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Sub Text to Tupac's Dialogue

posted 18 years ago by Snoogens
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Just been watchin Gridlock'd on Channel 4, I'm a massive 2Pac fan and just noticed something I didn't last time I watched this film. In the scene at the rehab clinic the sketchy guy (Didn't catch his name) says you get on the program quicker if you take the AIDS test and Tupac retorts with 'I ain't taking no damn HIV test!' this is extremely similar to his own response to Janet Jackson's request during the shooting of Poetic Justice as detailed in Tupac Resurrection, does anyone know if this line was ad-libbed or did the director have it as an in-joke or am I just reading too deeply into this? Tupac was awesome tho, I'm not some crazy Makaveli 7-day theorist. Honest.

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[–] Something2die4 18 years ago

Only becouse you thought about the "aids test" situation on the set of Poetic Justice during the Gridlock'd scene doesnt mean it had something to do with it. People taking an HIV test could recieve a medicaid card faster than normal. The dricetor coulden't put something like that in there as a joke, only becouse of Tupac's situation, knowwhatimsayin.

In the movie he ended up taking the test, but not in real life though :-)

[–] Snoogens 18 years ago

Yea I know he didn't take it in real life, must've been cos I watched Resurrection b4 I saw this I made the link. It was the choice of having 2pac's character saying it emphatically with a close-up of him just made me think maybe it was something he(tupac) meant to say, there's tons of subliminal stuff in 2Pac's work just thought this might have been an example.

It's a shame she won't live,
Then again, who does...

[–] BastardJon1 10 years ago

Also "I don't want a punctured lung" he said, or words to that effect. One of the bullets that killed him punctured his lung which he needed to have removed.