The Harder They Fallhas gone on to become one of the most-streamed films of this year, topping charts on Netflix as well as other streaming platforms. The Netflix western, which stars theIdris Elbaand Jonathan Majors, was the most-watched film during the span of November 1st through 7th by Nielsen U.S. The film currently boasts almost 1.2 billion minutes of streaming views.
The film has received critical acclaim and has understandably made it to the top of the charts.The Harder They FalldethronedYou(994 million minutes of viewing) as the most-watched content onNetflix. The film beat out a lot of competition to earn this place too as Netflix had multiple films on the list for the first week of November, likeLove Hard,Replicas,American Gangster,andKing Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which also made it to the most-watched list. The currentTop 10 list of Netflixshows is as follows:
The revisionistWesternfilm directed by Jeymes Samuel is set in the Wild West after the abolition of slavery and is a fresh take on the genre as most of the principal cast members are all Black. Ina conversation with ComicBook.com, Samuel said:
I love westerns, I don’t get them enough, so I really wanted to tell a story where I can use the camera to do stuff that they couldn’t do when John Ford was making westerns, that they couldn’t do when John Huston was operating and alive… I really wanted to utilize drones and show a train robbery. I love bank robberies, train robberies, jailbreaks, but I wanted to show a jailbreak and the train robbery in the same scene, and tell that story utilizing split screen. I wanted to do all these things with my debut feature film and that’s what I got to do.
The Harder They Falltells the story of the real-life outlaw Nat Love, who seeks revenge on the man who murdered his parents, dangerous criminal Rufus Buck. The film takes inspiration from real-life stories of outlaws and cowboys and features a rich soundtrack incorporating hip-hop into the trademark Western theme.
