Classes End at Two on Tuesdays
Last blog today. I swear. I didn’t want to read about media regulation anyway.
So apparently, this exists. Here’s the poster! And here’s a still:
Also, here are some excerpts from the moviefone website:
There was a time when Lazarus (SAMUEL L. JACKSON) played the blues; a time he got Bojo’s Juke Joint shakin’ back in the day….
The God-fearing, middle-aged black man quickly learns that the young white woman he’s nursing back to health is none other than the town tramp from the small Tennessee town where they live…Abused as a child and abandoned by her mother, Rae is used by just about every man in the phone book…
Refusing to know her in the biblical sense, Lazarus decides to cure Rae of her wicked ways – and vent some unresolved male vengeance of his own. He chains her to his radiator, justifying his unorthodox methods with quoted scripture… Unleashing Rae emotionally, Lazarus unchains his heart, finding love again in Angela (S. EPATHA MERKERSON). By saving Rae, he frees himself.
And the trailer, which you have to watch before we can proceed and which I’m having trouble embedding.
I don’t even know where to start with this movie, though I should probably figure it out before I write my thesis on it next year. Things that come to mind, just off the top of my head:
- No pants on Christina Ricci at any point
- The name Lazarus
- Yet another appearance by the ‘magical black man’! (I mean Eko was killed off on LOST, so…)
- “Everything is Hotter Down South” as the tagline
- The racial and sexual double entendres in the title
- Curing a woman of her sluttishness
- Chaining a woman against her will in your home
- The comedic holds in the trailer
- Moms cause sluttishness!
- That Christina Ricci still has not gained any weight
Shit, I can’t even do this today. I’m supposed to be napping, but now I’m not going to be able to sleep because this movie is so horrific and wonderful. Plus, I’m going to need the time to work “blackfemreligiousploitation” into popular vernacular.
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