Was he paying these people?
Found it weird that the hostility was so quickly turned to cooperation. Makes you question the integrity.
"get outta here cracka." 5 seconds later they're conducting an interview.
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The people who said that were not the ones who were interviewed. Watch it again.
shareEhrm yes the DJ POOH looking guy with the glasses and the skinny guy were there on the porch... Nick even comments on it 'Mr. soandso had had a change of mind and rang us up so he could talk to us'
A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.
""get outta here cracka." 5 seconds later they're conducting an interview."
I actually laughed my arse off at this, you hit the nail on the head. Ripper.
Maybe they were hostile because they didn't know what he was about. If you're a black person in that kind of neighbourhood and you see some out-of-place looking white guy wandering around, asking questions, the conclusions that he's a police or some newsman running down their neighbourhood would be much higher on the list than, "Oh, clearly he's a documentarian from England..." Not until he actually introduces himself would you really know any different.
shareHe's running around with cameras. How would that be a cop? They knew what he was doing there.
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Broomfield alwats pays people for interviews...he even shows himself negotiating & paying people in his heidi fleiss doc...the guys in this doc were definitely on the hustle...but nick also plays dumb & naive to get more info out of people
shareI do believe that that is the case.
One thing that struck me as weird was how many people would initially start off as saying how he seemed normal and was a good guy and then mention things about him that would suggest otherwise.
Like the ex girlfriend of Lonnie's son who initially said that 'Lonnie and his wife seemed like a normal couple, whatever I wanted I could depend on him to fix' to 3 minutes later be talking about how she could sense that he was listening to her and his son having sex and how he was a perv etc etc.
And his best buddies who'd be like he was a good guy to talking about how he'd torture prostitutes in vivic descriptions of for instance jamming a screwdriver up in their anus.
Like okay, do you have any sort of concept of what a 'good guy' and a 'normal' guy is or did you just change your story because Nick Broomfield wanted something juicy to put in his film and he was offering you extra money for it?
It's really hard to know what to think is the truth when you are watching a Broomfield movie because he relies so much on manipulation.
"Biggie and Tupac" for instance have had people like Eugene Deal (Biggie's Bodyguard) talk about how he would twist your words around and make you say something you didn't mean. And of course the documentary all pointed out as Suge Knight having Tupac killed, which barely no one believes in this day and age.
And what happened with Lonnie's son Chris in the end? they meet him by his house and he's dressed nicely, they cut it to their studio and he's dressed like a homeless guy with dirt everywhere... It looked like they literally had dirted him up on the spot because it would work better for some reason for the film. And he was looking at it hands in the first shot like "damn, y'all went all out with the dirt".
A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.
Hell ya he paid em. I'm from and still live in a neighborhood like this. You ain't walking in talking to nobody without throwing cash around
shareThe same guy that said Lonnie was "such a good car thief", was the one calling Nick a peckerwood. He also corrected himself and said that he never saw Lonnie steal a car, but dealt in a sh!tload of Goddamn cars!
To answer your question though, watch Nick's interview here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yO8v2Lp3Ks4
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