Ramone Wagner
02/02/2022
Blog Assignment #4
This blog assignment, I shall highlight the masterpiece that was Tales from the Hood of 1995 and our profound guest appearance and presentation from the great director Randy Cunlife. We began the lecture that Tuesday, discussing the many parts and then themes throughout the movie. There was the Mortuary referred to as interstitial, the rogue cop revelation, Boys do get Bruised, KKK Comeuppance, and hard-core covert, all of which have social relevance often unpacking racism and white supremacy. The themes included police brutality and corruption, retribution, black complicity in racism, child abuse, community responsbility slavery crime and policital prejudices. Professor due as well as Mr. Cunlife do not hesitate to point out important and kind of statement imagery, cameos; such as Corbin Bernstein clinching to his american flag as kind of a message of white america hiding behind the flag with heinous ideas and racism, and the empowering art murals throughout the film, or the drawing folding imagery. She mentions how similar to Jordan Peele, Mr.Cunliffe had a comedy background/ beginning and makes a pondering connection of how natural of a transition comedy to hour. I thought that was pretty interesting, and perhaps even profound. Immediately what comes to my head is, the skill that is being able to capture and provoke certain emotions into an audience through comedy is where the envisioning translates in then knowing how to evoke reaction within horror as well. Randy Cunlife explains how Tales from the Hood came about and how he directed his first work Fear of A Balck Hat years prior, another outstanding film. He explains how he began as an actor and stand up comedian, in which he acted in works such as Hollywood Shuffle and School Daze from Spike Lee, which here he was inspired to write and then furthermore direct films for himself. Cunlife explains how Spike reached out after seeing Fear of a Black Hat and encouraged his efforts and insisted on them working together. Note to self, when at an industry event and someone asks you “What are you working on”, always have an answer, even if you need to fabricate…. Or exaggerate. Haha! This is keen if you ask me, fake it until you make it will take you a long way; I’ve seen first hand. He mentions how after Spike asks him to send over whatever he was working on and so he was forced to write something like 70 pages worth of storyline in like a week's time, so intense and relatable. The move he pitched, which would become Tales from the Hood, eventually ended up being produced by Spike after all, and his contribution is what solidified bringing the idea to life.
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