"Belly" 20 Years today

[glamorous]

Then you would have had a back and forth between two dudes having rough sex. I think it worked the way it played out. But you just wanted to live vicariously through T Boz

they would def have to spread it out throughout the movie so yea maybe 6 scenes is pushing it & I cant picture nas roughin it out in a sex scene , he seems tooooo cool maybe i could picture tboz rough riding him or some shyt maybe him going crazy from behind her or some shyt. i guess 4 scenes wouldve been cool & I've met nas once and it couldve went down from there lol. so hell no I used to block that bytch face out & picture me in the film playin his boo.

 

[Asicz]

Belly Oral History

 

[ManBearPig]

5.5/10 movie

 

[Asicz]

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[B. Pumpaveli]

receipts?

How much money you need to finish a script lol

It was in some retrospective, making of I read in a magazine.

I actually just now found this mtv article from 98 that also touches on it: DMX Talks About Hype Williams Film "Belly"

 

[UpAndComing]

I never watched this movie. I should be ashamed of myself

 

[Ol’Otis]

Cinematography was like a Kubrik

shout out to the man Malik Sayeed
he also did the cinematography for He Got Game

 

[OGBIGBOY187]

bytches wanna know why nas & tboz weak ass sex scene wasnt as fierce as x & keeesh.
maybe tboz wasnt with the shyt off the strength of mack 10 lol

I think it was done as a metaphor for both they personalities

Classic movie, the barber shop
shooting scene was crazy

I always give AZ the side eye in this scene, make it look like he was in on getting Nas lined up

 

[glamorous]

I think it was done as a metaphor for both they personalities



I always give AZ the side eye in this scene, make it look like he was in on getting Nas lined up

true didnt look at it like that & YESSSS , i didnt understand why he didnt at least give him a heads up. that scene was shady as hell. I dont know if AZ actually knew about them or was AZ tryna stay out nas bullshyt

 

[Stick Up Kid]

one of the most underrated hood flicks of all time.

DMX and Nas chemistry in this movie was classic.

so many classic scenes

 

[shawntitan]

Classic movie, the barber shop
shooting scene was crazy

Wasn’t this scene based on a robbery that happened to Nas in front of a barbershop?

 

[Dad]

Why do people keep saying this. Very untrue and devalues the film.


This film had a great performance by DMX was even heralded by Siskel or Ebert a the time (which ever one was alive)

Great Cinematography by Maleek Hassan Sayeed.

Great story.

I think if Hype Williams did this movie anonymously some people would value the film more and not write it off as merely a "hood flick".

What’s the movie about, cuz after 19 yrs I still don’t know

 

[BK The Great]

Wasn’t this scene based on a robbery that happened to Nas in front of a barbershop?

It might of been, I haven't watched this movie in quite some time. I might have to revisit it again.


Edit: is this the scene you talking about?

 

[Ziggiy]

I read they didn't have the money to finish the script so thats why it stops makin sense in the last part. But great movie anyway, one of the best movies of the 90s

just its overall style and tone is

The studio pulled funding at the last minute. They were actually supposed to shoot scenes with Nas and T-Boz in Africa.

 

[Ziggiy]

Wasn’t this scene based on a robbery that happened to Nas in front of a barbershop?

Yes