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Once and for all I gotta watch this shit 😅
“He didn’t give up – he got down”
Man this entire thing sounds so crazy today and yet I can *totally* see this sounding like a good idea when it was made
HE DIDNT GIVE UP HE GOT DOWN GEEEEEEEZZZZ
C. Thomas Howell ended up marrying Rae Dawn Chong (his love interest in the movie). The marriage didn’t last long.
I seem to remember this movie contained a notable James Earl Jones speech about the value of a Harvard law degree (?)
IKR those tuition fees are super cheap
Casual suicide? Check.
“This is the Cosby era!” unironically? Check.
Blackface? Check.
“He didn’t give up. He got down”. Awesome.
Masterpiece!
Look times were different back then, it was the Cosby decade.
Spike Lee’s biggest complaint at the time was that he didn’t think he looked believable as a black guy.
Wait until this thread hears about The Toy with Richard Pryor.
I see your Soul man and I’ll raise you a [Tiptoes](https://youtu.be/O3qGGk5ymQ4)
Wasn’t this movie a statement about racism? Like this rich white guy becomes black suddenly and it’s fun and games at first but then he has to experience racism firsthand? I was 6 when it came out but remember my parents talking about it a lot.
don’t get the hate, the movie is about racism, the rich white guy does something stupid and has uneducated opinions and views on the difference in race, then learns his mistakes and how dumb other white people can be towards race, his parents show their racist views too, what is the issue?
I saw this in the era.
There’s a moment where one of protagonist’s white friends makes a “black joke” in his presence in AAVE accent. To Howell’s credit, he looks so hurt and shocked. For me, it was actually kinda eye opening and was part of my voyage to a hopefully less-ignorantly racist view.
It might be bad all around, but I’ve never forgotten that moment.
Double feature with White Chicks?
This was one of the best horrible movies ever. After he finishes making love to his woke girlfriend, she say she could feel “400 years of anger and oppression in every pelvic thrust”, as he lies there, panting, looking at the ceiling.
The movie is far more a criticism of white racism than it is a simple race-ploitation movie. The dinner scene is hilarious and accurate.
It’s a better movie than it seems to be. But it’s not a great movie. It’s worth watching.
Used to love that film. It got me into Sam and Dave and various musicians of the era. Film’s heart was in the right place.
Harvard for 3 years was 50k?!?