Clipping from Jet, 30 October 1989. |
"My film is about a runner at the Chicago Board of Trade (Nancy Allen, Robocop) who sells her soul to the devil (Danitra Vance) to be a successful soybean trader. Her boss (Dean Stockwell) tries to thwart her, her boyfriend (Brad Hall) tries to help her, and his boss (Rance Howard) pitches in. Ray Charles plays God*, a sax player who stands in front of the CBOT, and depending if you tip him or not, that's how well you're going to do that day. Its subplot is ending world hunger through manipulating soybean prices."
* Ray's character is called Julius. In publicity materials I saw, his role is labeled as "archangel Julius".
VHS: Limit up. MCEG 0970449925, 1989.
With Nancy Allen. |
With Danitra Vance. |
"We improvised the scene where he claims to have 'seen' Nike, but we had to put [Ray's] lines in Braille and he taped it to his leg so he could 'read' them. That's why Ray always rubbed his legs when playing or sitting at the piano; he was reading his dialog."
It's unclear to me if Ray's theme was formally composed and if it had a title (but if it did, The River Charles would be a good candidate).
Fragment:
The whole movie (director's cut):
You can watch the full movie here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0P6xuo8J0E
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Thnx! Long live the soybean pit;-!
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