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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Yeah, I was skirting that matter, but honestly it makes the movie a bigger risk if I didn't grow up in the culture to understand the underpinnings of the humor.
But this makes me laugh, because I wonder if it's part of why I like Napoleon Dynamite so much when you're meh on it.
You grew up in a black culture, and I grew up in a rural yokel culture. That's what Napoleon Dynamite is built on, so I really identify with it. Maybe I'm off base if you also grew up in a yokel culture, but there'a a whole lot of Napoleon Dynamite that I recognize from my youth, so the humor really resonates with me.
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Funny you mention it, my mom is actually white as the driven snow from Smalltownville, OH (her high school graduating class had like 16 people) and my dad's from DC so I dabble in both cultures.
Napoleon Dynamite definitely gave me more rural Iowa vibes than rural Ohio vibes. Sounds like a small difference but I feel like there is something to be said there.
I'm going to shoot straight with you, the Friday franchise probably won't be up your alley, but I will stand by my claim that they're very entertaining comedies and maybe your life will be a wee bit enriched having stuck your toe in the culture lol
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
More or less so than 'Black Knight'?
My buddy and I went and saw that in the theater and man, that was an experience. My friend and I were just laughing our asses off at these poor classically trained Shakespearian actors with their over the top received pronunciation accents just being the butt of all these god-awful Martin Lawrence jokes.
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Ha- have you never seen any of the Fridays, DJ? I'm shocked. I thought you were like mid-to-late 30s, figured that one would have been in your catalog.
I haven't seen Black Knight in years so it's tough to remember all of it, but the entire cast of Friday is either black or Hispanic. Like, they literally don't even leave the neighborhood during the movie so I don't think a white person gets a single second of screen time in that movie. Whereas, Black Knight is kind of the opposite based on my memory. It's basically a black dude telling jokes around a bunch of 1500s white folk.. so I guess I'd have to imagine Friday leans a little more into the black humor..? Though I will say that Chris Tucker's humor definitely seems to be a bit more mainstream than Martin Lawrence's so maybe it's the opposite.