“Origin.” Power and hierarchy is the age-old system which has been flowing down in society and also has become a part of our day to day society. It is not hidden that people with high rank has always been cryptic and prejudiced against the cast across the globe.
Humanity has always been on the brink of ice due to this impoverished and malicious activity, many movies and films have also been portrayed to remove this certain.
Directed by Ava DuVernay,a biographical drama movie based on the book titled ‘Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents’ by Isabel Wilkerson “ORIGIN” takes us on an eye-opening journey with writer Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) as she embarks on a journey of global exploration and discovery while dealing with her own enormous personal loss.
Aims to link the violent repercussions of American slavery to the horrific crimes of the Holocaust to India’s degrading caste system in a narrative that combines gnawing grief with a cyclical sense of history.
Isabel Wilkerson is an esteemed writer of her kind and has been famous for the most authentic and redefined tales which she crafts in her books. The books are classic and have crisp and brilliant tales which often makes us face reality.
She is also the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. The plot and story was as fascinating and overwhelming and its locations are also as brilliant as they could be.
Origin Movie Filming Locations
The Origin series was filmed across three different continents across the world. The venture was started in December 2022 and was wrapped in March 2023. The first location was the Savannah metropolitan area in Georgia
In December 2022, the cast and crew took over Pembroke and transformed a few streets into a film set depicting the century in which the narrative is set. Some of the footage was also shot in Savannah. According to the sources the streets of East Bay street were transformed into the sets
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Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, was yet another principal location for the movie which also hosted the production of ‘Origin.’ Montgomery, located along the Alabama River on the Gulf of Mexico’s coastal Plain, is home to several important skyscrapers that are easily included in period productions, including the Alabama State Capitol, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the First White House of the Confederacy, and the Frank M. Johnson Jr. Federal Building.
This is one of the reasons the filmmaker chose the capital as a filming location as these production sites are the most favorable filming sites used by directors.
In the Origin series, A nazi burn scene which was actually held at Bebelplatz was also used as a filming site and the original location in Berlin , Germany was used to add particular details to the scene.
This typical characteristic and detailed cinematography to help the viewers understand the narrative and essence of the story was well appreciated. Although the makers had a limited budget, makers were set to produce an incomparable masterpiece.
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The empty library awas the location which was used as the production site for the movie. It allows you to glance down into the ground. There’s a hole in the earth, a square in the ground, where you can stare down into rows and rows of white empty bookshelves to remember and represent the books that were burned. We reproduced the book burning on the plaza.
Another new principal location was New Delhi, India due to its intricate and highly compatible background and history of caste, the makers were fascinated to explore the different and rich heritage to add detailed scenes in the movie.
The popular and historically significant Humayun’s Tomb at Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah on Mathura Road in Nizamuddin, Delhi, filled the backdrop of one of the scenes set in India.
Another yet fascinating story that the director Ava DuVernay, also spoke briefly about was the sequence she shot with an Indian Dalit guy.
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She was surprised to find that manual scavenging is still practiced in this day and age, and she wanted to show the public “what it takes for a human being to be required — expected — to degrade themselves to perform that service, just to eat, just to exist.” So she contacted several men who did that work and encouraged them to do it on video.
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