Suge Knight Opens Up In 'American Dream/American Knightmare'
CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 12/28/2018, 10:51 a.m.
Suge Knight in Court
Former rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight muses about what might have happened if the architects of that business "were friends, instead of destroying each other." That's the inherent tragedy in "American Dream/American Knightmare," director Antoine Fuqua's documentary about Knight, which is premiering on Showtime. Fuqua, the director of movies like "Training Day" and "Southpaw," conducted extensive interviews with Knight in 2011 and 2012. Although Knight isn't always the most reliable narrator, the filmmaker gives him the latitude to tell his tale, describing a world of money, power and violence, while alternating between explaining and lamenting those dynamics. Those conversations -- conducted long before Knight's sentencing to 28 years in prison in October, having plead no contest to a voluntary manslaughter charge in a hit-and-run death -- shed light on a larger-than-life character, from its tough beginnings to the founding of Death Row Records.
