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"Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna""


  

          

Comes out Fall 2008. Link has pictures from the film.


http://www.blackfilm.com/20071228/features/miracleatstanna.shtml


MIRACLE AT ST.ANNA

Date: Fall 2008
Distributor: Touchstone Pictures (Disney)
Director: Spike Lee
Screenwriter: James McBride
Cast: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Matteo Sciabordi, John Leguizamo, Joseph Gordon Levitt,

Synopsis: "Miracle at St. Anna" chronicles the story of four black American soldiers who are members of the US Army as part of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.

They experience the tragedy and triumph of the war as they find themselves trapped behind enemy lines and separated from their unit after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy.

Directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay written by James McBride, the author of the acclaimed novel of the same name, the film explores a deeply inspiring, powerful story drawn from true history, that transcends national boundaries, race, and class to touch the goodness within us all.



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Michael Ealy? *reserves ticket*
Jan 06th 2008
1
Wow!
Jan 07th 2008
2
looking forward to it
Jan 07th 2008
3
That looks good
Jan 07th 2008
4
Always admired Derek Luke
Jan 10th 2008
5
I hope he plays a better military man in this than he did in Spartan
Jun 12th 2008
32
if it's a spike lee joint, i mos def will watch it
Jan 10th 2008
6
Spike Lee continues his man-crush on Italians lol
Jan 11th 2008
7
for real though
May 21st 2008
12
Both of James McBride's books are great
Jan 11th 2008
8
J. Gordon Levitt is THAT dude
Jan 11th 2008
9
I saw Spike and McBride talk today about this movie, and saw a trailer.
Feb 12th 2008
10
Spike has words for Coen Brothers and Eastwood (SWIPE)
May 21st 2008
11
It's a pretty common sentiment about the Coen Bros.
May 21st 2008
13
Agreed. And he even said "I love the Coen Brothers."
May 21st 2008
15
He right, but that don't mean they don't make good movies
May 21st 2008
14
CLINT EASTWOOD responds to SPIKE LEE (swipe)
May 25th 2008
21
      They both need to take this to wax nm
May 26th 2008
22
           LOL....I'm glad Eastwood responded though...
May 26th 2008
23
                Absent From History: the Black Soldiers at Iwo Jima
May 26th 2008
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                     RE: Absent From History: the Black Soldiers at Iwo Jima
May 26th 2008
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                          But Eastwood said all of this though....
May 26th 2008
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                               RE: But Eastwood said all of this though....
May 26th 2008
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                                    RE: But Eastwood said all of this though....
May 26th 2008
28
                                         RE: But Eastwood said all of this though....
Jun 06th 2008
29
i have an ernie barnes buffalo soldiers print
May 22nd 2008
16
Might be good
May 22nd 2008
17
as long as spike didn't write the screenplay, it might be worth it
May 24th 2008
18
RE: as long as spike didn't write the screenplay, it might be worth it
May 24th 2008
19
Do the Right Thing and She's Gotta Have It say otherwise
Jun 12th 2008
31
has the chance to be REALLY REALLY good
May 24th 2008
20
TRAILER
Jun 12th 2008
30
I'm there.
Jun 12th 2008
33
shit I'm there!
Jun 12th 2008
34
Im there n/m
Jun 12th 2008
36
YEAH!
Jun 24th 2008
40
I'm sooooooo there on opening night
Jun 25th 2008
42
Two, please.
Jun 27th 2008
44
That shit looks great. I'm join the Derek Luke for Oscar Committee...
Jun 12th 2008
35
And that little boy...
Jun 12th 2008
37
ha @ translation
Jun 16th 2008
38
I saw the trailer during Incredible Hulk Friday night
Jun 16th 2008
39
      Me too! This will be an event.
Jun 25th 2008
41
I saw the preview to this last week in the theatre
Jun 25th 2008
43

Nukkapedia
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1. "Michael Ealy? *reserves ticket*"
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2. "Wow!"
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That looks like it's going to be good.

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3. "looking forward to it"
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I love reading books about the all black regiments in the military. I'll definitely check this out

  

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4. "That looks good"
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John Leguizamo is actually a better actor than he gets credit for

He was great in Summer Of Sam

  

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5. "Always admired Derek Luke"
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This looks like a good one.

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32. "I hope he plays a better military man in this than he did in Spartan"
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He was turrrible in that one

  

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6. "if it's a spike lee joint, i mos def will watch it"
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7. "Spike Lee continues his man-crush on Italians lol"
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j/k


maybe...

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12. "for real though"
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it's almost at Tarantino man-crush on black folks level.

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8. "Both of James McBride's books are great"
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at least the first two, not sure if there's been any after...

looking forward to this...

  

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9. "J. Gordon Levitt is THAT dude"
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Seriously good actor.
Looking forward to this film, the way I'm always looking forward to Spike Lee films.

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10. "I saw Spike and McBride talk today about this movie, and saw a trailer."
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Spike won the Wexner Prize here in Columbus, so they had a conversation in front of a packed auditorium. Spike didn't really reveal too much that was new about his career, but this movie looked REALLY good. It was more like an extended montage of footage. If that was the score that I heard, it sounded terrific too. They talked about the films' ties to Italian cinema, Spike's difficulties with communication, and trying to find the main kid. But (surprise, surprise) Spike seemed VERY passionate about the subject matter. Two of the original soldiers were in the audience, and the ovation given made me damn near tear up.

But yeah, the footage was veeeery cool. This film may be up for awards next season.

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11. "Spike has words for Coen Brothers and Eastwood (SWIPE)"
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while promoting "Miracle" at Cannes.

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/05/21/spike-lee-throws-punches-at-coens-clint-eastwood/

Spike Lee Throws Punches at Coens, Clint Eastwood
Posted May 21st 2008 8:32AM by Eugene Novikov
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, War

At a Cannes press conference for his WWII drama The Miracle at St. Anna, controversy hog Spike Lee took some swipes at Hollywood darlings Clint Eastwood and the Coen Brothers. Talking about the way he treated death in his first war film, Lee said: "I always treat life and death with respect, but most people don't... Look, I love the Coen brothers; we all studied at NYU. But they treat life like a joke. Ha ha ha. A joke. It's like, 'Look how they killed that guy! Look how blood squirts out the side of his head!' I see things different than that." And he targeted Eastwood for failing to put any black soldiers on screen in Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima: "If you reporters had any balls you'd ask him why. There's no way I know why he did that -- that was his vision, not mine. But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It's not like he didn't know."

I can't really speak intelligently about the racial make-up of WWII militaries, so I'll leave the Eastwood comment alone (except to point out that, uh, Letters from Iwo Jima was told from the point of view of the Japanese, and I'm pretty sure that they, at least, didn't have a lot of black soldiers). As for the Coens: I don't see how anyone who's seen The Man Who Wasn't There could honestly say that the Brothers treat life (or death) as a joke. They're masters of tone, and they can be cavalier when called for (e.g. the Fargo woodchipper, most of Barton Fink), but they can get serious with the best of them. The sheer unrelenting intensity of No Country for Old Men -- which, I presume, is the film Lee was primarily referring to -- refutes the claim that anything in that movie is "a joke." The Coens approach life and death in ways that are interesting. Lee's comment shows a surprising inability (or unwillingness) to register nuance.


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13. "It's a pretty common sentiment about the Coen Bros."
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It's stopped me from "loving" a fair amount of their films. You're unable to connect to most of their films on an emotional level the way you do in Lee or Scorsese's flicks. In some ways, Big Lebowski is the their most-heartfelt movies and, not coincidentally, my fav of theirs.

  

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He was just saying his style was different than the Coens. No shame in that.

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And, as opposed to just sitting back and taking shots from the sidelines, he's actually gone and done something about it, and that's tell the story from the black perspective. So, good for Spike, I'll be there opening day...
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21. "CLINT EASTWOOD responds to SPIKE LEE (swipe)"
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BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - Veteran actor and director Clint Eastwood rejected criticism from fellow U.S. director Spike Lee that his films "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima" failed to recognize the role of African-American soldiers.

In an interview with Germany's Focus magazine, Eastwood said it was nonsense to suggest he had "erased the role of black GIs from history". He said there were no Afro-Americans in those films because there were no Afro-American soldiers involved.

"Does he know anything about American history?" Eastwood told Focus when asked about Lee's criticism. "The U.S. military was segregated til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

"The story was about the men who raised the flag and we can't make them black if they were not there. So tell him: Why don't you go back and study your history and stop mouthing off!"

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23. "LOL....I'm glad Eastwood responded though..."
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because that comment Spike made was a stupid one.
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24. "Absent From History: the Black Soldiers at Iwo Jima"
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Absent From History: the Black Soldiers at Iwo Jima

Nearly 900 African-Americans fought on the Japanese island but not one appears in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-tipped film, writes Dan Glaister.
On February 19 1945 Thomas McPhatter found himself on a landing craft heading toward the beach on Iwo Jima.

"There were bodies bobbing up all around, all these dead men," said the former US marine, now 83 and living in San Diego. "Then we were crawling on our bellies and moving up the beach. I jumped in a foxhole and there was a young white marine holding his family pictures. He had been hit by shrapnel, he was bleeding from the ears, nose and mouth. It frightened me. The only thing I could do was lie there and repeat the Lord's prayer, over and over and over."

Sadly, Sgt McPhatter's experience is not mirrored in Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood's big-budget, Oscar-tipped film of the battle for the Japanese island. While the battle scene's in the film - which opens today in the US - show scores of young soldiers in combat, none of them are African-American. Yet almost 900 African-American troops took part in the battle of Iwo Jima, including Sgt McPhatter.

The film tells the story of the raising of the stars and stripes over Mount Suribachi at the tip of the island. The moment was captured in a photograph that became a symbol of the US war effort. Eastwood's film follows the marines in the picture, including the Native American Ira Hayes, as they were removed from combat operations to promote the sale of government war bonds.

Mr McPhatter, who went on to serve in Vietnam and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the US navy, even had a part in the raising of the flag. "The man who put the first flag up on Iwo Jima got a piece of pipe from me to put the flag up on," he says. That, too, is absent from the film.

"Of all the movies that have been made of Iwo Jima, you never see a black face," said Mr McPhatter. "This is the last straw. I feel like I've been denied, I've been insulted, I've been mistreated. But what can you do? We still have a strong underlying force in my country of rabid racism."

Melton McLaurin, author of the forthcoming The Marines of Montford Point and an accompanying documentary to be released in February, says that there were hundreds of black soldiers on Iwo Jima from the first day of the 35-day battle. Although most of the black marine units were assigned ammunition and supply roles, the chaos of the landing soon undermined the battle plan.

"When they first hit the beach the resistance was so fierce that they weren't shifting ammunition, they were firing their rifles," said Dr McLaurin.

The failure to transfer the active role played by African-Americans at Iwo Jima to the big screen does not surprise him. "One of the marines I interviewed said that the people who were filming newsreel footage on Iwo Jima deliberately turned their cameras away when black folks came by. Blacks are not surprised at all when they see movies set where black troops were engaged and never show on the screen. I would like to say that it was from ignorance but anybody can do research and come up with books about African-Americans in world war two. I think it has to do with box office and what producers of movies think Americans really want to see."

He added: "I want to see these guys get their due. They're just so anxious to have their story told and to have it known."

Roland Durden, another black marine, landed on the beach on the third day. "When we hit the shore we were loaded with ammunition and the Japanese hit us with mortar." Private Durden was soon assigned to burial detail, "burying the dead day in, day out. It seemed like endless days. They treated us like workmen rather than marines."

Mr Durden, too, is wearied but unsurprised at the omissions in Eastwood's film. "We're always left out of the films, from John Wayne on," he said. Mr Durden ascribes to both the conspiracy as well as the cock-up theory of history. "They didn't want blacks to be heroes. This was pre-1945, pre civil rights."

A spokesperson for Warner Bros said: "The film is correct based on the book." The omission was first remarked upon in a review by Fox News columnist Roger Friedman, who noted that the history of black involvement at Iwo Jima was recorded in several books, including Christopher Moore's recent Fighting for America: Black Soldiers - the Unsung Heroes of World War II. "They weren't in the background at all," said Moore.

"The people carrying the ammunition were 90% black, so that's an opportunity to show black soldiers. These are our films and very often they become our history, historical documents." Yvonne Latty, a New York University professor and author of We Were There: Voices of African-American Veterans (2004), wrote to Eastwood and the film's producers pleading with them to include the experience of black soldiers. HarperCollins, the book's publishers, sent the director a copy, but never heard back.

"It would take only a couple of extras and everyone would be happy," she said. "No one's asking for them to be the stars of the movies, but at least show that they were there. This is the way a new generation will think about Iwo Jima. Once again it will be that African-American people did not serve, that we were absent. It's a lie."

The first chapter to James Bradley's book Flags of Our Fathers, which forms the basis of the movie, opens with a quotation from president Harry Truman. "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." It would provide a fitting endnote to Eastwood's film.

By Guardian Unlimited © Copyright Guardian Newspapers 2008
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25. "RE: Absent From History: the Black Soldiers at Iwo Jima"
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Sgt Thomas McPhatter, 8th US Marine Corps ammunition company, was at Iwo Jima in 1945. These are his memories

We set up an ammunition dump and the Japanese spotted it because they were firing mortars. There was black powder and smoke everywhere. It's unbelievable what you can smell. Men losing their legs ...

"On the second night we were hit again by mortar fire. All of a sudden the dump was burning. I said the whole dump's going to go soon, and we couldn't put the fire out. We made our way to the beach ... when I got to the beach my eyes were burning and the dispensary put something on my face. Two days later they start ammunition drops from planes. They started dropping the ammo in multi-coloured parachutes like an ice-cream canopy. So you've got to chase ammunition with the enemy firing on you. Oh, Lord. My platoon leader put us in for a commendation but that never got anywhere. It was beyond the call of duty.

"Our last involvement was when we turned back a banzai attack ... the last battle on Iwo Jima. There were army people there who had come after us to repair the airfield who were living in tents ... they came out of their holes with their swords drawn, high-hollering 'Banzai!' The Japanese cut the guy ropes and they were running them through the canvas with their swords. When they came through our area, we were still sleeping in the dirt. We cut them down. It was the black soldiers that did it. It's never been recognised.

  

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26. "But Eastwood said all of this though...."
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>Sgt Thomas McPhatter, 8th US Marine Corps ammunition company,
>was at Iwo Jima in 1945. These are his memories
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>We set up an ammunition dump and the Japanese spotted it
>because they were firing mortars. There was black powder and
>smoke everywhere. It's unbelievable what you can smell. Men
>losing their legs ...

He said that the black soldiers were part of an ammunition company. And Flags of our Fathers is NOT about them at all. And Flags' focus really isn't on the battle as a whole anyway.

To me, it sounds like Spike didn't even see Flags because it's commonly known that there wasn't a black guy actually putting up the flag.

  

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27. "RE: But Eastwood said all of this though...."
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Mr McPhatter, who went on to serve in Vietnam and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the US navy, even had a part in the raising of the flag. "The man who put the first flag up on Iwo Jima got a piece of pipe from me to put the flag up on," he says. That, too, is absent from the film.

  

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28. "RE: But Eastwood said all of this though...."
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>Mr McPhatter, who went on to serve in Vietnam and rose to the
>rank of lieutenant commander in the US navy, even had a part
>in the raising of the flag. "The man who put the first flag up
>on Iwo Jima got a piece of pipe from me to put the flag up
>on," he says. That, too, is absent from the film.


Is he saying that he actually raised one of the flags or that he handed a piece of pipe to someone who did? When I read that part I assumed he was saying that he should've been in the movie handing somebody a piece of pipe.
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makeda
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29. "RE: But Eastwood said all of this though...."
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i think you are intelligent enough to understand exactly what he said and what it means. now, this black man, being right next to the men hoisting this flag must mean that there was not this magical, invisible segregation bubble that surrounded white soldiers and separated them from the black soldiers and whatever other cultures were fighting together in the middle of that bs over there. basically, i'm saying that eastwood is either a willfully ignorant asshole, or a lying racist piece of shit for making the comments that he did asserting that it would have been factually impossible for him to included even ONE black soldier in his 'film'.

  

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16. "i have an ernie barnes buffalo soldiers print"
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17. "Might be good"
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18. "as long as spike didn't write the screenplay, it might be worth it"
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i'll check it out.

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what i'm digging right now:

chocolate butterfly - self-titled
laura jane - welcome to my planet boo
me & this japanese guy - waiting for the miracle
wade3 - dreams
tracey amos - who are we really?

  

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theMindofFury
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19. "RE: as long as spike didn't write the screenplay, it might be worth it"
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The book was quite good, I imagine the movie will live up to if not surpass that.

C


"This brother is free; I'll be what I want to be."

  

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31. "Do the Right Thing and She's Gotta Have It say otherwise"
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doberman
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20. "has the chance to be REALLY REALLY good"
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the book was excellent and should give spike a great framework to build on.

I can't wait for this.

  

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m
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30. "TRAILER"
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Source: Touchstone Pictures
June 12, 2008

Touchstone Pictures has brought online the trailer for director Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna," coming to theaters on September 26.

The film chronicles the story of four black American soldiers who are members of the US Army as part of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II. They experience the tragedy and triumph of the war as they find themselves trapped behind enemy lines and separated from their unit after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy.

Based on the James McBride novel (he also wrote the script), the movie stars Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Matteo Sciabordi, John Leguizamo, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Valentina Cervi.

You can watch the trailer in High Definition QuickTime and Flash format here:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809947151/video/8293703

  

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33. "I'm there."
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34. "shit I'm there!"
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though, am I supposed to be rooting for looters of Roman antiquities? They take that shit serious.

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36. "Im there n/m"
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40. "YEAH!"
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<--- Blame this lady for Nutty.

  

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42. "I'm sooooooo there on opening night"
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n/m

get money.

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44. "Two, please."
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35. "That shit looks great. I'm join the Derek Luke for Oscar Committee..."
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until it eventually happens. That cat is getting better and better in all his flicks, and I'll watch them joints if he's in it....unless its like "Biker Boyz 2" or some shit.

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mrshow
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37. "And that little boy..."
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grows up to open Sal's Pizza in Brooklyn.

  

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Tony Sparks
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38. "ha @ translation"
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http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/06/miracle_at_st_anna_trailer_spi.html

  

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39. "I saw the trailer during Incredible Hulk Friday night"
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When I realized what it was, I got chills. That one trailer was the best part of the next two hours that I spent at the movies that night.

  

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41. "Me too! This will be an event."
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Midtown Records
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43. "I saw the preview to this last week in the theatre"
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It looks really good.

  

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