I’m totally stealing it from Coppola’s The Godfather, with the great opening line, ‘I believe in America.'” And with that, you know you’re in for a ride on this commentary track, as Brewer will actually shed light on his film, not only the process of making it, but also its contexts and meanings, its references and allusions.
So I always try to begin each one of my movies with this line that kind of represents something. And I think that there’s two different kinds of creativity, there’s theft and then there’s inadvertent theft…. Wondering, ‘What if?’ You know what I mean?”īrewer performs his own bit of philosophy while watching DJay, admitting, “What I try to do is steal as much as I can. “One day,” he says, “But people like you and me, man, we always guessing. See, a dog don’t know shit about no birthdays, no Christmas or Easter bunny, none of that shit.”īy the time DJay finishes his discourse, the camera has pulled out from his lips to show his curl-pressed hair, his intent gaze, and his earnestness. Sniff a bitch when we can… But man, got him a sense a history, got religion.
And when I say ‘man,’ I’m talking about man as in mankind, not man as in men. Philosophizing even as he’s prepping her for the next trick, DJay speaks deliberately, like he’s thinking about each word as it slips from his lips. DJay (Terrence Howard) is leaned back in his Chevy Caprice Classic, his new white girl whore Nola (Taryn Manning) on the seat next to him. So, very early on, even before I started writing this movie, I always knew how I was gonna bookend it.” “And by the end of the movie, his journey ultimately gets him walking.
HUSTLE AND FLOW CAST DJ MOVIE
“I always knew that I wanted to begin this movie with somebody talking,” says writer-director Craig Brewer at the start of his commentary for Hustle & Flow. So it’s a good thing to let actors go through these scenes and come up with their own ideas because they might be better than yours and you just have to allow that to happen. You’ve got to just know the balls are gonna roll and you’ve gotta do the best you can to corral it. If you start stopping balls from rolling to let other ones go, you’re kinda breaking the flow. It’s like seeing pool balls go down a wooden plank. Really, you’re just wrangling - actors and time and budget. Craig Brewer, commentary, Hustle & Flow
I called up Isaac Hayes, who’s very intimidating, ’cause he’s Isaac Hayes, for god’s sake.
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