up to see the beauty and glory of my black people. Love to all ethnics and all of their struggles through the years, our past and slavery forged us to be who we are now.😅💎
This movie really affected me in a good way!
Oh yes
Beloved : i was just wailing and soul moaning with the fictional yet so Alive enslaved people in this Ring Shout forest worship scene
I used to be a spiritual baptist. It feels as if this is the practices of that denomination
Best scene of the movie.
Now that dancing
lashonda williams college stepping
We ate the Indians, when the men dance and the ladies weep , it touches my soul
I love her
Very emotionally powerful scene...
My favorite scene
This scene made me cry. I've been studying the history of our people pre 1492, and we have been here. We are the Indians that came in contact with the settlers. This is a sad scene, but I feel like it shows our indigenous routes and customs. We still do this kind of stuff today... this is the real pow wow.
B. Wynn me too
@@ichabodacrane4331 exactly
B. Wynn exactly people believe on what the white man tell them and it upsets me. They let the white man tell our history instead of looking deep into our own. We are the indigenous peoples of America
John Kimber all of this is backed up by old books made by colonizers when they first came to America. indigenous americans then are not like natives today. In their books you would see that indigenous Americans looked a lot like black Americans today and not like mongoloids you can see for yourself read up on it. you can keep believing that you or we came from africa but i actually know where i came from 🙂 have a nice day.
John Kimber its not a conspiracy , thats the thing there is a lot of receipts and documents from the government to prove these facts. you may need to do a lot of research yourself. its not self hate because i actually know where i came from, proud of it too.
Love this scene!❤
I want full move link, plz
Ard I see where my soul comes from
- I wish I was an extra in this scene.
Such a powerful and beautiful scene
the book brought me here ..
This whole scene is so emotional... Suggs was so powerful
I'm shedding tears
Stop saying certain actors didn't get the recognition they deserved. They got it.....YOU just wasn't there.
this movie scared me as a child ...slavery was disgusting ... no shade but i’m glad i wasn’t alive 😓
Rest in Power Ms. Richards.
👑💐🌹🌺🌸🌷💐🏵🌹
Women, just weep, for the living, for the dead, weep, 😞
Are those dances the men are doing the origins of the fraternity step dancers?
SO BEAUTIFUL! PRAISE 2 OUR ANCESTORS! ❤️❤️❤️❤️