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20695, did you see the same movie I did?
Posted by spirit, Sun Oct-22-00 05:23 PM
>however, for him to have stressed
>"satire" (its definition, how it
>was supposed to have operated
>with the minstrel show and
>in the film itself), he
>fell short. all he did
>was show what happened. he
>didn't effectively satirize the minstrelsy
>of now.

This is an opinion. I thought he effectively satirized the "minstrelsy of now"...in fact, I thought the cartoon sections satirized "The PJs" (in fact, Sleep-n-Eat's voice sounded damn near identical to the PJs lead character), the Cuba Gooding Oscar acceptance speech (in Damon's acceptance speech where he starts tapdancing...he added "show me the money" for those that were slow on catching it), the one-woman-in-hardcore-crew phenomenom, the almost pointless rage of certain hip-hop acts (contrast dead prez with the maus maus, for real, I mean listen tio "they schools" which presents no real alternative for the current school system, but is just "fuck school"...anyway...)...I think you guys wanted Spike to point direct fingers "this part refers to Shawn Wayans", "this part satirizes Martin"...the fact that it wasn't that simple and direct will actually serve to make this film timeless...it won't be limited by dated references to people who are cultural figures now (although the hip-hop stuff will limited to this point in time).

>wasn't there room within this flick
>to have multilateral references and
>messages? the use of blackface
>and the montage at the
>end, and the menagerie of
>paraphrenalia in damon's office as
>the film progressed... it was
>like he did beat the
>viewer over the head with
>history... but failed to connect
>the history to now.

Your opinion, of course. I felt he connected it to now pretty well. And the "Timmy Hillnigger" parody was long overdue (although I'm not so sure how "in" Hilfiger is now, with the rise of FUBU, but hey...).

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