Boots Riley: “And it was only after learning about organizing that I realized, ‘Oh, what I wanted to be, with that superhero thing, was a cop. And that’s what I would have turned into'”
’s oddball visuals. The show marks the Oakland duo’s second collaboration with Riley: after they met about a decade ago,became their first time scoring a film, period. Garbus says they recognized something special in each other from the jump.
Some musicians might find that level of involvement stifling. But Garbus and Brenner say the relationship has been an energizing force. She’s in good company. Riley has a way of making people feel like they can do, and be, anything they want. Watching him make the rounds after the screening, it’s a tiny bit funny that a person interested in dismantling the concept of heroism and idol worship in favor of collective power has achieved this platform via, essentially, personal magnetism and a bullhorn.
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