"A Raisin in the Sun" TV adaptation of 2004 Revival at 8PM on ABC — Page 4

I wonder how it will look on DVD. Will it just fade to black where the commercials were?

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I wonder how it will look on DVD. Will it just fade to black where the commercials were?

Probably. Most made for tv movies on dvd are like that.

Yea, cutting the afro was a huge mistake; and I also was really bothered that they cut her huge monologue on why she wanted to be a doctor. I agree that taking so many moments out of the house (*especially* when the money is lost), was a mistake.

But as I said before, this piece is just so powerful... even with some bad cuts, bad camera angles, bad underscoring, and a miscast Walter... I still enjoyed it .

Now that's good writing. (and acting, for the most part)

When A Raisin in the Sun was done in 1959, the hair scene was cut. According to Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's husband, "In 1959 when the play was presented, the rich variety of Afro styles introduced in the mid-sixties had not yet arrived: the very few black women who wore their hair unstraightened cut it very short. When the hair of Diana Sands (who played Beneatha) was cropped in this fashion, however, a few days before the opening, it was not contoured to suit her: her particular facial structure required a fuller Afro, of the sort she in fact adopted in later years. Result? Rather than vitiate the playwright's point -- the beauty of black hair -- the scene was dropped."

Taking the play out of the apartment originated with Hansberry. In her screenplay, there were many scenes away from the apartment. Her original screenplay was never filmed. It was published in 1994.