TITLE: CASSUS
EDITED BY: Dawn Brown
FORMAT: Screenplay / 15 Pages
GENRE: true Story
SETTING: 1810, 1942, Kentucky
LOG LINE:
Cassius Marcellus Clay, born in 1810, and Mohammad Ali, born in 1942, are the subjects in this story. Both were fighters… one for anti-slavery and the other a boxer who also fought for the liberation of Blacks.
SYNOPSIS:
Cassius Marcellus Clay had been a soldier who fought for the United States. He became an abolitionist and was hated till the day he died. Mohammad Ali was originally named Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. He became a world class boxer. He changed his name because he believed Cassius Marcellus Clay was a white supremest. Both were fighters and both filled with contradictions.
SONG: THEY’RE NOT FREE, ALI, CONTRADICTION