The Education of Sonny Carson
- The Education of Sonny Carson
Infobox Film
name = The Education of Sonny Carson
image_size = 200px
caption = Original theatrical poster
director = Michael Campus
producer = David Golden
Irwin Yablans
writer = Sonny Carson
Fred Hudson
narrator =
starring = Rony Clanton
Don Gordon
Joyce Walker
Paul Benjamin
Mary Alice
music = Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
cinematography = Edward R. Brown
editing =
distributor =
released = 1974
runtime = 104 minutes
country = USA
language = American English
budget = "$1,000,000"
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0071456
The Education of Sonny Carson is a 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed petty crime before being sent to prison. After his release from prison he changes his life.
Background
The film had many original directional styles, of the hand in prison moment from the prisoner and civilian. The dark interrogation moment, where two of the police officers come from the dark interrogating a young black male. In order to portray Sonny Carson's violent gang initiation, the film camera was placed in a metal cage. The scene was filmed from two points of view: one of Sonny running through a row of gang-members beating him with chains and clubs, the other from Sonny's own perspective as he was being humiliated and injured in order to join the gang.
The film had a $1 million budgetFact|date=September 2008. Michael Campus has stressed over this low budget and says he didn't know how he did it. The cast members were people from the neighborhood. The film explores social issues facing the African American population such as poverty, drug abuse, violence and police discrimination.
Influence
The Wu-Tang Clan and Lauryn Hill have used dialog from the film in their works.
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071456/ Imdb Profile]
References
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