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What is this movie trying to say? (spoilers will obviously be in here)

posted 9 years ago by Seth_Rogue_One
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I was trying to figure out what the message of the movie could have been

I'm guessing it has something to do with race?

Like black people should stop killing their own?

The only people that the 'vampire' feeds on are black women, is it trying to say that black men should respect women? (and not kill them lol)

I didn't get the use of rap music in this movie cause none of the main characters are 'hiphop' they are all higher class citizens that speak like they are proffesors at Oxford

Was the use of rap music symbolical somehow? Like a message talking about how sexist and violent rap music is and how that is 'killing women' symbolically?

The fact that the last woman they kill had blue eyes (still black tho) couldn't have been a coincidence

Yeah as you see I'm left with more questions then answers here lol so help me out

Oh yeah then there was the whole dog thing, in one scene (I think it was the starting montage of breakers) there was graffiti on a wall saying "Yeah it's me dog" and the 'vampires' licked the blood off the ground like a dog would lick up water

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[–] leejean21 8 years ago

I just caught the last 20 minutes or so of this movie and have no idea what they were trying to communicate through it. Very strange film.

[–] carters6 8 years ago

Well after watching Ganja & Hess last night, and now seeing that in Spike Lee's credits that the writer and director of that is listed (the late Bill Gunn) I see it is a remake of the cult movie. Same scenes, etc. so it looks to me that he's just doing his interpretation of it. But this version is more modern, of course, and extends on scenes more. With it being more modern, I figure that's where the rap music comes in but keep in mind that one's social status or class does not determine the type of music that fits them--many intellects listen to rap so I don't think that has anything to do with the choice of music.

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[–] at7000 8 years ago

Spike, seeing everything throught the prism of race and discrimination, had to "stuff" as much Black culture in as he possibly could.

A dance sequence opening, that was completely irrelevent to the film, rap music thrown in to give Spike some "street cred" and edgy-ness, etc...

He is an angry midget with a chip on his shoulder.

Ironic thing is, I share most of his same politics, I am pro Black power, liberal/progressive, help the needy, ending police brutality of minorities, etc...

Spike just approaches it all like a whiny little cry-baby.

[–] Satchmos_Chillun 8 years ago

I really agree that rap music isn't limited to lower-class types, it's silly to think that

The vampires licking the blood up are in the original film Ganja and Hess too... at least one vampire does. There might be some analogy made between rap-speak, i.e. "dog," and the vampires forced to lick blood off of floors in a lowly way. Somebody already suggested that AIDS might be alluded to in the film...bring that into your theorizing, ha ha.

[–] Seth_Rogue_One 8 years ago

I guess... But just the way they carried themselves and spoke etc, there was nothing hiphop about them it would made alot more sense if they listened to jazz or something

And I see I see, interesting about the significance of 'dog' yeah that could be it, and could be why it has a rap-soundtrack, perhaps the movie is some metaphor for the 'death of hiphop' or black culture or something... Will try to keep that in mind if I rewatch it sometime and see how it matches out

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