Ryan Coogler & Michael B. Jordan vampire film "Sinners"

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That's ALL our shyt, so why not?:manny:
It's honestly one of the things I most respect about Ryan Coogler.
This shyt a vampire movie, not no historical saga or documentary. So he took a part of the movie to pay homage to ALL of the shyt that came out of blues.
He did something different. Does it take you out of the moment? Yeah! Until you realize afterwards "yo, that was dope actually".
 

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Are you really surprised? Are there even enough qualified FBA actors to make a film like this? Delroy Lindo is Jamaican, he just happens to be the shyt.
Hell yeah there are qualified FBA actors who could've made the cast, but that's a convo for another thread. We're celebrating in here, Good Brother.
All of the actors in Sinners did their thing, no matter their lineage. Props to all of them.
 

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Yeah, adding the rock and hip hop elements was a bad move IMO. I understood what Coogler was going for, but it kind of took me out of it.
That was one of if not my favorite scene



Why people putting scenes in spoilers? Why TF would you be here if you didn't watch the movie yet :pachaha:



They should put a warning for the post credit scenes, half the people in the theater left before the mid credit bar scene. It was only me and two other people that saw the ending credit scene in the church.


How am I more attracted to her in the movie than I am here? 🤔

 
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I think race is reaching a point where gender is, in terms of certain people being unable to discuss it without heavily leaning on a set group of generic buzzwords of academic speak. Like how everything is "patriarchy" for instance.

Saying Remmick isn't racist is NOT saying he's a good guy. In many ways he is a force of nature-type villain. Something that used to be pretty common in fiction but has disappeared as writers focus more on humanizing antagonists. Which is why he kind of reminds me of The Judge in Blood Meridian, or Chigurh in No Country For Old Men. Coogler stated that he's been around for hundreds of years, which would explain why Remmick said that Christians killed his people. Christians purged and slaughtered Celtic/Irish pagans for many years. His history was erased and replaced, to the point where he felt that controlling the music was his only way to get his culture back.

This makes a lot more sense than the initial ham fisted attempts to turn this into a tale of using white privilege to exploit black people, or how the Irish (who at one point were treated like black people) eventually became black. That's not what it's about. But when that is the only frame of reference you have due to a decade of Twitter-based pseudo academic wankery of course that's what folks will grasp to.
Exactly. Not even that, Coogler had the whole movie to paint Remmik as racist but he choose not too. He could have even had him join up with the KKK. Its very clear that Remmick wasnt suppose to be a racist figure and his motivations are wholly different than “I want to fukk with the black folks”
 

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Exactly. Not even that, Coogler had the whole movie to paint Remmik as racist but he choose not too. He could have even had him join up with the KKK. Its very clear that Remmick wasnt suppose to be a racist figure and his motivations are wholly different than “I want to fukk with the black folks”
Why do you even have to explain that lol wtf
 

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Instead of y’all looking at it as white and black you slow mfs.. look at it as how powerful music is and has been forever .. whether it’s negro spirituals that literally got our ppls thru the toughest times or drill music of today that mfs literally kill to….
 

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The soundtrack/score for this movie is dope af. Lil breh that plays Sammie is extremely talented and imma follow his career now.

Coogler got another blassic for sure
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That Rod wave song for the soundtrack is tough and lowkey coincides with his IRL personality and how he treats the rap game.. so many ppl question how he could still be so “sad” when he’s rich as fukk and this movie shows at the end of the day money means nothing
 

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Another great article on the meaning behind why the vampire is Irish.

Why Is Remmick, the Master Vampire in 'Sinners,' Irish?

"Even after signing the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, Ireland didn’t become fully independent until 1937."

:patrice:


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