It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp
For all of you who fell asleep from my Inherit the Wind post, I’m following it up with some more lively movie news. Hopefully that title got your attention.
Terrence Howard was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for Hustle & Flow (warning: site plays music so if you’re at work, put on those headphones!). He did a great job in that movie. He was in pretty much every scene so he really had to carry it.
Also, the song “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” was nominated for Best Original Song. That was a really catchy song. I saw old white women bopping their heads to that in the theater. If that song wins, it will be the second rap song in recent years to win - the other being of course Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” in 2003.
When I went to see it, there were people guarding the door, taking cell phone cameras and patting you down. Besides being silly, I thought “how racist!!”. They weren’t doing that for any other movie. This was at the Little Theater, an independent film theater that has a predominantly white audience. This film was about a black pimp trying to make it as a rapper. But then I realized it was because it was a sneak preview of the movie so must be, nationwide where it was being shown, they were taking precautions like that. Because, you know, I could have sneaked out some high quality images from my dinky < 1 Megapixel cell phone. So I was relieved to find out that the Little hadn’t suddenly, inexplicably, become racist. Turns out the majority of the audience was white, and I was surprised at how many older people were there. I didn’t think it would appeal to that demographic.