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 Posted: Wed 2:42, 04 Sep 2013 Post subject: 'Don t Be a Menace' |
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'Don t Be a Menace',[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
rap videos now exist to provide ample material for the Wayans family to do what it does best: poke fun at other people, this time in the 'hood with "Don't Be a Menace." The trick is to make the already ridiculous completely outrageous. To understand most of its references, you should know,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for example,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], John Singleton's "Boyz N the Hood" and "Poetic Justice," the Hughes brothers' "Menace II Society,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever" and at least one music video by Dr. Dre or Snoop Doggy Dogg."Don't Be a Menace"梒omplete title,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood"梖ollows two young men,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ashtray (Shawn) and Loc Dog (Marlon),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in an effort to explain "how it really is" living in south-central, the premier "ghetto" in film and videos today. The result is more a pastiche of parody than a story. Loc Dog asks Ashtray for fashion advice. In many successful scenes, the Wayans deftly play on our assumptions and cliches. They catch the viewer sleeping and deliver deadly punches: A gray-haired grandmother who is not sweet and, instead, uses the trendiest 'hood profanity,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], smokes blunts of marijuana and out-dances Rosie Perez. A mother comes home,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], catching her teenage daughter having sex and, rather than the usual boy-escapes-out-the-window scene, Mom dons her dominatrix outfit and wants to join in the fun. We think Loc Dog is making crack,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but he's not. Ashtray's big love scene, rather than tender and romantic,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], becomes the funniest moment in the movie. Let's just say that it involves Kool Aid,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], hot dogs and hot sauce. At other times the filmmakers miss by a mile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], over-using cliches like malt liquor (in one case given to a baby in a bottle), or when an elderly woman is held up for her walker and in the beginning scene when two men are quickly shot dead in the street. The viewer may pause, aware that what is being parodied is film reality,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a hyper-reality that may not be true to life,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that may not,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in fact, be real. When you laugh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], what are you laughing at? The parody? The memory of the original film? What are the filmmakers laughing at? "Don't Be a Menace" constantly draws attention to the fact that it is a movie. It makes no effort to pull us into a fictional world or to draw our sympathy. At the beginning of the film, as Ashtray's mother takes him to live with his father,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she tells him she won't see him again because "You know there aren't any positive females in these movies." Later,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ashtray tells a little boy that both of them are part of an endangered species. "Why,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because we're black males?" the boy asks him.
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