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When Blade Runner was released it wasn't well received. Some movies get a lukewarm reception than become Cult classics or midnight movies

Sweet Back was a runaway slave. That was Mo Better Blues. That was the movie Spike Lee wanted to do for Denzel Washington

Just throwing out the trash...talker

I should say that acquisition isn't just about purchasing goods. For instance you can acquire a new skill.

I don't think it is possible to compare films across time or cultures. So stories can't get better since they are a function of the time, place and power dynamics. Here are a few films that I think are really good films Star Wars The Matrix Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Sweet back badass song Superfly (The soundtrack is a perfect album) Hero Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Too Tired to Die (Jeffrey Wright is one of my favourite actors) 2046 (Almost any Wong Kar Wai film) Diva Any Luck Beeson film. Infernal Affairs ( Any film with Tony Leung) Who is the best actor you've seen in a Spike Lee film.

Pioneer it seems we are having an intelligent conversation ... without you.

I think that may be true for special effects and film technology but this is less relevant for scriptwriting. West Side Story = Romeo and Juliet = Pyramus and Thisbe. So you have a few centuries in between stories. But it still works.

How about a head that reflects all the colours of Blackness

I mention because it is a non mainstream Black Film. It's an independent so it's a bit quirky . It is worthwhile for you to watch. Less so for Pioneer

Is happiness related to your ability to acquire what you desire?

@Richardmurray I haven't seen Nope. I can't compare She's Gotta have it to Get Out. Peele's films don't break the fourth wall. Even though his films are somewhat SciFi/Horror, they still feel like you are watching the character's experience. I could be mistaken but there is no first person voice Spike's first three. Or it feels more like an ensemble than a lead actor You could argue that Lee had Blaxpoitation films as a genre. And Peele had Lee Snipes and Denzel. There is a little known film called Chameleon Street by Wendell Harris.

Man ain't nobody here your B*tch

That's an interesting request from someone who makes up his own definitions

A person's position and how they function in that position demonstrate intelligence. We assess a persons intelligence in a variety of ways. However intelligence has a cultural bias and in this conversation it has a personal one as well. There are advantages to appearing to be dumber than you are in actuality. Some try to appear smarter than they are this doesn't work as well.

I have been thinking about people's concepts of the way the world works. Maybe the ideas aren't true universally or perhaps there are unknown windows when and where they are true.

Glad to hear you're on the mend. What was the pecking order?

She was in Sparkle with Philip Michael Thomas

Ernest Dickerson's camera work for Spike Lee was amazing. The scene in Mo Better Blues had the camera rotating around the bed, was an innovation. For me the biggest difference is that Jordan Peele's films are more nuanced. Whereas with Spike Lee it's more in your face. Plus the settings for Peele tend to be more suburban even rural. I think the best Lee movie was Inside Man. My favourite was She's Gotta Have it. I went to the premiere of Summer of Sam.

When I said am albatross. I mean it so good that everything afterwards pales in comparison. Prince had that with Purple Rain and Michael Jackson had that with Thriller. Although I feel 1999 was a better album as was Off the Wall. If he just covers expenses he will have a harder time making films. Unless he has a commercial success.

Get Out could be Jordan Peele's albatross.

Get out had him picking cotton to save his life. I hadn't made that connection when, I saw the film. Also the house reminded me of a plantation. Even the way the help was dressed seemed more like slave clothing. However that could be a revisionist memory.

We never stop to think how technology is changing us. I think he mentioned the expectation of instant response is effecting us as well . I am paraphrasing.

Yes if I don't understand something how can I judge it's merits. It's like I thought the first Matrix was the best, until I heard the commentary track by Ken Wilber and Cornell West. The. I thought the second was better.

I watched US and I felt that I didn't really understand what he was trying to convey. People living in the shadows while on part is in the light. Interesting that the nexus was an amusement park.

Theodore Kaczynski was right about our relationship with technology. In addition it is probably shortening our attention span and ability to focus on one subject. It is most likely rewiring our brain and will result in neck and eye problems .