ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke TV-Show Review 2019 Cast Crew
Director: Kelly Duane
Writers: Jeff Zimbalist , Michael Zimbalist
Stars: Sam Cooke, Quincy Jones, Smokey Robinson
This documentary was excellent! It's time for the truth to come out! I read Sam Cooke's great nephew, Erik Greene, book years ago. I have never believed the story that was told in the media. I will trust the word of the family, their friends and the retired police officer (who worked in the area) and then some people who continue to press a false narrative. Also, I have not found a website that indicates that Jesse Belvin had a driver. I could be wrong but I did not see one. Once again, this document was very late. Please, do not let people continue to destroy this man's legacy with lies. Please read the book of your great nephew, Our Uncle Sam: The Story of Sam Cooke from the perspective of his family. It has a lot of information that was not included in this documentary.
I do not want to slander Cooke with that title. Although he is my favorite singer of that time, and the owner of the sweetest and gravest voice I have ever heard, I have to accept, according to the research I have done (it is not necessary) that it was not. murdered. There was no conspiracy to kill him. He, without the help of anyone else, set in motion the chain of events that led to his incredibly tragic and humiliating death. He did it behaving in a violent and improper way, totally unlike the absolutely clean image he had cultivated so carefully.
I think this documentary does a great job highlighting the musical genius and the wide range of other talents that this man had. Sam's gift to the world will be eternal, and obviously had a tremendous impact on his many fans and, of course, on the people who knew him and loved him the most.
But I think it was a big mistake to put such a strong emphasis on the "conspiracy" angle. Decreases the impact of the rest of the movie. That is, if you have even investigated 5 minutes about what happened that night, instead of taking the word of a friend or family member who, understandably, found it difficult to accept that Sam could have acted that way. I'm sure many people will come out of this movie thinking that there was an organized and insidious effort to "get rid of" Sam, and that's a shame. Why can not we just accept that he was not a perfect man, and made a fatal and misjudged decision that night? No one is perfect, and stars of their caliber were and will always be exposed to many more temptations than the average person.
I'll finish this by quoting an NPR interview, in which the author of "Dream Boogie: The Sam Cooke Triumph", Peter Guralnick, says the following:
"Well, his death had such reverberations within the black community. You know, it was, in a sense, so inexplicable and so sordid in your circumstances and so contrary to the image of Sam Cooke, and the result is that, I would say, within the community, there is not a single person who believes that Sam Cooke He died as he is said to have died, murdered by the owner of a motel in a cheap motel in Los Angeles called Hacienda, which he had gone to with a prostitute named Elisa Boyer. He could have filled 100 pages of the book with an appendix with all the theories about his death.
The central principle of each of these theories is that this was the case of another proud black man brought down by the white establishment who simply did not want to see it grow anymore. I looked at this very carefully. I had access to the private investigator's report, which nobody has seen and who has completed many more details. And no evidence has ever been adduced to prove, prove any of these theories. But, you know, it's ... the love that people felt for Sam Cooke, I think, is much more significant than the circumstances of his death. But in the research I did and also in all the people who were closest to him, I do not know anyone who doubts the official story, as much as they would like it to be otherwise. "
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