I learned on July 8, 2017 that
Nelsan Ellis, who played Shinwell, has died. I didn’t think that I’d do any
posts of this blog until it returned, but I should do a tribute to the actor
who passed away of heart disease since he did have a main role on the show for
this most recent season.
This man died so quickly, he
still has a new film coming out. It is called True to the Game and is
set to be released on September 8th, 2017. If I can see it
easily, I’ll be sure to review it as it is his final role that we’ll ever see.
The plot relates to a criminal trying to get out of his crime business in order
to settle down with a young woman. Here’s the trailer followed by my thoughts
on it.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JV5dTITBxY
Thoughts on trailer: This is a
film that is black-centric by the looks of it. I hope that it is different than
how the others look, but I haven’t seen enough of this genre to know what the
difference might be between them. It could be interesting, but it also seems
like it could lead to stereotypes. I guess that I’ll have to see if it is good
or not. Expect a review when it comes out provided it is in most theaters and
not some other format. I hope that Nelsan has a major role in it, although I’ll
watch it regardless.
Now that I’ve gotten that out
of the way, it’s time to mention more of Nelsan’s film and TV career. He has
played some real life characters in the movies Secretariat, The Butler, and Get
on up. He also appeared in a movie based on the controversial Stanford Prison
Experiment. Another film he did was The Soloist which has a story based off of
an actual person. The other, notable film that he did was The Help which I
should watch sometime. The only shows he had a major role on besides Elementary
were True Blood and The Inside, the second of which didn’t last a whole season
before it was pulled from the schedule, although all of it aired outside of the
US.
I do have to wonder if
Elementary will pay tribute to his character or not. He was killed off already,
but they could and probably should now do a better send-off than what his
character got. I don’t know what we will see in the upcoming season or when it
will start. Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later. But that’s not the
point of this blog post. Below are two tribute videos to him.
Well, I might as well wrap up
this post as I can’t really make a quick video for him without a youtube
account and I don’t have much need for one of those right now. I should review
the film he is in next in this blog provided that it is a major enough film for
me to see in a local theater. I will miss the actor even if I didn’t really
like his character. Keep an eye out in the future for a review of that in this
blog. I’ll keep the actual updates for that movie in my CSI: Cyber blog so be
sure to check that. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
