That scene where the Japanese are chasing Conner and Smith, and Smith pulls them into a dangerous neighborhood. And all the brothas all just chillin'. What was the point of that? That wasn't in the book!
Anyboby explain this to me?
Signed,
Booty
It was a rather "ham-fisted" if not racist attempt to put Snipes' character on his home turf as opposed to Connery's expertise with all things Japanese.
Watching this now on cable...the whole film is a mess...forgotten how bad this was.
I think that scene shows why The Pelican Brief works better than this film. Both films take a character originally written to be white, and cast a black actor. Rising Sun goes out of its way to rewrite Smith as a black character, complete with ghetto upbrining, hiphop language, and oversensitivity to any racial remark. Grantham, on the other hand, was a character that could have been white, but Denzel Washington happened to be the best actor available--and he made the character believable, without the writers going out of their way to add stereotypical behaviors to make him black.
shareWith Denzel or Jamie Foxx as lead actor it could have been a good film, but Snipes ruins the movie. They should have jailed him for his acting and not for tax evasion.
shareThe whole messy inclusion of Snipes, over Crichton's objections, was and is used as a weapon against Crichton for his supposed racism, but he was right: it deflects the whole point of the story, and then the idiotic scene of the lovable homies! As I said to a dumb Snipes fan who thought that he could play the Poitier character in PRESSURE POINT, he acts like the jock who got the lead in the school play.
sharethat scene was great. those japan dudes got some serious street justice!
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
Why would making him stereotypically white be any better than making him stereotypically black? And what's wrong with making him a black character? This is such an unbelievably racist comment. You suggesting that elements that make him a black American somehow make him a worst character?
shareI thought that scene was hilarious. "Armani? Giorgio."
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