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I love the comments on the video: He was screaming cause he didn't have the 2 dollars on him.
This had me cracking up even more.
Oh that reminds me, it's Toonie Tuesday today
It looks like something that belongs in a Wayons brothers parody movie. That made my morning.
Didn't they directly parody this scene in one of their movies? Was it Don't Be a Menace?
Scary Movie has a similar ending.
Scary movies ending parodies The usual suspects.
She screams 'noooooooo' after that bit though
I have to go against the grain here. Yes, the scene is unintentionally funny out of context, the swooping camera, the absurd outpouring of emotion. It looks amateurish, but it's also very honest and brave. It's a distillation of one of the main themes of Jungle Fever, the destruction of the black community (by crack) and black bodies (by addiction and poverty leading to prostitution).
It's unsubtle, but if you've sat through the film and experienced the drama, it feels conclusive, even a little satisfying. I don't agree with Spike Lee's choices, in fact they're often a turn-off, but I admire his stylistic boldness. His films, most of them anyway, feel alive.
I watch a lot of "so bad they're good" type movies (though I dislike that term) and I think unintentional hilarity comes from the movie (or TV or whatever) defying our preconceived notions of either how media is made or how people behave, or both. A lot of people will take that disconnect between how movies are usually made and how that particular movie was made and declare it bad, or poor filmmaking, simply because they're not used to it.
I think you can find something funny that isn't meant to be funny, and still appreciate the artistry or the message behind it, when warranted. And I think everyone should appreciate when an artist makes a unique, surprising, interesting choice, even if it seems like the wrong one.
Well said.
Eh I don't, expressing their message in absurd way where you just have to laugh at the ridiculousness is never really any beneficial as opposed to a grounded way (I know they're be some outlandish which are fine but I mean in the case like the this thread is on)
I disagree with both of you.
Expressing yourself in an absurd way for a laugh can be good, but film making like above is quite bad.
Characters don't need to behave logically or properly, and you don't even have to believe that what's going on is real. Breaking the fourth wall is common and can be enjoyable, both as a sudden subversion of expectations or as a stylistic choice in a more whimsical universe.
The above is just awkward and clunky, it might fit into the style of the movie, but really it felt like poor direction and acting and blocking and cinemtography. I doubt the character would behave that way throughout the film, and I don't think it was intentional.
Well that there is the problem. We can debate night and day whether the clip above was funny or not, but we cannot really judge how it fits in with the narrative uness we watch the entire film, which I have not.
But I'm sure everything so bad you laugh is awkward and clunky and the stylistic choice was a poor one if that's your reaction to it
well duh, america's funniest home videos wouldn't have been as popular as it was if people being stupid couldn't be funny.
Speed Racer
If you watch a movie like you're describing while tripping you get rid of the preconcieved notions and expectations and things just are, they aren't weird, what happens happens
I love Speed Racer.
Have you seen it tripping?
I thought it was cool but not all that special prior.
But once I saw it on acid it became something else entirely. Not just the visuals, the spinning, the colors the crazy insanity. But the way the story jumps back and forth in time, how things are revealed, the profile face shots going back and forth, the way it presents the history and tiny details about things.
There's no way the brothers didn't know what they were making, it's definitely not the visuals either, doctor strange was cool looking but as a movie it gained nothing vs seeing it not tripping
Sober the emotional parts didn't hit, they felt off and out of sorts, the monkey stuff seemed too absurd. But tripping I feel every emotion they do, it feels like it's happening to you. The monkey stuff was a delight, the training faculty was insane with all the lines and repeating patterns. But that desert race opening going through that tunnel my god pure amazement, then the final race is just non stop gripping
Yeah, this is pretty spot on. I saw this film in the theater when it came out, and the ending seemed earned. There was always a hint of artificiality to Lee's earlier movies, and the end of Jungle Fever fits in pretty well with his style at the time. Remember that he was considered quite the auteur and audiences were willing to embrace his artistic sensibilities (or eccentricities, if you will). The early '90s indie movement could be pretty experimental.
Agreed. He goes for a similar thing with the "Wake Up" ending of School Daze. It works better in that film because it's more theatrical but Spike Lee is a student of melodrama and loves to hit with the sledge hammer.
I think JF is exceptional otherwise.
I'm sorry but there is no excuse for a 30 foot zoom into a screaming NOOO! outside of a comedy, ever.
I mean, I could probably dig up some classic nutty camera moves in acclaimed movies...
The zoom is incidental
I'm not sure how you mean - it's absolutely intentional.
I would really love for you to do that! Make your own post, it will be popular.
Maybe I will...but I probably won't. It's too time consuming tbh.
It also doesn't help that Wesley Snipes doesn't have to chops to emote that hard and probably went over his head too.
It's on par with Vadar's "NoooOOooo9OOoo9oooo!"
I doubt it went over his head but yeah, he doesn't quite nail it.
Did you miss the zoom at the end?
Not sure I understand your question.
Nonsense, it's fucking stupid. Spike shat the bed
I don't get why people say movies are "brave". What's brave exactly?
I think making an unconventional choice takes a degree of courage, especially when you know, as an artist, your work will be mercilessly picked apart.
legit one of my favorite movies of all time. Never gets old, I've rewatched it like 10 times. Flipper, flipper's brother,the setting/dialogue,pacing, it's all good
It's a good movie. Just has a real weird ending.
the entire movie is weird. That scene at the dinner table is one of the weirdest things I have ever seen. Or the flipper's brother scene at the end with the bizarre totally out of place music playing on blast in the background
Context?
In the film Snipes is a man who has an affair with a white woman. He has a young daughter and a brother whose a crack addict. I think The intention of this scene was to highlight his fear of his own daughter going down that path.
This is how I always saw it, too, but holy hell is this bad and in complete opposition to the tone of everything else in the movie. Great find, hadn't seen this in years.
I still don't understand. Did that look like his daughter? I can't understand why he would react this way to just some random hooker on the street.
You will never understand what it's like until you become a parent. NEVER!
Thank you for reminding why I stopped watching that show. But good reference.
She calls him daddy, and yes, I guess she does kind of look like his daughter
ooh. I didn't even catch the "daddy" thing. That's really stupid. I might need to watch this movie to see how stupid it is.
*who's
Uggg...just stop
no
All I can think while watching the video is how flawlessly clean all those car windows are.
In this movie Wesley Snipes plays a character called "Flipper Purify" and Samuel L Jackson plays a character called "Gator".
Just sayin'.
Gator don't play no shit!
Gator's bitches better be using jimmies!
Who's baby is that?! Who's the man who did that to you?!
I like when Gators mother asked what happened to the T.V.? Gator said he smoked it.
Flipper and Gator Purify? Lol
Hahahah...wow. Thank you for sharing that. That...that was amazing
It's amazing in the film too. A completely serious drama that ends on this ridiculous scene.
Yeah, I think the movie is actually quite good. Too bad the final minute is so stupid.
i think that might elevate the whole film.
You mean by comparison it makes the rest of the film look better? I don't know - I was enjoying the film a lot until that wtf ending. I can easily look past it, but it's pretty jarring.
tbh it's full of ridiculous over the top scenes, but that's why it is so good. The scene with angela and her dad, flipper's brother towards the end
Agreed, the movie is brilliant. The Taj Mahal crackhouse scene was one of the best Spike Lee has ever done. The ending.....I'd love to hear what Spike says of it now because it was outright bizarre.
I thought the title said Jungle 2 Jungle and was very confused
I now really want Tim Allen replacing Welsey Snipes in that scene. At least he'd fit the tone of a comedy much better.
"Yo, daddy, I'll suck ya black did for 2 dollas!"
"UUUUAAAHH?!?
They'll flip the script on your ass, like Wesley and Spike
You can not mess with the light, Look at lil' Chano from 79th
Haven't seen the movie, but this reminds me of Norm McDonald. Maybe the movie is one long setup for the punchline. Bravo!
Love this movie, the dinner conversation(monologue) from Ossie Davis is one of the funniest scenes in cinema.
Also love that Charlie Murphy had a small part in this movie.
Damn $2 tho? Can't beat that...
Love this movie and scene
Ehh realism isn't everything
Now if you watch this clip and pretend this is the ending to a Blade movie where Blade becomes cured & reformed and thinks he stopped all of the vampires...it makes it even more hilarious.
Who is that chick
That's how I ended up here; I had the same question.
He says "Noooooo-" while he has both arms around her? Mixed signals, my guy.
Fucking hilarious. Nice find, OP. Spike Lee is such a hamfisted douchebag but I do love "25th Hour".
25th Hour was based on a great novel and the film script was written by the author. It escaped a lot of Lee's usual pitfalls because of that.
Lee had made great movies prior to 25th Hour though. It wouldn't have been as good as it was without him at the helm.
Get On The Bus, Do The Right Thing (OBVIOUSLY), Crooklyn, Malcolm X, Mo Better Blues, School Daze, She's Gotta Have It, even Inside Man is pretty sick. Sure he lost his way later on a bit but I dunno what these guys are talking about
Inside man was actually a super legit heist film.
They better wake up!
His last two films Chi-Raq and Rodney King were great too
no love for He Got Game? (personal fave as a bball player)
I also enjoyed Clockers
I concur. He is a better director than writer, though. That was what I was insinuating.
A great novel (and Screenplay) written by David Benioff, Executive Producer and Co-Creator of Game of Thrones.
Yep. Also a writer on X-Men Origins: Wolverine! They can't all be zingers.
it's very much a spike lee movie still, a lot of stylish and themes are in there
I agree, I was referring to the writing and structure. Lee's a better director than writer, in my opinion.
Yet the two monologues/montages are very much Spike spiking the punch.
Wow...really stepping out of the safety zone of the circle jerk that is that sub with that opinion.
cmon, he's made a few classics and some other solid movies
yes he's a dbag though
Unintentional humor...it's the BEST kind of humor!
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Exactly how serious would you like for him to take himself? lol.
seriousspikely.
Because being over-the-top humorless makes you look smart. Duh!
Well, that was a real Two Dollah Hollah.
lol that's hilarious.
speaking of unintentionally funny scenes, one of my favorites is the scene in Point Break where FBI Agent Johnny Utah tries to learn how to surf because he believes the bank robbers he's after are surfers. he jumps straight into the deep end without knowing how to surf and gets swept under a wave and almost drowns. he's rescued by a female surfer who drags him to shore. once he's safe on the the beach she leaves him and yells something like "stay out of the water, you'll kill yourself, idiot" and as she is paddling away Johnny Utah yells...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqRQxZMvPzw
and I crack up laughing every time.
That composer worked on a lot of Spike's films. And he's the worst. He always used the most baffling musical cues in scenes.