Sixteen years ago I went to the theater with my friend to see Freeman's film Wes Craven The People under the stairs. Unbeknownst to either of us, the people under the stairs was no longer to play, and the option to display only open for us, it was a movie that none of us had probably seen in other circumstances - Strictly Business. But we were in the mood to watch a movie - and everyone knows what the feeling is like - so we decided to take a chance and see a romantic comedy, when what we really wanted to see was a thriller that was a thinly disguised metaphor of the Reagan era.
Originally published in 1991, is strictly business came during the height of what was then considered a new revival of film noir. Spike Lee, fairly launched this new wave of cinema with his 1986 film, it Gotta Have It. Over the next five years there would be a steady stream of films that included several films over Lee (among them his 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing) and Robert Townsend Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Keenan Ivory Wayans' I Git You Sucka is (1988), Wendell Harris brilliant (and overlooked) Chameleon Street (1989), and the Hudlin Brothers' House Party (1990). But it was 1991 that saw a massive influx of film noir, which New Jack City, Hood John Singleton's Boyz N ', straight out of Brooklyn, and Jungle Fever Lee.
Among the graduates of 1991, Strictly Business, a comedy correct-but-not-great romantic who could just as easily passed in the dark if it were not for appearances by several actors who went to great prominence in the coming years.
Joseph C. Williams, star Wayman Tinsdale III, Hotshot real estate company is rapidly becoming an effective partner in the company where he works. Bobby Johnson (Tommy Davidson) is a mailroom clerk in a society that humble Wayman believes to be a good friend, even if the person is still Brotha hooks with the position of mediator training program. During lunch at one of its leaders, Wayman points Natalie (Halle Berry), and like any heterosexual man would do, you open a massive filter on the Fine Young Lass. The problem is that Wayman is most intense black man has ever walked the planet. And it's running joke in the film - Wayman does not work, or talk like a black man, who lived with his sounds develop and implement a self-dignity, and that is considered funny.
Wayman When Johnny finds out that Natalie knows, convinced the employee to mail the introduction, in exchange for Wayman and take professional Johnny under his wing. This leads to more "comedy" as Wayman stores for a hip new place again, and then try to talk to some black people in a nightclub. Oh, yes, before you can actually take the time with Natalie, Wayman has to get rid of his girlfriend even more tense (Anne-Marie Johnson). Finally, Natalie Wayman and connect to the installation type that is found only in predictable romantic comedies. All this happens while you are about to close the biggest deal of his career. However, a jealous, not to mention a little racist friend has other plans, and throws a wrench in the machine of our hero. This leads to an absurdity more than likely come as a surprise to people who have never seen the movies (or television) before. Otherwise, we know where all this before you arrive.
With respect to mediocre films, Strictly Business is not so bad. The script is a patchwork of recycled clichés and predictability, and the direction of Kevin Hooks "betrays no inclination for any comic moment, and yet the film manages to keep failing. Part of what makes the work the film is the chemistry of Williams and Davidson, that comes through, despite the script and direction. Williams remained ever a movie star, Davidson or for that matter, but the two manage to work a little magic what they did. Halle Berry looks great, but their participation is a little easier-on-the-eye plot to propel history forward.
Natalie Berry's character, but offers a nice piece of eye-candy, which is ultimately the only business actually goes wrong. Relationship between Natalie and Wayman is nothing but a poorly developed subplot that distracts from the real story, which is twinned Wayman and Johnny. More than anything, their friendship is what the film says, but somewhere along the way, someone decided that what is needed for the business was merely tired, sentimental love story, without any real content or value. It is not to say, the film would have been better if he had done the opposite, but it was probably more memorable and, perhaps, intellectually stimulating.
Originally published in 1991, is strictly business came during the height of what was then considered a new revival of film noir. Spike Lee, fairly launched this new wave of cinema with his 1986 film, it Gotta Have It. Over the next five years there would be a steady stream of films that included several films over Lee (among them his 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing) and Robert Townsend Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Keenan Ivory Wayans' I Git You Sucka is (1988), Wendell Harris brilliant (and overlooked) Chameleon Street (1989), and the Hudlin Brothers' House Party (1990). But it was 1991 that saw a massive influx of film noir, which New Jack City, Hood John Singleton's Boyz N ', straight out of Brooklyn, and Jungle Fever Lee.
Among the graduates of 1991, Strictly Business, a comedy correct-but-not-great romantic who could just as easily passed in the dark if it were not for appearances by several actors who went to great prominence in the coming years.
Joseph C. Williams, star Wayman Tinsdale III, Hotshot real estate company is rapidly becoming an effective partner in the company where he works. Bobby Johnson (Tommy Davidson) is a mailroom clerk in a society that humble Wayman believes to be a good friend, even if the person is still Brotha hooks with the position of mediator training program. During lunch at one of its leaders, Wayman points Natalie (Halle Berry), and like any heterosexual man would do, you open a massive filter on the Fine Young Lass. The problem is that Wayman is most intense black man has ever walked the planet. And it's running joke in the film - Wayman does not work, or talk like a black man, who lived with his sounds develop and implement a self-dignity, and that is considered funny.
Wayman When Johnny finds out that Natalie knows, convinced the employee to mail the introduction, in exchange for Wayman and take professional Johnny under his wing. This leads to more "comedy" as Wayman stores for a hip new place again, and then try to talk to some black people in a nightclub. Oh, yes, before you can actually take the time with Natalie, Wayman has to get rid of his girlfriend even more tense (Anne-Marie Johnson). Finally, Natalie Wayman and connect to the installation type that is found only in predictable romantic comedies. All this happens while you are about to close the biggest deal of his career. However, a jealous, not to mention a little racist friend has other plans, and throws a wrench in the machine of our hero. This leads to an absurdity more than likely come as a surprise to people who have never seen the movies (or television) before. Otherwise, we know where all this before you arrive.
With respect to mediocre films, Strictly Business is not so bad. The script is a patchwork of recycled clichés and predictability, and the direction of Kevin Hooks "betrays no inclination for any comic moment, and yet the film manages to keep failing. Part of what makes the work the film is the chemistry of Williams and Davidson, that comes through, despite the script and direction. Williams remained ever a movie star, Davidson or for that matter, but the two manage to work a little magic what they did. Halle Berry looks great, but their participation is a little easier-on-the-eye plot to propel history forward.
Natalie Berry's character, but offers a nice piece of eye-candy, which is ultimately the only business actually goes wrong. Relationship between Natalie and Wayman is nothing but a poorly developed subplot that distracts from the real story, which is twinned Wayman and Johnny. More than anything, their friendship is what the film says, but somewhere along the way, someone decided that what is needed for the business was merely tired, sentimental love story, without any real content or value. It is not to say, the film would have been better if he had done the opposite, but it was probably more memorable and, perhaps, intellectually stimulating.
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