Unlike 8 Mile, the spirit of Djay's rap isn't in humiliating another artist and calling it a victory. What Brewer does with Hustle & Flow is break down the process of creating and recording rap. Henson), "I just got my feeling like this is it for me." He decides he want to get back to this feeling, and music is the means. The scene is perhaps the movie's most memorable after all of his posturing, he's not made of stone. So taken by the soloist's voice, the emotional swing pushes a tear from Djay's eye. Key invites Djay to his current gig, recording a choir performance at a nearby church.
It turns out that Key is a sound recordist, ekeing out a meager living putting city council meetings on tape. In spite of this, he sees a light on his horizon after a chance meeting with an old schoolyard buddy, Key (Anthony Anderson), who is buying batteries at a convenience store. Hair greased and curled, eyes glazed from coke, he sits in his Buick pontificating to his prized prostitute Nola (Taryn Manning) with the worldliness of a man ruined by indulgence and daily survival. If someone desperately needed to get in the zone, it's Djay (Terrence Howard), a hard-living Memphis pimp. The music may be discordant and the rap may be straight-up nasty, but the main thing about crunk is that it's a state of being. That said, the mode for staying in the zone is "crunk" - a rap style with a repetitive lyric and baseline. To flow is the goal - being lost in the lyrics and the music it's the zone, the place you want to live. In other words, you write it, record it and put it out on the street (hopefully arriving at a radio station or record label's doorstep). To hustle (relatively defined) is to work your music to the listener's ear. The movie's title boils the life of a rap artist down to two words: hustle and flow. But that’s not the story they wanted to tell.Director Craig Brewer's Hustle & Flow sticks a needle into rap's hardened veins - not to merely examine its blood, but to live there, swim around in it, and capture its essence.
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Spielberg and the screenwriter David Koepp could have easily made Cruise a scientist or tooled the movie to revolve around the military-as in the ridiculous Independence Day and the 1953 War of the Worlds. Spielberg made a choice: Apart from the memorable grenade/alien-sphincter scene (the psychosexual implications of which are daunting), its hero does not even think of engaging the enemy. They act instinctually and blindly in the manner of Tom Cruise’s character. In some ways, his grueling journey is comparable to that of the subjects of the heartbreaking new documentary March of the Penguins: They walk hundreds of miles back and forth in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees below zero to keep their eggs warm and feed their babies. War of the Worlds begins with a protagonist who is emotionally isolated and estranged from his children, and it focuses on his primal urge to protect them from the horror of an alien invasion.
Later, Shug tells DJay, tearfully, that making that recording (“Y’know it’s hard out there for a pimp … “) has made her life worthwhile. She gives him a great performance without even having to be whooped very hard. Henson), has a gorgeous voice and-being in her last trimester of pregnancy-isn’t generating any income.
DJay needs a female vocalist, and, as luck would have it, his main lady, Shug (Taraji P. Another song begins with a plaint about rent hassles when his hookers aren’t bringing in enough cash. He even has a good subject for his songs: how “it’s hard out there for a pimp.” One number is called “Whoop That Trick”-he settles on the title after rejecting “Beat That Bitch” and one or two other possibilities for being less refined. The pimp stuff is his hustle, but the music is his flow. The indie sensation Hustle & Flow (Paramount Classics), written and directed by Craig Brewer, tells the gritty yet uplifting story of an abusive Memphis pimp, DJay (Terrence Howard), who has a mid-life crisis and decides to turn himself around by realizing his long-buried dream of making music.
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