Movie is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. Music by T-Bone Walker “ West Side Baby”īook Vs.Starring: Denzel Washington (Easy,) Tom Sizemore (DeWitt Albright,) Jennifer Beals (Daphne Monet,) Don Cheadle (Mouse,) Maury Chaykin (Matthew Terrell, Joseph Lattimore (Frank Carter,) Terry Kinney (Todd Carter,) Mel Winkler (Joppy,) Lisa Nicole Carson (Coretta James,) and Jernard Burks (Dupree Brouchard.).As Daphne Monet, however, she passes for white. Her real name is Ruby Hanks, and her mother is African American. The biggest changes between the book and movie Daphne Monet, the devil in a blue dress, is mysterious and elusive.Race relations in Los Angeles in post WW2.Who is Daphne and what secrets does she keep?īetween the original story and the 1995 adaptation–which did we prefer? He is assigned by a man named DeWitt Adams to find a white woman, Daphne Monet, who is fascinated by jazz music and black culture.Īlong the way, several people associated with Easy wind up dead and the Mayor’s office seems to be in on it. The setting is post WW2 in Los Angeles where army veteran Ezekial “Easy” Rawlins (Washington) Easy is a black man dealing with the racism of the era which was more overt. In continuation of African American History Month, the Margos are taking on an old-fashioned mystery with Devil in a Blue Dress, which started as a novel by Walter Mosley & later was adapted into a film starring Denzel Washington. Walter Mosely’s 1990 Novel Vs the 1995 Denzel Washington Film “Devil in a Blue Dress” TriStar Pictures 1995ĭevil in a Blue Dress (1995) TriStar Picturesī ook Vs.
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