The main writers are a couple of old Jewish guys.
An Asian is the rapper's friend.
The arresting officers are singing old doo wop songs.
The lawyer would make a good elementary school math teacher.
Prisons guards are also good elementary school math teachers and philosophers.
All of these praises on the other threads - I'm guessing it's coming from white people.
"Wakey wakey, hands off snakey," says one of the prison guards.
Lots of talk about "the game" (as in committing crimes!)
I thought the movie "Precious" was sanitized - this is like Pat Boone singing Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame?".
It's hard to be yourself in prison, the main character just say when given an ultimatum.
Gosh, only an hour to go!
Ked Ruticon is gone. He’s dead and he’s not coming back.
Ked was eighty years old and looked every year. Death didn’t do a lot for his corpse. His face looked more lined and his skin more pale.
“What kind of *beep* names his kid ‘Ked’?” Delaney wondered.
“I don’t know, Delaney.”
They wandered down the road to an all night hamburger stand.
(none of this was in the movie - I was just imagining missing scenes.
Somehow I don't think anyone is going to convert to Islam in this movie.
Guess some of those associated with the tv show "The Wire" had to swallow some pride.
Poetry turns grown, incarcerated men into ol' softies.
I have to walk to the 7-11 pretty soon.
Budget cuts make prison teachers weepy.
Blaxploitation movies are good frame of references - but for prisoners or for upper middle aged, white screenwriters? Remember when we all wanted to by Superfly or The Mac?
"I'm here on a petty weed charge."
Winning wars without using violence is a common discussion in prison.
Slam poetry brings with it a prophecy of the slam poet becoming a great man.
43 minutes to go....
From IMDB'S main critique:
"To quickly generalize: if you appreciate Spike Lee's work, you'll probably like Slam. Although Spike might be a little upset that a white Jewish director brought this to film :-) "
Ya think?
Also, I doubt I'm going to confuse "Do The Right Thing" with "Slam"...
When watching this, you might want to ask yourself, if black people
really say the "n" word as often (or as sweetly!) as the characters in this film, or did the middle age white writers just enjoy being able to use this word as often as they like without getting their asses kicked.
"Love is Winnie the Pooh doing voodoo in corrective shoes," quote from movie scene with different slam poets reading from their slam poetry.
I just know this is going to have a happy ending.
Did Disney make this movie?
Wow, a lot of passion about the "new world" a day or two before a big court appearance.
Wonder if this was on my Netflix we recommend list because of V-town address.
On an eating an ice-cream in a cone: "And then I crunch it on the cone."
The poem that Sonja Sohn recites toward the end is actually pretty powerful.
This movie makes me realize why the tv show M*A*S*H should be doubted.
Wow, Saul Williams' recitation at the end of the film is impressive.
These actors are far too good for this script. Even if it only had a budget of a million bucks, some authenticity in the plot. This movie deals with bad stereotypes.
Well-intentioned, but would have been stronger if less sanitized.
Hats off to the cast for trying to make the best of a cheesy script.
well the prison guards were the actual guards from the prison as were most of the prisoners with the exclusion of the leads. the dialogue was improvised, so yeah, I guess people really do talk that way.
shareThe "old Jewish guys" outlined the story. They didn't write any of the dialogue or a single line of poetry or anything in any rapper's verses
The Asian IS that "rapper"s friend. He is also a slam poet.
Why can't the officers sing doo wop?
The public defender would make a good elementary school math teacher? What's your point? That he seems unqualified to be a lawyer? Maybe that's why he's a public defender. They work for the state and are the only, last resort option for people who HAVE none. This is a DC prison. He is hardly an inaccurate representation of the type. He is very likely not an actor at all.
The prison guards are all actual prison guards. That guy lecturing about the amount of adult black males in prison is in several documentaries about the DC prison system.
Your post is unintentionally funny. You should get out more.