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| Doctor Magnus Warlock | Aug 17 2015, 12:48 PM Post #2551 |
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It was Priest that revitalized the character. Most of the modern interpretations of BP came from Priest. Priest stayed true to the original intent Stan Lee & Jack Kirby envisioned for the first black hero, and expanded upon it. |
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| Doctor Magnus Warlock | Aug 17 2015, 12:50 PM Post #2552 |
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I am hearing nothing but great things from the upcoming cinematic debut of Black Panther in the Captain America: Civil War. Marvel has kept the trailer under wraps. I will post it here as soon as it is available for public viewing. |
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| Moon Pie | Aug 20 2015, 12:47 PM Post #2553 |
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Report: Dr. Dre's Fight with Journalist Was Cut from "Straight Outta Compton" Script http://abcnewsradioonline.com/entertainment-news/report-dr-dres-fight-with-journalist-was-cut-from-straight-o.html (LOS ANGELES) -- Hip-hop journalist Dee Barnes has criticized the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton for omitting any mention of Dr. Dre's 1991 altercation with her. Dre pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery in the incident and later settled a civil suit brought by Barnes. But it turns out that the infamous incident was in the movie's original script. The Los Angeles Times reports that Jonathan Herman's original screenplay include the scene. Quoting from the screenplay, the paper describes a scene in which Dre, "eyes glazed, drunk, with an edge of nastiness, contempt," confronts Barnes verbally. Things escalate to the point where he begins “flinging her around like a rag-doll, while she screams, cries, begs for him to stop.” According to the paper, the original script was 150 pages and the film's original cut was three and a half hours long, and the scene involving the attack on Barnes was just one of several that were excised from the finished picture. Other scenes that didn't make the film were ones in which Dre is shot four times in the leg, another where his house catches fire during a party and a flashback of his younger brother's death in a fight. On Tuesday Gawker published a long piece in which Barnes recalled the attack and criticized the film for its omission saying, "I didn't want to see a depiction of me getting beat up," but calling the film a work of "revisionist history." |
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| Moon Pie | Aug 21 2015, 10:49 AM Post #2554 |
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That's too bad! I'd like to see them together! Ice Cube Denies He's in Talks to Star with Son in Movie Thriller http://abcnewsradioonline.com/entertainment-news/ice-cube-denies-hes-in-talks-to-star-with-son-in-movie-thril.html (LOS ANGELES) -- Ice Cube says there's no truth to a report that he and his son, Straight Outta Compton star O'Shea Jackson Jr., will work together on a thriller revolving around the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The rapper's publicist told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement, "Ice Cube and O'Shea Jackson Jr. have no plans to commit to this project at this time. Any speculations or rumors that suggest that they are confirmed are simply untrue." However, the trade paper insists talks are underway for Cube and Jackson to star in April 29, 1992. Cube would play an ex-criminal who must save his son when thugs raid his place of work in an attempt to steal platinum. Jackson plays his dad in Straight Outta Compton, the reigning box office champ. |
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| Doctor Magnus Warlock | Aug 21 2015, 05:18 PM Post #2555 |
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I love this!
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/08/real-life-superboy-4-year-old-kal-el-helps-save-family-from-crash/ |
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| Doctor Magnus Warlock | Aug 21 2015, 05:21 PM Post #2556 |
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I hope Alfre is not Black Mariah.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/alfre-woodard-joins-marvels-luke-cage-netflix-series |
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| Doctor Magnus Warlock | Aug 23 2015, 10:47 AM Post #2557 |
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I may have to check this one out. I love the Green Lantern joke. Here is the footage that got this thing rolling. |
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| Moon Pie | Aug 25 2015, 03:19 PM Post #2558 |
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Such a sweet story! |
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| Moon Pie | Aug 25 2015, 03:21 PM Post #2559 |
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Straight Outta Compton: Director F Gary Gray on why he took the side of Dr Dre and Ice Cube over Suge Knight and Jerry Heller http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/straight-outta-compton-director-f-gary-gray-on-why-he-took-the-side-of-dr-dre-and-ice-cube-over-suge-knight-and-jerry-heller-10468108.html Straight Outta Compton was one of the albums that changed hip hop. Until its release in 1988, the syncopated Afro-centric sounds were largely the preserve of New York rappers, propagating social change and lambasting injustice. Then along came NWA, an abbreviation of Niggaz wit’ Attitude, a group of black youths from Compton in Los Angeles, whose debut album, replete with angry violence and misogynistic lyrics, gave rise to gangsta rap and the birth of the so-called West Coast hip hop. The group gained notoriety worldwide when their hit song “Fuck tha Police” was banned by radio stations across America, and they were ordered not to play the track at concerts for fear of inciting violence. The FBI wrote to the group, condemning the song for misrepresenting the police force and encouraging violence. The song criticised the heavy-handed treatment of youths by the police force and racial profiling and included a violent call to action. They saw themselves as rap realists, reporting what was happening on the streets. The most influential song on the album, “Gangsta Gangsta”, contains lyrics that could have come out of a blaxploitation movie, “Life ain’t nothing but bitches and money. Cause I’m the type o’ nigga that built ta last, because if ya fuck wit me, I’ll put a foot in ya ass.” Beyond the lyrics, the song showcased the abilities of two men who would come to dominate the genre: the rapping ability of Ice Cube, born O’Shea Jackson, and the producing mastery of Dr Dre (Andre Romelle Young). Dre would go on to produce albums by Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar, but already his preference for synthesised slow heavy beats was in evidence on an album often ranked on the greatest of all-time lists. The lyrics have a confrontational approach that harks back to the Black Panthers, yet are devoid of the historical context found in the music of Public Enemy. Indeed, there is a humour and irony that is reminiscent of the big rap band of the era, Run DMC. They saw what they were doing as street reportage, a rap realism, with the swearing lending a freshness. The genius of the album comes from the fact that these gruesome lyrics were rapped jazz, P-funk and romantic soul samples, from artists as diverse as Martha Reeves and Marvin Gaye. The sampling is the beauty to the lyrics beast. The music on the album is mostly upbeat, most in evidence on “Express Yourself”, a rap about self-expression over Charles Wright and the 103rd Street Rhythm Band. Some of the later tracks give a hint of the parody that would come to define NWA’s later albums. Ice Cube’s finest moment comes on “I Ain’t the 1” where he is given the solo spotlight to confront materialistic women. F Gary Gray’s film Straight Outta Compton tells the story of the rise and fall of the band. It starts with the dream of drug dealer Eric Lynn Wright to establish himself as record label owner Eazy-E. He formed Ruthless Records with businessman Jerry Heller. His partnership with Dre came about after he bailed Dre out of jail for failing to pay speeding fines, and in return Dre produced for him. NWA was soon born. Over the course of the next decade, there was success, tragedy, infighting, a brute in the guise of Suge Knight, the notorious figure who created Death Row Records with Dre, after he quit NWA. The film ends with the death of Eazy-E, who contracted Aids when the band slept their way across America. It’s hard to imagine a director more suited to the job than F Gary Gray. He began his career making music videos. On his first directing job, working on WC and the Maad Circle’s “Dress Code” video, he met Ice Cube. Soon after Gray directed the video for Ice Cube’s smash hit “It Was a Good Day”. In 1995, at the age of 24, Gray, who grew up in South Central LA, directed the hit Friday, written by and starring Ice Cube about a day in the life of drug-dealing slackers. “Being so close to the story made it harder and easier,” says Gray, who went on to make Set it Off and Be Cool. “It was easier because I knew a lot of the details. I grew up in the environment and I witnessed some of the things that NWA rapped about, so it made it easier to connect to the heart of the music. It made it harder because I want to get it right.” Where he excels is showing the police brutality and institutional racism. The Rodney King beating and riots are central to the picture. Police brutality on blacks has recently resurfaced with the Ferguson, Missouri shooting. “We didn’t try to tap into what is going on today, these things have been going on for a long time, we just told the truth about what it was like in the Eighties and Nineties, it just happened to coincide with the headlines today,” Gray says. But Gray feels that change is going to come. “I’m optimistic that a lot of things will change, how can they not? There is a lot of pressure on our leaders to change the culture.” Read more: Will Straight Outta Compton 2 follow NWA biopic? Straight Outta Compton left out Dr. Dre’s abuse against women Cinemas want extra security for Straight Outta Compton screenings The film sides with Ice Cube as he condemns Heller for trying to rip him off. He left the band after their infamous world tour, during which they were arrested in Detroit after they played “Fuck tha Police”, despite being banned from doing so. Yet Gray is adamant that their friendship didn’t affect how he told the story. “No not at all. He brought me the script to the film, which was fairly developed when I joined the movie,” says the director, who was due to make a Captain America sequel for Marvel. “I worked hard to pull in as much of the Dre story and the other characters as I could but with two-and-a-half hours you can only do so much with a story that spans 10 years, with five guys.” Gray chose a group of largely unknown actors. Indeed, the only face you’re likely to recognise is Sideways star Paul Giamatti, who plays Heller. Corey Hawkins gives a star-making turn as Dr Dre, but the standout casting was the decision to get O’Shea Jackson Jr to play his dad, Ice Cube. “I was a little afraid when he was introduced as an option, because you can’t just put a novice in that role,” says Gray. “Ice Cube is a very specific, charismatic artist and the average actor with experience would have had a hard time. When he was introduced I was a little taken aback and a little cautious but it took him two years to get the role, taking acting classes and callbacks and things like that. He really worked hard for the role. I want to dispel any rumours about nepotism because I would never put the film in jeopardy and, selfishly, I would not put my career in jeopardy by hiring his son as a favour to a friend.” Mention NWA and controversy doesn’t seem far away. Knight, who isn’t happy with his depiction in the film, is currently facing a murder charge. He allegedly ran over and killed a man and injured another in the car park of a restaurant, where discussions were said to be taking place about throwing him off the set. The dead man’s widow has filed a lawsuit, claiming that Dre and Cube are also liable for the death of her husband. Gray says of Knight: “I don’t have a relationship with him.” And of his depictions of Knight and Heller as the villains of the piece: “I just took first-hand accounts from people who dealt with all the characters. Jerry or Suge or whoever, I read books and watched videos, I feel good about the information that I received and what is put in the movie.” The involvement of NWA in the film was significant, “Dre was there every day on set,” says Gray. “Cube was hands-on in the development process and in post-production, so they were very close to the process of making the movie.” Dre has the most to lose out of the band members. Not only did he become the biggest superstar, he also founded the Beats Electronics, a headphone and music business, which was recently sold to Apple for $3 billion (£1.91bn). After the US release of the film, two women, journalist Dee Barnes and Dre’s ex-girlfriend Michel’le Toussaint, claimed Dre beat them. The musician told Rolling Stone magazine, “I made some fucking horrible mistakes in my life. I was young, fucking stupid. I would say all the allegations aren’t true – some of them are. But I paid for those mistakes and there is no way in hell that I will ever make another mistake like that again.” Dee Barnes has also said she’s glad her beating wasn’t depicted in the film. Gray avoids talking directly about the allegations, but says: “When I developed the script I could see there could have been five different movies. There were a lot of good times and bad times, and it really depends on the point of view you take. I chose based on the information that I gathered in the process of development.” What he does show is Dre being beaten by his mother. “It’s a scene where she is feeling disrespected and I wanted it in the movie because it’s real. It’s what motivated him to do what he’s doing today. It’s probably one of the best things that could have happened to him, to wake him up and set him in the right direction.” ‘Straight Outta Compton’ is released on 28 August |
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| Moon Pie | Aug 25 2015, 03:27 PM Post #2560 |
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I look forward to it! |
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