CHIRAQ trailer (spike lee joint)

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

It absolutely becomes glorification when the main point of fatalism is ignored and instead characters like O-Dogg are everyone's favorite and the internet is filled with gifs and memes of Caine teaching a kid how to hold a gun and O-Dogg shooting up a corner store.

You're so worried about flags and colors rather than the message just like Durk and Reese and the rest of these kids. You want authenticity head to world star

nikka if a movie claiming to be from the city i was born in, and where most of my family is from, then i want it to be accurate. Otherwise it defeats the purpose and i cant identify with it. Spike is that nikka, but he is fukkin tweakin with this shyt. The slang is wrong, the gangs are wrong, it doesnt in the least bit look deep, it's just satire, not my cup of tea and i def wont watch till it hits netflix.

You can get the fukk outta here too nikka cosigning this innaccurate shyt, fukk you mean

 

[Zero]

Chi-Raq, Spike Lee’s latest joint, is an update of Aristophanes’ anti-war comedy Lysistrata, otherwise known as the play where all the women of Athens stop having sex with their husbands in an effort to bring the devastating Peloponnesian War to an end. Set in the modern day south Chicago Urban war zone nicknamed Chi-Raq (as in “Iraq”) the story sees a group of women organize against the on-going violence after the murder of a child by a stray bullet, by withholding sexual access to the point that even strippers refuse to work. What follows challenges the nature of sex, race and violence in America and the world.

 

[mr x]

@B_Da_Mang89 That's fair. So if it were "anywhere USA," you'd have no issue?

 

[Kane]

It absolutely becomes glorification when the main point of fatalism is ignored and instead characters like O-Dogg are everyone's favorite and the internet is filled with gifs and memes of Caine teaching a kid how to hold a gun and O-Dogg shooting up a corner store.

You're so worried about flags and colors rather than the message just like Durk and Reese and the rest of these kids. You want authenticity head to world star

That's on Spike tho.

He's the one who named the movie Chiraq.

You can't name a movie after a city and get mad when people question your portrayal of that city. People expect a certain level of authenticity.

He could've named this movie anything else, or set it in Anyhood, USA and I guarantee it wouldn't be getting the backlash it's currently getting.

 

[The G.O.D II]

If this doesn't confirm Spike Lee is a fukking hack.........

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

@B_Da_Mang89 That's fair. So if it were "anywhere USA," you'd have no issue?

shyt if it's a made up city, sure.


I mean, dude made Clockers very authentic to 90s new york, and it was a great movie.

 

[A-Train]

That's on Spike tho.

He's the one who named the movie Chiraq.

If you're naming a movie Chiraq, especially when you consider the violent connotations that come with that word, then people will expect a certain level of authenticity and an accurate portrayal of the city.

He could've named this movie anything else, or set it in Anyhood, USA and I guarantee it wouldn't be getting the backlash it's currently getting.

Who said he was making an authentic film? Again, it is satire. You're right, the movie is named Chiraq....which is NOT the official name of the city. The nickname itself is satire.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Who said he was making an authentic film? Again, it is satire. You're right, the movie is named Chiraq....which is NOT the official name of the city. The nickname itself is satire.

Breh, Dont be a Menace was complete and utter satire and was waaay more authentic to LA than this is to Chicago

 

[The G.O.D II]

Got these nikkas hanging out of cars and busting autos like its city of god. Nick Cannon in a scene ripped out of 8 mile with synchronized dancing like some early 2000 ATL video. (Nick Cannon playing a tough guy period) Samuel Jackson in the don juan role. Was that 80 year Wesley Snipes looking like Big Boss with the 30? I understand its a remake of a greek play, but when you put Chi-raq in that title, that shyt may not mean much to you in NY or buttfukk Montana, but it does around here. Like others said, I originally thought he was doing a doc ala Micheal Moore which would highlight the deeper reasons why this city is in the state its in, from the corner to city hall. Then I saw over the summer LaLa and snoop from the wire were in this and it was fiction. So I at least thought ok and good hood story. And what the fukk is wrong with that? Boyz and Menace are great accurate portrayals of inner city life that didn't delve into idiocy(like Baby Boy) Since when are those movies bad? Cacs have movies like Godfather, Gangs of NY, etc and they are cinematic classics. But only are criminal element movies are labeled bad, by our own kin of all people. And at least portray my city right. Not a single scene, wardrobe choice, casting, dialogue resembled anything Chicago. Spike just wanted a hot buzz topic issue to base some weird liberal artsy nonsense. Guarantee he came up with this eating cheese cubes and wine with his columbia cac buddies

 

[re'up]

This looked embarrassing....I think Spike has gone more then a bit tone deaf over the years...Doesn't mean I won't see it, or it couldn't be good....but I would be surprised. If he didn't want to make a violent 'City Of God' type movie, I see no issue with that, but this....using an ugly and racially charged situation to do a Greek satire.....complete with really broad stereotypes and broad gender humor....dudes are gunning kids down on a weekly basis, elementary school age kids are getting shot in parks by shooters who aren't even out of middle school, gangs are moving heroin in the streets in mass amounts, generations and entire communities are being destroyed and Spike Lee wants to do satire? With Sam Jackson looking like the Capitol One commercial? And costumes and set design out of a 90's Wayans Bros parody? I am not from Tijuana, but I would be appalled (and was at 'Savages') at comedy being borne out of such ugliness...like a parody of drug violence and sex trafficking, based around an absurd premise like withholding sex will cease the violence.....

 

[A-Train]

Breh, Dont be a Menace was complete and utter satire and was waaay more authentic to LA than this is to Chicago

They shot the shyt on the north & south side, hired local actors and u still hurt over some colors

 

[The G.O.D II]

Its especially shytty because a 7 yr old got gunned down here (and its rumored he was specifically targeted because of relative was catching a lot of bodies) along with a model. But Nick Cannon going to mean mug and tisha cambell 2.0 going to march in the streets withholding p*ssy to stop the violence. FOH Spike

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

This has the feel of bamboozled

Spike got this shyt looking like school daze. This shyt looks like satire.

Good point

 

[Lootpack]

Meh.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

They shot the shyt on the north & south side, hired local actors and u still hurt over some colors

people barely bang on the northside like that breh, it's mostly cacs. Hispanic gangs up there used to be tho, but it died down. And obviously they didnt film in a rough south side spot, not one thing in that trailer was authentic cept for the architecture