![]() Wilson's stage play and screenplay are full of language and slang that is very right for the times, and, yes, this does include a profuse use of the 'N' word. Fortunately, Washington found a way of making it happen by filming in a part of Pittsburgh that seems not to have changed all that much from the way it must have looked in the actual time that FENCES is set. Adapting stage plays to the screen is not exactly the easiest thing in the world to do, because what works on a stage needs a great deal to transfer it to a movie, and a real, breathing set. Bono Stephen Henderson, but he is still troubled by a dark park of himself, one that threatens the eighteen-year marriage between him and his wife Rose Viola Davis. Washington does have a good friend in Mr. ![]() He had been a baseball player once before World War II, but it never amounted to much and when one of his sons Jovan Adepo wants to get into football while going to college, Washington tries to steer him away, managing only to alienate his son further than he already is. ![]() True films of 2016, FENCES.Scripted by noted playwright August Wilson from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play, FENCES stars Washington as an average Joe-type sanitation worker in late 1950s Pittsburgh dealing with the world at large.
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