The Education of Sonny Carson

The Education of Sonny Carson is a 1974 film based on the bestselling autobiography of Sonny Carson.

The brutality of the guards and the harshness of prison life quickly become evident to Sonny. In one instance, Willie is beaten, nearly to death, by the guards as Sonny watches. Willie tells Sonny that he could no longer endure such treatment. That night, Willie is forcibly dragged from his cell by the guards. They toss him over the railing, causing him to fall to his death. Sonny, who is deeply affected by his time in prison, serves out the remainder of his time and returns to his family. While trying to reestablish connections with his former gang members, Sonny learns that the drug trade has claimed the lives of many of his former friends. With a renewed purpose in life, Sonny fights the drug trade under a new alias, Iwina Lmiri Abubadika. The film ends in the 1970s, long before Abubadikas controversial involvement in New York City politics.The Education of Sonny Carson was produced on a budget ofmillion. Director Michael Campus was therefore forced to improvise in order to save money, such as obscuring the layout of a room with darkness, allowing the same room to be used for multiple settings. In order to film Sonny Carsons violent gang initiation, during which Sonny is beaten by gang members as he runs through them, the camera was placed in a metal cage and filmed from two separate points of view one, in which Sonny is shown running through the gauntlet, and the other, which is shot from a firstperson perspective. ........

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