I have seen "Cadence." Saw it on the big screen in 1990. Own it on VHS. I don't remember it for this song, however. I remember it for the performances of Laurence Fishburne, Michael Beach and John Toles-Bey. What I remember most vividly is the step, call and response of the "cadence" performed by the black soldiers imprisoned/enslaved in an army stockade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAi-77fonA&feature=related The movie can easily be deconstructed as a trenchant allegory about being black in America or as yet another movie where what should be a black man's tale is high-jacked by the less compelling journey of a white man (Charlie Sheen). It occurs to me how brave Charles Fuller's "A Soldier's Story" (1984) was and is. If "Story" had not begun as a play (or, if the play had been written by a white man), the lead, Army Investigator Captain Davenport played by Howard E. Rollins, Jr., would have been played by a white actor from the Gregory Peck school of acting. The movie is unsatisfying on many levels because it concentrates on Charlie Sheen's "rebel without a cause" who is just passing through instead of on the real men doing hard time (primarily for being black in a white man's army). ~(no)rave! Said Kakese Dibinga <s...@...> wrote: > > I've never seen nor even heard of this movie 'Cadence' until about 2 hours > ago, I came across this clip on Youtube while searching for something else. > I'll buy it this week. Does anyone know whatever happened to Harry Stewart? > This song/performance is emotional...he took it to the cotton field...Last I > heard he never had the song published and was homeless...Story goes that > Martin Sheen met Harry on the street in LA, he wasn't a professional musician > or actor, asked if he wanted to be in the film, gave him a few lines, yet > Harry wrote this song and sang it live in the movie....love to know what > happened to him....... > > 'End of My Journey' movie clip: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMre6qM9TrU&feature=related > > Said Yenga Kakese Dibinga > Director General, Bayindo Group SA > POB 1782 > Los Angeles, CA 90078-1782 > em: s...@... > skype: saiddibinga >
