#johnwitherspoon

[dudja]

classic #Friday #comedy #classic #icecube #johnwitherspoon #christucker rip john

[elliscraddock]

Here's my #8thRocksShuffle #8thRocks dance video w/whirlwind sound effects/high tone version of #TheBoondocks theme song on YouTube to pay tribute to #ReginaKing(#RileyFreeman/#HueyFreeman) & the late #JohnWitherspoon(#RobertFreeman). Also click the like, share, subscribe, & hit a notification button on my YouTube channel.

Here's a link of my dance video(short) on YouTube:

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[praphit]

It’s BHM! So, you know... “Friday”.

In honor of Black History Month, I figured I'd do a Classic Review of one of the blackest movies of all time. I was thinking to myself: "New Jack City"? "Barbershop"? "Harlem Nights"? "Malcolm X"? I really should have went with "Malcolm X"... oh well, the next best movie to my homeboy Malcolm's is...

"FRIDAY"

A film about two young brothas, getting high on a porch.

Y'all might say, "Who cares? I do that every night."

I can see that, but this was a different time. Back in the day, you had to be more secretive about your weed game.

Only Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Bill Clinton were allowed to smoke, publicly, back then.

Now, we've got some legalizations, your mama probably smokes it in the kitchen for... some "medical reason", I'm sure. The stigma is lessened (Thank God), BUT not gone.

It's only freely-legal in certain spots around the world. It's not like you can show up to Sunday dinner smelling like pot; Grandma would def smack you upside the head. 

And I don't think you're going to see The Pope smoking a blunt during one of his messages anytime soon. It's still worse in the media's eyes when a black person is smoking it than a white person... but we'll move the needle on the struggle as we can :)

Our story starts with Craig (Ice Cube) & Smokey (Chris Tucker).

Like all blazed duos (Cheech & Chong, Harold & Kumar, Snoop & Martha), adventures await, 

only this adventure would be contained to their neighborhood... and mainly Craig's parents porch.

When I was a kid, watching this movie, I could relate more to a small adventure like this. When you're a kid, it's really just school, your block, and maybe some games; your world is small. The thing is that these two are not kids. They're two broke ass black MEN in their early twenties.

There's a lot happening, in and around their porch though: drug deal action, fights, pooping outside of someone's house (have you ever done that? - never mind, don't answer... I don't want to know), women

 women, 

and more women 

(that's Mrs. Parker, entertaining the neighborhood), 

and this Rev. Booty (we'll call him), 

ready to entertain MRS. Parker.

There's a Rev. Booty on every ministry team. Some dude creeping through the congregation, trying to (and probably succeeding to) bang your wife... or your husband. These days it could be either one... or both - that’s progress!

Think what you will about Rev. Booty - he's got a job; our High Heroes do not. I know the wackiness around them may seem cool, but not so much when you ain't got no money. Then, it's just sad.

"Friday" Lesson #1 - It's Not Cool to be Broke

The movie is a bit deceiving in that these two unmotivated gentlemen are still getting play from the ladies in the neighborhood. All men know that women can smell a stink on a man, that's smells worse than his weed, and that is the scent of having NO MONEY.

But, these two men are just trying to LIVE! Craig lost his job, stealing boxes from work. THE MAN took that job away. It's almost like THE MAN wants Craig smoking weed, all day, on the porch.

Could’ve happened to any of us! How many of y'all have stolen something small from work?! A pen? Some napkins? A packet of ketchup? A roll of toilet paper? Be honest! I didn't make you be honest about pooping outside; be honest here! We all have!

Craig & Smokey have got to deal with drug dealers, guns, a bully named Deebo 

(Tommy Lister Jr - RIP), 

a father with boundary issues... 

all while being high as hell - that's a rough time in life!

They don't need super villains! They've got the good Reverend trying to bang their moms.

"Friday" Lesson #2 - Get the bleep out of the Hood!

Get out! You can give back, if you want, but AFTER you get out! Some people say "No, you've got to LOVE the hood. HEAL the hood." That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The hood does not want your love or your healing. The hood wants to mug you, and take all of your shit! Think of the cast of this movie: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Regina King, John Witherspoon (RIP), Nia Long, Bernie Mac (RIP) - all got out of the hood!

GET OUT, DAMMIT!

The climax of this story comes when Smokey, who was supposed to be selling weed, but due to his name (Nature over Nurture) had been smoking it instead. As a result, he owed some drug  dealer 200 hundred dollars. Of course, when a drug dealer is owed money, they're going to collect OR they're going to start shooting.

Two men in their 20's can't seem to come up with 200 bucks. Their families and friends, apparently can't either.... or more likely, they don't want to get involved.

"Friday" Lesson #3 - Don't Nobody Give a F%ck!

Got parents catching their kids with guns, and they keep it moving. You've got one bully named Deebo, terrorizing the city. Mrs. Parker out here, with no clothes on, bending over for... God knows what, watering her grass for 5 hours everyday, and somehow the hose keeps accidentally turning on herself... 

very slowly.... 

you know that might not actually be a problem:)

But, drugs, domestic violence, and the threat of your son getting murdered are certainly problems; problems that no one seems to care about in that neighborhood.

There's a scene where the neighborhood gets shot up, two women are assaulted, there's a street fight (with no one stepping in to help. Just a dad saying "Let him be a man"), and some dude gets hit with a brick. I didn't see one cop! Not just in this scene... I'm talking about the entire movie, with this kinda thing happening all of the time.

And then, at the end of that action, everyone just goes in and goes to sleep. There's still a dude ( even though he's the bad guy) unconscious on the ground. Look, he's either dead and is going to rot, eventually (cuz the cops ain't showing up) OR he's going to wake up and murder everyone who was in that scene.

Get out of the hood!

Grade: It's a classic, for sure! I'll watch it again and again. But, is it a good movie? - no :) Perhaps it was back in 1995, when it came out. It's a funny movie! Every time Chris Tucker or John Witherspoon were on camera, I laughed out loud. But... you know :) 

Still a classic though.

a very generous B-

I really should have done "Malcolm X" to honor BHM, right? Denzel? 

That's a powerful movie. Not really any laughs in "Malcolm X" though, and certainly no Mrs. Parker

[doomonfilm]

Favorites : I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

Over at the I Know What You Did podcast, where Millie and Danielle have spent the month of February focusing specifically on Black creators in honor of Black History Month, the films covered have been mostly serious, as compelling as they’ve been.  Imagine my surprise at the fact that, for the final episode of this stretch, the focus would turn to not only one of the most prolific Black families of creators out there, but quite possibly the current first-family of funny, the Wayans family.  While Don’t Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood is not my jam, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka is and always will be, and with that DVD already positioned for a Black History Month viewing, it jumped from being on the list to a position at the top.

Jack Spade (Keenen Ivory Wayans) returns to Any Ghetto, U.S.A. after a tour of duty to find his brother Junebug has lost his life to a case of “overgold”.  Jack vows to care for his mother Belle Brown-Spade (Ja’net Dubois) and Junebug’s widow Cheryl Spade (Dawnn Lewis), but after the women are threatened by Leonard (Damon Wayans) and Willie (Kadeem Hardison), henchmen to the notorious Mr. Big (John Vernon), Jack makes the choice to eliminate the negative element from his neighborhood.  He reaches out to former hero John Slade (Bernie Casey) for assistance, and initially Slade refuses, but after Leonard and Willie make an attempt on Slade’s life, he decides to join the fight.  In hopes of evening the score, he enlists the help of some of his former vigilante friends : Hammer (Isaac Hayes), Slammer (Jim Brown), Flyguy (Antonio Fargas) and Kung Fu Joe (Steve James).  With both sides at full power and intent on removal of the opposition, tensions rise and bullets fly.

Outside of the Zucker/Abrams/Zucker camp, I haven’t seen anyone pull off trope-based humor the way that the Wayans family has been able to, and it all started with Keenen Ivory Wayans and his early Hollywood work.  I’m Gonna Git You Sucka embraced two different sets of tropes, shuffled them together like a deck of cards, and dealt them out to audiences in a manner where everyone got a winning hand.  First and foremost, the film is an ode to Blaxploitation classics, and all of the earmarks of the genre are present, up to and including ex-soldiers returning home, the impact of drug dealing on the Black community, the role of vigilantes stepping up to protect the ghetto when police are absent or corrupt, and so on.  Normally, this genre of film takes itself deadly serious, but Wayans pours heaps and heaps of comedy into the mix, with running jokes, physical comedy, tons of sight gags, hilarious subversions of expectation, and even extremely base-level seriousness making the film as memorable as it is funny.

The real power of the film, however, comes in its lasting legacy in terms of how it served as a stylistic and generational bridge between the stars of the past and the promise of the future.  Keenen Ivory Wayans pays direct homage to the past by including some of the biggest names from the Blaxploitation era in key roles, and he uses the rest of the casting as an opportunity to not only showcase the talents of his vast family, but also open doors for a wealth of hilarious up and comers (many of whom are still working to this day).  The issues that plagued the Blaxploitation era are given a modern day equivalent, with drugs and sexual exploitation replaced with the embracing of hip-hop and gangster culture, but this substitution does not cheapen the strength of the narrative, despite the film’s comedic intentions.  The film is even deceptively poignant in the way that it exposes systematic oppression and police corruption.

In terms of production value, everything is more than acceptable, but from what I can surmise, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka wasn’t created to be a cinematic masterpiece.  The main aim of the film is clearly humor, and Keenen Ivory Wayans obliterates the bullseye he targeted.  The music cues all work, even the ones that are direct references to films of the past, and even some of those cues are used for humorous sight gags.  Wardrobe-wise, the film is surprisingly strong, with the costuming providing memorable outfits from the modern era, Blaxploitation era, and even a few ridiculous over-the-top costumes (including those outrageous goldfish platforms).

Keenen Ivory Wayans definitely had a lot on his plate as the writer and director of the film, but all of those obligations didn’t take away from his ability to play a comically inept version of a leading man with pinpoint precision.  Ja’net Dubois takes the trope of protective mother to new and outrageous heights, while Dawnn Lewis plays the damsel and distress with incredibly comedic nuance.  Bernie Casey is too cool for school, which makes his sharp one-liners and punchlines even funnier due to their curveball-esque delivery.  Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Antonio Fargas and Steve James are all able to take character aspects that made their careers and flip them on their ears, turning them into jokes without them feeling like they are the butt of said jokes.  John Vernon brings a sense of gravitas to his antagonist position, but like everyone else in the film, he manages to keep it humorous without going too ridiculous... instead, he allows the ridiculousness to come from Damon Wayans and Kadeem Hardison as his henchmen.  The list of cameo appearances reads like its own solid comedy film, with the likes of Clarence Williams III, Clu Gulager, John Witherspoon, David Alan Grier, Eve Plumb, Robin Harris, Kim Wayans, Nadia Wayans, Hawthorne James, Gary Owens, Tony Cox and more popping up, and even Robert Townsend and Peggy Lipton providing uncredited roles.

While it’s true that the comedy films of the Wayans family can be divisive in terms of reception, it’s hard to argue against I’m Gonna Git You Sucka being a classic.  The film opened many doors for Keenen Ivory and the rest of his family, and with his next project being the culturally iconic In Living Color, it seemed like the sky was the limit for his family.  As we stand thirty-plus years removed from this declaration, it’s impressive to see that the Wayans family is still rising.

[ifnotmethenwhoo]

Complex question simple answer. ❤️

[cruxworldwide]

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[mindofkimbo]

**Happy Anniversary** Apparently today is the 25th anniversary of one of my all-time favorite movies!! Here’s my rendition of one of the most iconic scenes in the movie! ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Also R.I.P. to the great John Witherspoon for his impact on my childhood and on Hollywood. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ #artofkimbo #fridaymovie #icecube #christucker #djpooh #johnwitherspoon https://www.instagram.com/p/B_dE_Y9Bhk7/?igshid=16lnw4k6n1nbi

[bigbabarob]

Thanks @marcusthevisual for this beautiful tribute to #johnwitherspoon. I emotionally connected with this piece as someone who is a big fan of the show. #hueyfreeman #rileyfreeman #robertfreeman #respect #art ————————————————- #Repost @marcusthevisual with @get_repost ・・・ RIP Mr. Witherspoon #boondocksbootleg #johnwitherspoon https://www.instagram.com/p/B4R3Gt3hAO6/?igshid=zi1e68tool96

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John Witherspoon

[cartermagazine]

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[mrrogerscardigans]

Brrrrooooooo. Fucking john Witherspoon died. I'm so hurt right now. You were supposed to be eternal. Rest in peace pops!

[teawithqueenandj]

The possibility of @jeniferlewisforreal voicing Grandad’s sister in a new @boondocksbootleg has us all in our feelings! Check out this Black girl Boondocks by @marcusthevisual while we pull ourselves together 😍 • #teawithqj #theboondocks #johnwitherspoon #marcusthevisual #animation #jeniferlewis #art #blackartist https://www.instagram.com/p/B53Alc8lj3h/?igshid=14xzmpzko5xv5

[nokspit]

Horrible news #RIP