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[RekeRig]

And this movie is a modern day adaptation of Aristophanes's Greek Comedy 'Lysistrata'.

There's supposed to be a balance of tragedy & comedy in this. They are interconnected genres. The women are going on a sex strike to end war. It's funny because this makes the men want to get their shit together.

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Some stuff belongs on stage and not in film, I'm sorry

Everything doesn't translate

[RekeRig]

Jennifer looks like she's SLAYING THO

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i need another trailer mess or something. And Angela is hit or miss for me as well tbh

I got nothing from Angela here

The thing that irks me the most is this trailer gives me a cheaper Stomp the yard/school daze/Dear White people mess


I just feel like with what's going on in chicago the story could come off way more compelling

OMG I was thinking the same thing!

They sorta dropped the ball

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[FUCK Bey]

Jennifer looks like she's SLAYING THO

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i need another trailer mess or something. And Angela is hit or miss for me as well tbh

I got nothing from Angela here

The thing that irks me the most is this trailer gives me a cheaper Stomp the yard/school daze/Dear White people mess


I just feel like with what's going on in chicago the story could come off way more compelling

OMG I was thinking the same thing!

sdddddddd yea....

Im just not feeling it.

[FINE.]

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[FUCK Bey]

Oh..doesn't translate. You haven't even seen the movie! stfu

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We said what we said. We're not here for it. Nothing personal.

[rosone1]

Looks interesting.Seems like Spike went back to his 80s early 90s root with this.

[Bentley!]

This don't look good to me.

[iman]

Looks tacky.

[Zankou.]

watched it again.

this'll be something I get on redbox when everything is sold out

[Miranda]

It seems a bit to happy go lucky for me.

[Plank]

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this looks bloody awful

[iman]

like what in the Dear White People fuck. This shit is trash.

[CarseyWerner]

Seems like people expect a glorification of the violence and murder. Were you guys expecting a Menace II Society mess owt from Spike Lee?

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[CarseyWerner]

An interview from Spike

Well, can you lift your own gag order just a little? Is it a musical?
[Grins coyly.] Music is an integral part of every film I make. I would not classify it as a musical, though.

Spoken word?
Yeah, a lot of it.

And Lysistrata?
Are you familiar with the play?

Yes. It seems kind of a quirky conceit for such a serious subject.
Well, this play was written by the Greek playwright Aristophanes, 411 B.C. The lead character was tired of the war between the Trojans [actually, the Athenians] and the Spartans. So she came up with this amazing idea: We could make our men put down their spears, their knives, whatever, if we get all the women together and withhold sex, have a sex strike.

Kevin Willmott?he?s the cowriter?he wrote that version of the script six years ago. We tried to get it done, couldn?t. So we put it down. And then when there was this upsurge of Trayvon [Martin], Mike Brown, Eric Garner?you could go on forever?I said, ?Kevin, you still have that script? We should rewrite it together. We?ll keep the premise, Lysistrata, but move it to Chicago, today, South Side.?

So how do you answer those who question the use of an ancient sex farce to tell such a deeply painful, deeply serious story as gun violence?
That?s why we couldn?t get it done at first. People didn?t get it. When we went to Sundance, everybody said no but Amazon. And we had to have two readings for Amazon. They had to hear the words, not read it, and that?s when we got the green light.

But what about the tone?
It is possible to address a very serious subject matter and still have humor. I?ve done it before. Do the Right Thing was serious as hell. It was so serious you can still show that film today?it?s still contemporary. But Do the Right Thing was also funny as a motherfucker. Another example?one of my favorite films, one of my favorite filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove. What?s more serious than the planet?s destruction? But that movie was hilarious. There are many examples?music, plays, novels, movies?where humor has been injected into very serious subject matter.

So people need to relax. They need to stop thinking I?m gonna make light of the loss of life. Please. Calm down. Father Pfleger would have kicked me. He would have damned me to hell a long time ago. C?mon, that?s not who I am. Why would I do that?