“What you see Norton do as a director is really calmly, nearly dispassionately, dismantle the racist logic that led to the undoing of these communities,' Dr. Michael Eric Dyson says. - NBCBLK
Norton kept Essrog and the Minna men in his script, but took “Motherless Brooklyn” from a standard whodunit to a thinking-person’s mystery with more societal heft. Shifting the setting from the 1990s to the 1950s also allowed him to add more period cars and clothing, more jazz and more depth and to introduce a power-hungry character based on the prolific developer Robert Moses during his heyday.
Moses built most of the bridges and expressways crisscrossing the five boroughs that make up and surround New York City, plus housing projects, higher-income dwellings, stadiums, parks, beaches and even dams in upstate New York. Many of these structures bear his name.
“At some point, you realize there’s an opportunity to dig into some of these big themes and entertain, yes, but mostly, what I like about the best films is that they use art to work a hypnosis,” Norton explains, citing Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” about Los Angeles’ “original sin” of siphoning water from rural areas. “Within that hypnosis, they activate the brain around actual ideas without being didactic, without being a polemic.
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