WEBVTT - Ruby Bridges 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.760 Hey Sabrina, Hey will I'm excited for today. And I 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.360 know that sounds strange, but when we do these type 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.880 of movies, they're usually really. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:29.280 Good, I know, and this is not an exception to that. Yes, 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.519 was this one actually, though, I will say it was 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:34.000 hard for me. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:35.239 Yeah, this was hard for me too. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.640 This one was I think this one, out of the 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.920 ones we've done based on a lot of the same 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:46.320 kind of topics, this one was the toughest one for me. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.600 I pretty much cried, I would say through seventy of this. Yeah, 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.320 I mean when we get myself out of it, because. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.200 It was visceral hate in this movie. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.240 Like you know, there's there's an undercurrent of hate in 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.680 the other movies where the children are trying to trying 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.800 to find the hate, trying to find where it comes from, 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.760 why it's there, where this is just this spewed. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:08.200 At a little. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.120 Yeah, spewed out a little girl for almost ninety minutes, 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.640 and it's just it was. This was a tough watch, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:16.600 but an important watch. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.320 Yes, exactly, that's a great way. A tough watch, but 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:23.280 an important watch. It was done very well, but it 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.160 was It was probably one of the time if I 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.959 think it's easy, easier for me to say than not 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.360 the toughest one we've watched so far. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.520 Yeah, I don't, I don't necessarily disagree, and also could 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.280 arguably before again when we when the words show season 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.920 comes around for us. I mean, the ensemble cast in 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.560 this film is just wow, off off the charts. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:45.040 Yeah. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.680 So, yeah, this was This was a tough one, but 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.960 a good one, and we will get into it. But 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.800 before then, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.480 makes you want to grab your friends, your PJS, and 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:55.960 your popcorn and go back to a time and all 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.160 the houses are smart, the wave tsunamis in the High 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:58.920 Schools Musical. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.280 I'm Wilford Dell and. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:01.120 I'm Sabrina Brian. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.080 Guys, It's true, most of the dcoms we review here 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.240 on Magical Rewine involved talent agent aliens or roller Blades 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.760 or talent agent aliens on roller Blades. But every once 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.280 in a while we get a well deserved break to 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.280 watch something of actual cultural significance. And that's where we 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.919 are today with nineteen ninety eight true events drama Ruby Bridges. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:20.640 Yeah. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.000 I mean, we've talked about this, We've had the other 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.200 ones we've really watched kind of in this vein our 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.919 Color of Friendship, some of Lord Selma, even Tiger Cruz, 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:32.200 which are you know, based on true events, but then 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:33.600 through the lens of a child. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.960 But this one was a little different. This was through 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.720 the lens of a child kind of. It was more. 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.440 It was more through the eyes of the adults watching 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.720 the child ghost, which made it a little more difficult 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:49.160 for me. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.880 To watch because it was just like we were talking about, 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.240 I mean again, somea Lord Selma, you're watching everything happen 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.520 through her eyes, whereas this is you're kind of watching 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.680 these things happen to this little girl. And it was, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.880 as Sabrina said, it was difficult. But the movie originally 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.639 aired on January eighteenth, nineteen ninety eight, as part of 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.640 their Wonderful World, a Disney series, and here's something we 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:11.519 haven't seen often. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:12.560 It premiered in the. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.720 UK much later in two thousand and five as part 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.359 of the Black Women Film Festival. It is a rare 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.200 occurrence when a dcom can also be included in a 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.040 film festival, so that is very very. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.359 Cool, also rare. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.200 The movie was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, which doubles 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.840 as New Orleans here, and it was very well received, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.320 obviously nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and it won 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.720 the nineteen ninety eight Humanities Prize for the Screenplay. Now, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.280 this movie was in the news back in twenty twenty 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.560 three when a Florida parent filed a complaint with their 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.320 school district, saying the film was not appropriate for second 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.960 graders to watch because it might teach them that quote 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.800 white people hate black people unquote and properly. The suggestion 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:51.560 to ban the film was not approved by a committee 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.920 of teachers, parents, community members, and a library and media 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.560 technology specialist, which I don't know anything about that job, 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.560 but it sounds like a job I'd like after watching 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.040 the movie with the parents' objection in mind. So thankfully 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.080 some people understand that history should be taught so it 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.960 doesn't repeat itself. But it is true that the film 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.360 includes racially sensitive language and themes, so I could definitely 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.240 see some discretion being advised. But movies like these are 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.400 important and factually correct. Beyond just the movie, Ruby Bridges 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.279 is forever immortalized in the Norman Rockwell painting the problem 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.760 we all live in an iconic and startling image of 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.120 the civil rights movement that at one time was displayed 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.520 in the White House. She's also the subject of the 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.560 Laurie McKennis song Ruby's Shoes. Bridges is seventy one years 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.279 old and still lives in New Orleans with her husband 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.440 and four sons. And it's a Woman's Hall of Fame 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.880 inductee with two schools named after her, one in Alameda, 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.839 California and the other in Woodinville, Washington. Okay, always ask 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.520 before we were assigned it for the podcast, had you 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:49.400 ever heard of this movie? 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.880 I had not. I had not, And we knew that 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:59.159 it was based on these events and this true story 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.520 of this woman and now and but that's it. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:02.680 That was kind of just. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.680 What we were given a little bit before watching. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.520 So you know, I knew. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.400 I already felt like this was going to be a 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.840 great movie, just because we've seen how the Channel has 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:13.760 handled these things. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.080 So they do it well. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.279 I was looking forward. They do it so well. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.120 But I hadn't heard. I didn't know about the story. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.040 I didn't know about anything. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.880 Yeah about No, I same same exact thing I do. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.040 I knew about the story, I knew about the I 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.000 knew about multiple integration stories because There are several stories 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.720 like this from across usually the South at the time, 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.479 but this one specifically, no, I think I'd heard the name. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.599 I'd heard the name Ruby Bridges, but didn't know the 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:40.400 story behind it. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.120 But it also, movies like this show me the power 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.719 of the Disney Channel because it shows the perfect balance 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.400 for kids, where again, you can watch a movie like 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.159 this and then go watch a movie like Brink you know, 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.279 or you know, you're talking nineteen ninety eight, so Johnny Tsunami, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.839 where kids really can run the gamut of. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.240 Emotionality and storytelling. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.440 Through the eyes of kids, they can see every aspect 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.400 of what it can be like. And hey, not every 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.640 kid is racing down the mountain on a snowboard. Some kid, 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.120 you know, some kids need to be surrounded by security 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.200 to go to school, and that's what Disney Channel does 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:19.720 so well. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:20.840 So this was it. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.080 And I imagine too, like you said, this vast you know, 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.679 range of the kinds of movies and topics that Disney covers. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.480 It shows you too that because they did that, kids 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.600 have the ability to have like empathy as well, like that, 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:41.680 that this movie would also inspire them to look beyond color, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.480 like be able to do that. I feel like it's 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.640 such a good thing of knowing kids are able to 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.640 do this. That's why the channel wanted to do it 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.560 was it also spoke to kids in such a positive way. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:53.600 It did absolutely. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.880 You can watch Ruby Bridges now on Disney Plus, available 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.039 day and night and during the Lost hours of the Summer, which, 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.039 as everyone knows, is between one in three am on 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.120 July eighteenth, when all clocks break down and the entire 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.800 world sleeps while small whimsical sprites appear and steel pollen. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:09.760 Like I said, everybody knows that. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.600 Well, let's find out a little more about this historical 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.560 retelling with its synopsis. When six year old Ruby has 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.800 chosen to be the first African American to integrate her 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.440 local elementary school, she subjected to true ugliness and racism 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.680 for the first time. Sabrina, what are your initial thoughts 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.560 in the dramatic and emotional movie Ruby Brice. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.680 This was, like I said, hard for me. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.560 I have a daughter who is just about to be 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.960 six towards the end of the summer. I could not 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:42.480 take myself out of this mother's position and hearing her thoughts, 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.600 seeing what that kind of dynamic would be to watch 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.880 my husband go through the things that he's going that 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.840 the dad and this film go through all of that 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:52.480 was just. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.679 So you know, I couldn't. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.680 I just I cried so much because this mother showed 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.440 so much strength for both her husband and her daughter, 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:08.160 for her family, for her life and her family's life. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.480 I just I, oh, this was This is such an 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:18.160 emotional and inspiring story for me as a mom of 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.360 a young girl. And you know, it was like it 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.240 was hard to think about being put in this position 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.720 and want and I just I really thought this woman 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:33.600 Ruby's mom was incredible, like to really you know, help 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.880 support the I just there were so many aspects of 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:38.640 this movie that I. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.960 Just absolutely loved. I loved it. Yeah, what about you now? 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.680 It felt the same way again. It's tough. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.040 I'm also one of those people where I movies like 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.640 this are hard for me for a number of reasons. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.800 But one of the reasons is I genuinely don't understand 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.320 the hate, right. I don't understand people that hate that 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.800 much or have hate that much hate direct towards them. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.120 I've been lucky in both aspects and that I don't 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.240 hate that much and I've never had that kind of 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.920 hate directed towards me, and I'm just I'm woefully ignorant 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.240 when it comes to this type of hate, this level 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.400 of where where does this come from? 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:20.600 This pure visceral hatred of a child? A child, I 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.680 don't child, I just don't understand it. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.520 And so of anyone of anyone in that respect, but 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.680 also like a child, Like I'm looking, I think that 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:30.600 was what I'm saying. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:31.240 Like it was hard. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:35.280 Like I have an almost six year old who, you know, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.360 in so many aspects, like is just starting her life, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:45.440 you know, and like has not been unkind to to anyone, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.960 you know, like just doesn't have the deserving of someone 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.079 to be that hateful regardless of the color of her skin. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.120 She comes from the amount of money, the not much 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.200 like any of that, like trying to put that, I 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:57.959 just I have no understanding. 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.719 No, I don't either, I just don't get it, you know. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.199 So there it was a tough It was a tough watch, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.080 necessary one, but definitely tough. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.000 Some of the I mean it was you know, background 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.360 actors that that got these roles. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:10.480 I couldn't. I couldn't. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.400 I couldn't even think of doing the roles that were done, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.880 of saying the things it would be too hard. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:17.920 It'd be too hard. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.000 Ruby Bridges was directed by and I'm hoping I get 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.080 the name right, Uzan Palsy, a new name to the podcast. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.560 The female director, originally from Martinique, dealt in a much 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.480 deeper universe than your normal dcom. She often explored the 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.360 ideas of race, gender, and politics in your films, most 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.760 notably in Sugarcane Alley, when she became the first black 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.480 director to win the Caesar Award and the Venice Film 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.760 Festival Silver Lion. Then she directed A Dry White Season 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.679 in nineteen ninety nine, which was the first film produced 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.760 by major Hollywood studios directed by a black female director. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.040 Pretty amazing stuff. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:49.480 Yeah. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.040 In twenty twenty two, she was given the Academy Honor 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.200 Award at the Oscars for her contributions to cinema. And 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.400 with something like this, with such an acclaimed director, they've 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.600 got a very impressive cast, as we were talking about, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.040 especially for a Wonderful World of Disney or d com. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.920 We have Penelope Ann Miller plays Barbara. Henry Miller is 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.520 a movie star, total movie star, especially back of the 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.719 day in films like Carlito's Way, which you got a 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.720 Golden Globe nomination for Kindergarten cop the Artist, and a 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.479 movie we recently talked about a lot, the Original Adventures 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.480 in Babysitting. Also loved her in Bloxi Blues, one of 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.840 my favorites ever with What's his Name? 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:23.880 I Just Said? 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.720 With Matthew Brodrick and Kevin Pollack plays doctor Robert Coles. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.360 Pollock was originally a stand up comedian who transitioned into 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.560 acting and podcasting. Most famously he was in the Usual Suspects, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.680 but also a few Good Men, End of Days and 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.680 Wayne's World two. But really he's been in so many 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.280 TV shows, from Tulsa king through The Marvelous Missus Masel 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.440 to Mom. Very recognizable face and a good audition to 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.840 the Disney casting pool for this again, there's a number 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.680 of actors we could put into Dahne Reynolds chair, but 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.000 there'd be too many in this one. Then the amazingly 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.160 talented Michael Beach plays Abon Bridges. This dude has been 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.480 in everything. He's been working NonStop since the late eighties. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.640 You've seen him in Waiting to Exhale, Soul Food, Aquaman, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.120 Mayor of Kingstown, Sons of Anarchy, and over one hundred 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.320 episodes a third Watch, and that's just to name a few. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.439 This is the kind of Hollywood. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.960 Career people dream about because he's literally never stopped working, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.240 been part of some of the most incredible projects, but 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.480 can still kind of go out in public without being hounded. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:21.800 It's like, the most incredible kind of career is this 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.480 man's career. And it was also just announced as he's 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.599 joining the cast of The Interrogator. Then chas Monet is 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.840 Ruby Bridges. This was her first ever movie. She'd go 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.240 on to appear in TV shows like Caroline in the City, Er, 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.440 Cold Case, Nino two to Zero, and the TV movie 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.880 Introducing Dorothy Dandridge starring a young Halle Berry. Her last 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.079 real acting credit was in twenty eleven. Then Jean Louise 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.520 Kelly plays Jane Coles. Kelly is a veteran actress, first 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.920 seen in the movie Uncle Buck, and she'd later star 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.720 on the CBS sitcom Yes Dear. She was also recently 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.880 seen in the new Top Gun Maverick movie. And finally, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.880 Leela Roschan is Lucy Bridges. You know her from Waiting 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.840 to Exhale, Any Given Sunday and Boomerang. She's still acting, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.760 has been married to the acclaimed director Anton Fuqua since 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.760 nineteen ninety nine. And yes, this movie is historically accurate 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.440 and important, but this is still magical. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.000 Rewind is it ninety minutes? Did it hit the target? 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:12.400 Well? 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.200 Close enough? It's ninety six. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:16.840 Man, you hate to see it, even for a movie 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.000 like this, six over the target. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.400 It's a real shame. But you know what, We're gonna 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:19.880 let it pass. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.400 We're gonna let it pass this time because it's such 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.000 an important and great film. Writing wise, Torrianne Johnson gets 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.240 a screenwriting credit. She had a history in theater and 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.520 go on to write Lifetimes the Courage of Love, a 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.040 film loosely based on another African American pioneer named Henriette Deliel, 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.480 And then she made a real pivot to co write 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.679 a movie I Love Yes People. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.120 She co wrote Step Up to the Streets, the one 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.920 that introduced Moose. The best film that's ever been made 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.440 in the history of the world. It's perfect. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.240 I don't want to hear anything about it, but that 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.719 is quite a range. Johnson also wrote a novel in 0:13:51.720 --> 0:14:01.400 twenty fourteen called Remedy for a Broken Angel. And now 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.160 let's learn about the incredible Ruby bridges By recapping her 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.959 dcom The movie opens with kids pouring out of a 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.000 school at the final bell, where in New Orleans it's 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.560 November nineteen sixty. All the children we see are black, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.320 with a focus on two real cute kids, Ruby and Allison. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.520 We're transported to a neighborhood nearby. The streets are full 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.960 of people on their porches with kids playing softball or 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.320 riding their bikes in the streets. There's a baseball game 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.360 in progress and one little girl, Ruby is taking it 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.360 very very seriously inside the house, and then in a suit, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.560 is telling Ruby's mom that her daughter scored very well 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.480 on the school board exam. She actually outperformed most of 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.800 the first graders throughout the entire district. Back outside, Ruby's 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.360 dad Abon arrives and cheers on his daughter as she 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.240 slides in a home, but it is a close call. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.760 They look to missus Johnson, an elder in the neighborhood, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.400 and she says that Ruby is safe. AVM picks her 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.720 up in excitement, and the two siblings also join in 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.200 for the big family hug. Nearby, Ruby and her dad 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.240 turned to mister Taylor and the other neighbors they know 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.720 including a German lady, miss Stein, who owns the local 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.760 grocery store. We're now in the store and missus Stein 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.080 chuckles and tells Ruby he's standing on her tippy toes 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.360 that she's grown because last week she couldn't even see 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:02.960 over the counter. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:04.800 We're now back on Ruby's porch. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.400 Ruby's mom, Lucille, and a man in a suit, doctor 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.920 ac Broyard of the NAACP, are finishing up their meeting. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.680 Lucille thanks him for the good news and introduces him 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.360 to Ruby and Abon, who just got back home. Doctor 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.360 Broyard congratulates Ruby. She's been picked with five other girls 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.280 to do something no other black children have done in 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.800 New Orleans. They have a lot to be proud of. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.720 Inside Ruby's house, Ruby and her siblings are now jumping 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.080 on the bed acting like kids. When Missus Bridges walks in, 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.680 they need to stop playing and start their nighttime prayers. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.880 Mister Bridges is sitting on the couch watching a news 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.080 report about the proposed racial mixing in the New Orleans 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.760 public schools, which is set to begin on Monday. The 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.440 Attorney General has warned the Governor, James Davis not to 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.920 interfere with the federal court's order to desegregate the schools. Davis, however, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.480 is vowing to preserve segregation. Despite the warning, mister Bridges 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.040 shuts off the TV and tells his wife that he 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:52.960 isn't sure about all this. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.600 She's not gonna let it scare though. The federal government 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.600 means more than the state and stuff like this. But 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.560 mister Bridges questions why they'd send Ruby somewhere she isn't 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.680 even wanted. If she did so good in that test, 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.440 that means she's doing just fine where she is. Missus 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.000 Bridges argues that black schools just aren't as good as 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.680 the white ones. Doctor Broyard said, Ruby has what it 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.600 takes to go far, and this could make things better 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.480 for all children of color. Now, in a crowded church, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.800 everyone is singing and celebrating. Then the preacher starts a 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.720 sermon and the one little boy who is singing in 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.280 this choir is crushing it. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.560 Oh my gosh, so so good. 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.720 It was so good, just amazing hearing this little kid sing. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.840 It was like, man, it was really remarkable. The preacher 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.760 talks about how every day there is something new to 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.720 keep them oppressed, but they will rise up and Persevere 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.880 church then lets out, and now Ruby and Allison are 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:43.800 walking home, talking about how she's going to a new 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.000 school tomorrow and even gets to ride in a car. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.520 Alison is going to a Catholic school soon and she 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.720 isn't even Catholic. Ruby promises she'll still see Alison and 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.000 jokes she'll still whoop her butt in baseball. The next morning, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.400 at Ruby's house, Abon is eating breakfast and Ruby is 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.000 just adorably staring at him. He asked if she's nervous, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.920 since she just shrugs her shoulders. He wishes he could 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:04.480 go with her, but she can tell him all about 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.639 it later. He calls her his brave little girl and 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.080 she smiles. Abon walks outside to go to work and 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.080 sees police blocking off the road. He walks over to 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.120 ask what's going on, and the officer says they're only 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.040 letting residents come and go. Mister Bridges may need id 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.159 to come home later in case he runs into the 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.080 next shift. Startled, mister Bridges shakes his head and continues 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.480 his walk to work. We're now back inside the house 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.040 thanks to their neighbor, missus Taylor. Ruby's dressed in a 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.000 pink dress with a pink bow in her hair, ready 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.359 for her first day at her new school. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:31.800 Missus Bridges reminds. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.720 Ruby to answer her teacher with yes, ma'am, we're outside now. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.440 An official looking car arrives with Deputy US Marshall Al 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.000 Butler and his team ready to escort Ruby's school. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:41.560 Missus Bridges is confused. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.840 She thought it would be doctor Broyard from the NAACP, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.240 but Ruby and her mom get in the car anyway, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.240 with the entire neighborhood watching on. Ruby and her friend 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.560 Allison wave to each other as the procession of cars 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.359 drives off. They arrive at school and are given precise 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.640 instructions on how to walk. He tells Ruby to stay 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.359 between the four officers and not look back at the 0:17:58.400 --> 0:17:59.720 crowd no matter what happens. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:01.240 And this is where I was like, oh. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:05.800 God, this is gonna be bad, Like yes, same, yeah, 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.600 you're just already the adjutive starting of watching the film 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.120 like it, man, it's gonna this is gonna it's gonna 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.280 be hard, and even I didn't realize how bad. A 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.600 man nearby has gotten out of his car. He's upset 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.040 with the stops traffic and has a medical conference. He 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.480 needs to attend at the same time the US Marshal. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.040 Ruby and her mother get out of the car, and 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.320 we're swarm by a crowd of upset parents and students, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.160 yelling and chanting two four six eight we don't want 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.720 to integrate, and holding signs that say things like whites 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.840