2008-09-16, 01:14
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Hustle & Flow
Anyone seen this hit indie film by Craig Breywer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otn1YORTxDo&fmt=18  I just rented this movie 5 days ago. It's about DJay (Terrence Howard), an aspiring emcee from the Dirty South who is trying to make it in the hip-hop world, has to deal with many different types of people who try to bring him down, and all the things that try to keep a player down. This is probably his last chance to make it: he is approaching his 40s, and his life is looking downhill. If you read the description above, it's not your typical rags-to-riches story. I found the film well-made, entertaining, and even inspiring. I enjoyed the actual music-making sequences enormously, and liked the songs and the performances and the style of Brewer's direction. Some scenes are genuinely funny as well, particularly Ludacris' satirical take on self-involved Southern rappers  I still can't get enough of the Original Sound Track. I still listen to it even to this day 
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2008-09-16, 22:12
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Hustle & Flow was indie http://www.indiewire.com/people/peop...718hustle.html In the end, Paramount Classics/MTV Films acquired "Hustle & Flow" for $9 million. As for the best song song... for me it's Keep Hustlin' (It ain't over). It puts a human face on why DJay had to hustle even though he didn't like it, and the music gig was his ticket out of the unhealthy lifestyle he was leading... I thought the scene where they were making Whoop that trick was funny as hell... and I ended up chanting with that song
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