1967
2005 A Natural Woman 0:30 names what happens when love returns you to yourself. Before him, she was a stranger in her own skin. He did not change her. He called her whole and she answered.
That feeling of finally fitting your own life ... it is not -- about being completed. It is about being seen so clearly that the woman who was always there finally gets to stand up and breathe.
He found his shining star. Made him believe in love again. When everything felt dark she brought light. A star guides you home when lost. She helped him find his way when he was wandering alone and did not know where he was headed.
Tarantino built Jackie Brown around Pam Grier, around the memory of blaxploitation, around the idea that a woman in her forties could be the coolest person in the room. Robert Forster's Max Cherry falls in love quietly. Samuel L. Jackson's Ordell Robbie talks his way toward a bad end. Bobby Womack's 'Across 110th Street' opens and closes the film like a thesis statement -- a man looking back on a life he didn't plan.
The song is the movie in three minutes. 1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).
A Natural Woman 0:30 names what happens when love returns you to yourself. Before him, she was a stranger in her own skin. He did not change her. He called her whole and she answered.
That feeling of finally fitting your own life ... it is not -- about being completed. It is about being seen so clearly that the woman who was always there finally gets to stand up and breathe.
1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).