fett on 11/7/2010 at 00:15
What RBJ is trying to say is that he's down with the bruthas like an OG, dawg.
Rug Burn Junky on 11/7/2010 at 02:38
Quote Posted by Angel Dust
it's not his mannerisms themselves [...] but the combination of that [...] feels a little pulpy in the context of the rest of the show.
That's why I say it's a matter of perception. NOI is such a caricature in their own right that if you're not already familiar with them, anything with them is going to feel a little contrived, and I always felt that Simon captured that pretty authentically. Especially since they kind of subverted the cliched expectation of religious kill-joy a little bit, but still conveyed the same vibe.
Quote Posted by fett
What RBJ is trying to say is that he's down with the bruthas like an OG, dawg.
Werd.
Just kidding, these days if I'm at 125th street after sundown, something's usually gone very wrong.
Actually, the gym that I work out at, NYSC, has locations all over the city, and they're all pretty much exactly the same, except the music. The gym I usually go to, in Brooklyn, is all cheezy dance music from the late 90's: vengaboys, kylie minogue etc.
The location in the financial district near my office always played horrible 80's music.
But the location in Harlem at 125th? Killer fucking soundtrack. Wu-tang, Nas, sean paul, Buju. I used to love working out there.
Muzman on 11/7/2010 at 09:37
I've often thought Simon was probably trying to just excentuate New York being more established and sophisticated and just different than B'more (or at least thinking and acting like it) with Brother Mouzone. So he chose a sophisticated and fairly peculiar tangent of black culture to do it.
It's easy, particularly as a foreigner, to think that what we know as 'Urban' culture is pretty universal and representative of the afro-american...I dunno... experience. It's good to get the odd reminder that it's wayyy more complicated than that.
hopper on 11/7/2010 at 12:19
I also found that Brother Mouzone seemed out of place in that show, something like a comical relief, only without being funny. It wasn't just his style and mannerisms that did it, though. It was also the inflated level of awe and respect he seemed to garner that just didn't make him as realistic as the others. As a stand-in for the "Wolf" character in Pulp Fiction he'd have been perfect, but in this show he felt a bit... cartoonish.
fett on 11/7/2010 at 14:25
I'm with hopper. It needed the type of character Jonathan Banks brought to Breaking Bad ("Mike"). Much more believable, and far more scary IMO.
