![]() ![]() Even for a confused guy, Anthony has a background that is incoherent.īut for long stretches in this two-hour film, the characters talk like parrots. Then, for reasons no more lucid than his desire to be different, he becomes a marine. He has a comic sidekick named Skip (Chris Tucker), given to lines like "Pimping runs in my family." In a scene of comic fumbling, Anthony gets his girlfriend pregnant. #DEAD PRESIDENTS DANNY ELFMAN COMPLETE DRIVER#A high school senior from a middle-class family that values education, he nonetheless finds himself the driver of a getaway car for a local mentor who runs a pool hall. Larenz Tate, who was the crazed, violent O-Dog in "Menace II Society," plays Anthony as smoothly as this scattershot script allows. as part of the New York Film Festival, and will open in New York theaters on Wednesday. "Dead Presidents" will be shown tomorrow night at 9 and Sunday afternoon at 1:30 P.M. Yet the film also highlights what they need to learn fast: everything to do with character and dialogue. They are experts at creating scenes of visceral, exciting action. With their cinematographer, Lisa Rinzler, they position the camera unobtrusively, for maximum effect. It offers a glaring example of what the Hugheses can do well. Ranging from 1968 to 1974, it concerns a young man named Anthony who goes from a black neighborhood in the Bronx to the Vietnam War and back again.Ī period piece, a war story, a coming-of-age tale and an indictment of a society that is brutal on black men and veterans, "Dead Presidents" takes on much more than it can handle. Two years ago, Albert and Allen Hughes, twins who are now all of 24, directed their startling, sharp-eyed tale of street violence, "Menace II Society." Though the title "Dead Presidents" is slang for the dollars in a climactic robbery scheme, the story is far broader than that. Education: Studied English at Michigan State University, 1977–79.There is a reason the terms "sophomoric" and "sophomore slump" are so common there is a lot of truth in them, as "Dead Presidents," the ambitious but naive second film by the wildly talented Hughes brothers, suggests. Born: 23 October 1959, Franklin, Michigan. Thomas Alexander Browne (1826-1915), who wrote under the pen name of Rolf Boldrewood, was born in England but moved to Austra… Sam Raimi, Nationality: American. Bu… Thomas Alexander Browne, Thomas Alexander Browne The Grateful Dead is one of only a handful of rock bands that have been going at it for nearly two and a half decades. Source… The Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead 1940-įull name, George Andrew Romero born February 4, 1940, in Bronx, NY father, a commercial a… James Brown, James Brown 1951– ∎ having or displaying no emotion, sympathy, or sensiti… George A. ∎ (of a part of the body) having lost sensation numb. Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodriguez, N'Bushe Wright, Bokeem Woodbine, Rose Jackson, Clifton Powell, Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones D: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes W: Michael Henry Brown C: Lisa Rinzler M: Danny Elfman. Pounding period soundtrack with contributions by Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, and Marvin Gaye keeps things humming. But the script, based on a story by the brothers, fails to live up to the vision, with characterization and dialogue lagging. Supported by hard-edged and effective acting, the Hughes continue to develop their control of cinematic imagery, displaying genius for staging violent, confrontational scenes. ![]() Desperate to escape, he becomes involved in an armoured car heist to grab some cash (the “dead presidents”). Combination coming of age tale, war story, period piece and caper film follows Anthony (“Menace” veteran Tate) from his Bronx neighborhood in 1968 to Vietnam (for “Platoon” adventures in the wilds of Florida) and then back to the 'hood, where his life continues to spiral downward. Sophomore release for the Hughes brothers falls short of impact of “Menace II Society,” but not for lack of ambition. ![]()
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