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High budget can make it less hood. Would take a good director to keep it raw with the extra cash.
If a hood movie had a high budget 50-100 million
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Although not a traditional hood movie a lot of hood shyt went on in parts of it, Malcolm X cost over $30 mill to make.
For $50M+ I would want to see an 3 hr epic of the BPP. That really dug deep and told the real story.
For $50M+ I would want to see an 3 hr epic of the BPP. That really dug deep and told the real story.
BlackAchilles
Veteran
Give Tisha Campbell a prominent role 
That’s thinking too limited. If you’re getting that budget for an all black cast why not do a sci-fi movie? Or a western? Or an action adventure flick? Or a big budget horror flick? I know the coli doesn’t think this but not every black person is from the hood
NYSTATEOFMIND
Superstar
Dont cast Kevin Hart please
It already did, it was called American Gangster.
That’s a hood movie to you? I felt like that’s just a gangster flick in the same vein of most gangster flicks just with Black people. Just because we’re in it doesn’t make it a good movie
I mean, it's about a black gangster set in Harlem. 3 of the top 4 or 5 top billed in the cast are black. If it's not black enough because the director and screenwriter were white I get it. But American Gangster is damn near what you would get with a 100 million budget good flick. Top drawer lead, top drawer director, top drawer script, and not to mention a soundtrack by the one of the greatest rappers of all time.
FromStLouis
Superstar
A futuristic landscape and strong science fiction leanings.
Like what would a hood movie look like in the Blade Runner universe?
Like what would a hood movie look like in the Blade Runner universe?
I’m saying I wouldn’t call it a hood flick tho. So I guess that gets into what one considers a hood flick. Hoodlum is about bumpy Johnson and I don’t consider that a hood flick. Paid in full has a completely different aesthetic than American gangster even if their subject matter is similar. American gangster has more in common with godfather in presentation and theme
That's what I've been saying since the other threads about such things.
And even being from the hood, not every black person is about hood shyt.
The one great all-black western I've seen is The Cherokee Kid, and that was made for TV. Now, if that had managed to have a Mag Seven type budget, it would've been even better.
You should check out posse. I don’t think it’s great but it’s good. If you like Cherokee kid you’ll probably like posse a lot more.
But back to your point, yeah. We need to think bigger. I’m not from the hood and would never try to front like I am. I’d like to see a budget of that kind used to tell different stories. Not bigger versions of the same stories we’ve heard for years. Tell the story of a black astronaut or black spy or a black oceans 11 type movie. We pigeonhole ourselves
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
dont need a big budget to make a good hood film
and wtf is a hood film these days?
and wtf is a hood film these days?
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