richardmurray

Question and answers before viewing
What did you think of this film when you saw it for the first time? How do you think this movie impacts the culture today?
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I remember when I saw this movie for the first time well for many reasons. I will convey that I saw this after New Jack City which came out in a similar time frame, and I disliked New Jack City and seeing this lifted my spirits. Now I admit, I am a music fan and so the music was nice for me. I liked the storytelling and acting. I saw this film in modern words as a musical fantasy. In the end it was a summing up of 1950s-1960s-1970s black musical bands in the usa historically,wrapped up in a mythical band that had all the problems, joys, and found itself in modernity alive and among friends or family. 

To modernity, I don't think Five Heartbeats impacts largely. It isn't a disliked movie in the black community. But, I paraphrase Macy Gray who spoke on Michael Jackson plus The Artist Formerly Known As Prince relating to the common Black folk, a growing segment of the financially common black folk from the 1980s onward saw and see themselves through interpretations of Black people in media that are baggy clothes wearing, warm around fires in cars in urban environments, gold chain wearing, acting in a violent street setting with illegal financial activity, whether any of it is true or not.To restate, said black folk can see themselves in the low level rapper more quickly than michael jackson. In parallel, New JAck City impacts today much larger than The Five Heartbeats in the financially common black community in the usa, in my opinion at least. 

Thoughts as I listened
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1:50 You have to find that after school special robert townsend filmed at your elementary school
3:36 oh mamma mia! yes, it wasn't so detailed laden, your daughter's point remind me of your thoughts to aretha franklin's biopic. I wonder if townsend didn't want to telenovela and maybe wanted to go more myth than drama.
6:27 Kacie Lemmons, thanks for shouting her out. 
8:25 Flash, I wonder who the dells or Townsend was thinking of its  with him
9:50 good shout out, I want someone to ask Shug Night, did he see the five heartbeats. If he says yes...:)
12:27 did Townsend think on Daughters of the Dust and the memory perception. What we are seeing is a memory, not the whole truth or a detailed account, but thoughts, a temporally. 
the end is out of the dream.
15:37 yes, the purest joke in the film, good one. 
16:47 Nike you and your daughter, like the daytime drama elements in biopics. 
I wonder when the film about Nike's life will occur, how many reveals will we get:)
19:33 good point, Five Heartbeats influenced later musical biopics. 
20:52 yes it is the Harlem Nights of Black Music films, more than coming to america, yes , well done by your daughter Nike