Sinners | Full Reaction
Added 2025-06-20 06:16:44 +0000 UTC
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* Bo and Grace Chow are Delta Chinese, a subgroup of the Chinese American community that gets looked over a lot. In the late 19th century, several thousand Chinese immigrants came to the Mississippi Delta to work as sharecroppers. Eventually many of them opened grocery stores and worked as middle men between the black and white Mississippi community (You see this that they have two stores, one for black costumers, the other for white) * The guitar Sammie is given, Stack says belonged to Charley Patton, the “Father of Delta Blues”. Not much is known of Patton and there is only 1 known photo of him, and even when he was alive there was a lot of speculation about his background, as he was very fair skinned. It is now believed he was of African American, Irish, and Choctaw descent; the same groups mentioned in the movie * Annie practices hoodoo or root work, not voodoo, as ive seen some reviewers/reactors say. While both religions have their roots in African diaspora beliefs; Voodoo developed in Haiti and is a mix of traditional African religion/beliefs and Catholicism, while Hoodoo developed in the American south and is more a mix of African and Indigenous American beliefs. * Mary’s backstory about having a half black grandfather, is the same as Hailee Steinfeld’s background. So yeah by Jim Crow standards, she’s black * Old Sammie is played by Buddy Guy; who is a real Blues musician and maybe one of the best guitar players alive. He influced Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Keith Richards amongst others
Austin Arminio
2025-06-21 01:48:54 +0000 UTC
