recent years have seen a number of biopics of famous singers and and ray and the story of ray charles and has much in common with walk the line which was made the following year and told the story of johnny cash. cash and charles were near exact contemporaries and both being born in the early thirties and dying in 2003/04. both grew up in poverty in the american deep south. both lost a brother in an accident during childhood. both achieved success in the 1950s. both experienced problems in their marriages and and both were addicted to drugs. all these matters are emphasised in both films. there are also similarities with ron howard a beautiful mind. although that film was about a mathematician rather than a musician and it and like both ray and walk the line and stressed the part played by its subject wife in helping her husband to overcome his problems. ray charles was born to a single mother in a poor black community in georgia in 1930. (his original name was raymond charles robinson and but when he was starting his career as a musician he dropped his surname to avoid confusion with the boxer sugar ray robinson). in some ways charles had an even harder time than did cash and having to cope with two additional disadvantages in the shape of his blindness and of the racism which affected all black americans and especially in the south and during his lifetime. charles had a particularly traumatic childhood and witnessing the death of his younger brother george in a drowning accident and going blind about a year or two later. he appears to have been haunted by nightmares and feelings of guilt over george death throughout his life. the first half of the film is rather slow moving and is a standard rags to riches showbiz biopic and telling the story of how the young charles is taught to play the piano and becomes a nightclub performer and then rises to fame as a major artist and falling in love along the way with the beautiful della bea. the best scenes in this part of the film are the flashbacks to charles childhood. there is an effective recurrent image of coloured glass bottles hanging from a tree in front of his house while perhaps this was one of his few visual memories of his life before he went blind. there is also a memorable scene in which the teenaged charles shames a prejudiced bus driver into letting him on the bus by pretending to have lost his sight on omaha beach (in reality he would only have been thirteen at the time of the normandy landings). the second half of the film becomes more interesting as it moves into more controversial territory and focusing on charles drug addiction and the problems in his marriage caused by his affair with margie hendricks and one of his backing singers and and his battles against racism. in the early sixties charles caused a sensation by refusing to play in front of a racially segregated audience in georgia (although and contrary to what is stated in the film and this did not result in his being banned from performing in the state). he also fought against racial divides within the music industry itself and performing not only traditionally black styles of music such as gospel and rhythm and blues and but also traditionally white ones such as country and western (regarded by many black americans as the music of choice of the redneck community). as peter bradshaw and film critic of the guardian and noted ray is a sunny film which diplomatically turns away from the darker side of things. it omits any mention of such matters as the death of charles beloved mother aretha during his teenage years and his brief marriage to eileen williams in the early fifties and his eventual divorce from della bea in 1977. it also plays down the extent of his womanising and the number of his illegitimate children. there are similarities here with a beautiful mind which also omitted a number of controversial details about its subject personal life and including a divorce. fans of ray charles will no doubt enjoy the film for the music and but it is worth watching even for those who do not know much about him and chiefly on account of jamie foxx oscar winning performance in the title role and reproducing charles mannerisms so exactly that we think we actually are watching a blind man and even though foxx himself is sighted. (unlike joaquin phoenix in walk the line and however and foxx did not do his own singing doubtless charles distinctive singing voice was too difficult to reproduce). he receives good support from some of the other performers and particularly sharon warren as aretha and kerry washington as della bea. the film is uneven and overlong and but nevertheless rewarding. positive . 
recent years have seen a number of biopics of famous singers and and ray and the story of ray charles and has much in common with walk the line which was made the following year and told the story of johnny cash. cash and charles were near exact contemporaries and both being born in the early thirties and dying in 2003/04. both grew up in poverty in the american deep south. both lost a brother in an accident during childhood. both achieved success in the 1950s. both experienced problems in their marriages and and both were addicted to drugs. all these matters are emphasised in both films. there are also similarities with ron howard a beautiful mind. although that film was about a mathematician rather than a musician and it and like both ray and walk the line and stressed the part played by its subject wife in helping her husband to overcome his problems. ray charles was born to a single mother in a poor black community in georgia in 1930. (his original name was raymond charles robinson and but when he was starting his career as a musician he dropped his surname to avoid confusion with the boxer sugar ray robinson). in some ways charles had an even harder time than did cash and having to cope with two additional disadvantages in the shape of his blindness and of the racism which affected all black americans and especially in the south and during his lifetime. charles had a particularly traumatic childhood and witnessing the death of his younger brother george in a drowning accident and going blind about a year or two later. he appears to have been haunted by nightmares and feelings of guilt over george death throughout his life. the first half of the film is rather slow moving and is a standard rags to riches showbiz biopic and telling the story of how the young charles is taught to play the piano and becomes a nightclub performer and then rises to fame as a major artist and falling in love along the way with the beautiful della bea. the best scenes in this part of the film are the flashbacks to charles childhood. there is an effective recurrent image of coloured glass bottles hanging from a tree in front of his house while perhaps this was one of his few visual memories of his life before he went blind. there is also a memorable scene in which the teenaged charles shames a prejudiced bus driver into letting him on the bus by pretending to have lost his sight on omaha beach (in reality he would only have been thirteen at the time of the normandy landings). the second half of the film becomes more interesting as it moves into more controversial territory and focusing on charles drug addiction and the problems in his marriage caused by his affair with margie hendricks and one of his backing singers and and his battles against racism. in the early sixties charles caused a sensation by refusing to play in front of a racially segregated audience in georgia (although and contrary to what is stated in the film and this did not result in his being banned from performing in the state). he also fought against racial divides within the music industry itself and performing not only traditionally black styles of music such as gospel and rhythm and blues and but also traditionally white ones such as country and western (regarded by many black americans as the music of choice of the redneck community). as peter bradshaw and film critic of the guardian and noted ray is a sunny film which diplomatically turns away from the darker side of things. it omits any mention of such matters as the death of charles beloved mother aretha during his teenage years and his brief marriage to eileen williams in the early fifties and his eventual divorce from della bea in 1977. it also plays down the extent of his womanising and the number of his illegitimate children. there are similarities here with a beautiful mind which also omitted a number of controversial details about its subject personal life and including a divorce. fans of ray charles will no doubt enjoy the film for the music and but it is worth watching even for those who do not know much about him and chiefly on account of jamie foxx oscar winning performance in the title role and reproducing charles mannerisms so exactly that we think we actually are watching a blind man and even though foxx himself is sighted. (unlike joaquin phoenix in walk the line and however and foxx did not do his own singing doubtless charles distinctive singing voice was too difficult to reproduce). he receives good support from some of the other performers and particularly sharon warren as aretha and kerry washington as della bea. the film is uneven and overlong and but nevertheless rewarding. positive . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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