{"id":1037441,"date":"2021-11-20T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T22:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1037441"},"modified":"2021-11-20T17:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T22:44:02","slug":"king-richard-review-inspiring-lesson-on-how-to-be-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/king-richard-review-inspiring-lesson-on-how-to-be-an-american\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;King Richard&#039; Review: Inspiring Lesson on How to Be an American"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fking-richard-review-inspiring-lesson-on-how-to-be-an-american%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1037441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/king-richard-tennis-balls-shopping-cart-WB-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">In a performance likely to win him a Best Actor Oscar, Will Smith plays Richard Williams, father of tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams.<\/p>\n<p>By night, Richard works as a security guard. By day, he pours everything into executing a plan he mapped out for his daughters even before they were born: Venus and Serena, two little girls from Compton, will be the Michael Jordans of women\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s a ludicrous plan, preposterous, and as he works the country clubs of Southern California with a homemade \u201cbrochure\u201d seeking sponsors and coaches, he\u2019s greeted by \u201cpolite society\u201d as a charming eccentric. The truth, though, is that he\u2019s anything but.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KING RICHARD \u2013 Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BKP_0z52ZAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>King Richard Williams is the brilliant, driven, &nbsp;and loving protector of his daughters\u2019 futures and innocence. He is also hard-headed, single-minded, obsessive, and even a little underhanded at times. But what he proves to be above all else is the only thing that matters: he\u2019s <em>right.<\/em> Those girls are everything he said, and then some.<\/p>\n<p>Even though we know the outcome, the pleasures here, and this movie is pure pleasure, come from watching how we arrive at that outcome. The decision to tell this story from Richard\u2019s point of view is the right one, and not just because that point of view is carried by Smith, one of our last true movie stars. You see, the best biopics leave you with the sense that you\u2019ve learned something about what made this person who she is, and there\u2019s no question it was Richard who made Venus and Serena what they are.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the story isn\u2019t so focused on Richard that we don\u2019t get a sense of the girls themselves, what they wanted, and their competitive spirit, which literally shines in their eyes. In another stand-out performance, Aunjanue Ellis plays Brandy, the girls\u2019 mother, and her imprint also mattered, mostly in how she could course-correct her husband.<\/p>\n<p>There are many themes at work here, but the most important one, the one most needed in today\u2019s society, is how we are taught again through Richard and Brandy\u2019s example to be Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t need to be worried about what other people are doing,\u201d Richard tells the girls. \u201cYou need to be worried about what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry about them,\u201d Brandy tells her daughters. \u201cLet them worry about you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And there it is\u2026.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Even if you\u2019re a poor girl from Compton entering a mostly white and wealthy country club world, don\u2019t pay them any mind. Focus on your goals. Focus on what you want. Work for it, train for it, strive for it. What other people say or do or think doesn\u2019t matter unless you allow it to matter, and if you do, that only holds you back.<\/p>\n<p>In a country now poisoned by cynical hucksters eager to destroy black children with the demonic lie that they cannot succeed in a \u201cracist\u201d country, what a breath of fresh air <em>King Richard<\/em> is. Stop worrying about the past, the movie shouts; it doesn\u2019t matter. Keep your eye on the future. Stop worrying about what other people may or may not think about you. Worry about <em>you,<\/em> and then go for it.<\/p>\n<p><em>King Richard<\/em> is also a movie about the importance of the nuclear family, about the importance of <em>fathers<\/em> and religious faith and <em>values<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>When a busybody neighbor calls the busybody child services office on Richard, he lays it all out right there (paraphrasing): <em>You damn right we\u2019re hard on these girls. That\u2019s our job. They got straight As in school, and they\u2019re not going to die on these streets. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Richard could\u2019ve cashed in right away, when his dream is dropped into his lap, he refuses. He\u2019s seen how tennis prodigies become stars and then burn out in a fire of personal demons after being pushed too hard too soon. So his girls will wait. School, childhood, church, and normalcy come first.<\/p>\n<p><em>King Richard<\/em> tells us that what made Serena and Venus was something more than hard work. It was good old-fashioned values that created those immortals. It was traditional values, and American values emblazoned upon them by a complicated and imperfect man who\u2019d suffered the worst kind of racism at the hands of Democrats in the segregated south. But rather than wallow in the injustice of it all, he looked ahead, always ahead.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Americans do.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, crybabies do crybaby things, like call child services on the family that\u2019s about to prove your crybaby excuses are all bullshit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a performance likely to win him a Best Actor Oscar, Will Smith plays Richard Williams, father of tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams. 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