This week is the 20 year anniversary of when Friday opened at movie theaters

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LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Well, technically it opened on April 26, 1995...but today is Friday! Gotta post the thread today. ;P

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Having started doing movies with Boyz n the Hood a few years beforehand, Ice Cube was encouraged by John Singleton to try writing a screenplay. The result was Friday.

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Friday would also be the breakout film for Chris Tucker.

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And of course, there was the incredible soundtrack to go along with the film.

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Ice Cube - Friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxhxPHN0wqM

Dr. Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axZrElyTmU8

And of course, 2 Live Crew and Hoochie Mama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMge9j5SYA

I now expect the thread to fill up with Friday related gifs.
 
Goddamn I'm really starting to feel old. 20 damn years. Jesus fucking christ. The original is still the best. Loved the others though without a doubt. Hell I like Ice Cube's movies in general.
 
"Older the berry, the sweeter the juice"

"Man, it's the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice "

"Yeah, well she blacker than a motherfucker too"
 
Watched this for the first time a few months ago, after seeing the GIFs here for such a long time. Awesome movie, just a classic comedy.
 
crimzonflame said:
You always know how to post the wrong things in a thread.
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Not at all. I worked at a video store at the time the latter two films came out. I just watched them on shift.

Every time I would find Friday on television...it was the television version, which I generally avoid unless I've seen something about a dozen times.
 
dallow_bg said:
Good article on the making of and historical impact of Friday.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kelleylcarter/after-20-years-friday-is-still-the-most-important-film-ever
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Hah, this is a pretty great passage, being recognised in South Africa by what looks like to be a homeless dude:

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Love says he was shooting another movie in 2001 on location in South Africa when he saw a guy craning his neck to get a good look at him. “We see this guy walking. He has little ratty-ass trousers on and no shoes and a stick. He’s beating a satchel. And he looked thirsty … and I was like, ‘Get him some water.’ And he looked at me, and he pointed, and he said, ‘Big Worm?’ And I said, ‘Oh, fuck no!’ Out of this bush, this no-having-shoes-motherfucker … he ain’t got no shoes! Where did he see this movie?”
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While it's a comedy, it was still socially conscious and didn't veer off being some fantasy, probably why it's still so resonant while being palatable for many people:

“The film demonstrated that black life was not all drugs, violence, dysfunction, and pathology — yet instead of offering a Cosby Show-like fantasy, Friday put these issues in context, finding humor in the everyday lives of regular black people,” he explains. “Since the 1970s, Hollywood has always looked favorably upon low-budget black films that produce high profit margins at the box office. Friday expanded the representation of the hood into the realm of comedy and achieved box office success at the same time.”
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Mr Jones' quotes about fighting with fists rather than a gun, that kind of code where it's better to live and fight another day than live and die by a gun just like that, while weird makes sense in such a neighbourhood where non-violence isn't as easy to live by.

Craig Jones: You know how it is 'round here...

Mr. Jones: Oh, no, son. That's not the way it is. You kids have been nothin' but punks. Sissified. So quick to pick up a gun. Too scared to take an ass-whipping.

[holds up his fists]

Mr. Jones: This is what makes you a man. When I was growing up, this was all the protection we needed. You win some, you lose some, but you live. You live to fight another day. Now you think you're a man with that gun in your hand, don't you?

Craig Jones: I'm a man without it!

Mr. Jones: Put the gun down.

[Craig complies]

Mr. Jones: C'mon, put up your dukes.

[Craig raises his fists]

Mr. Jones: NOW you're a man. Your uncle picked up a gun, too. He found out the hard way. 22 years old. You've got a choice. This is all you need, alright?​
 
dallow_bg said:
Good article on the making of and historical impact of Friday.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kelleylcarter/after-20-years-friday-is-still-the-most-important-film-ever
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Friday ultimately was a star-making role for Tucker — he later went on to co-star in a trilogy of Rush Hour films, which came with hefty paydays and grossed more than half a billion dollars domestically — and it’s a key reason why a long-awaited Friday sequel with all of the original actors coming back hasn’t happened yet. Next Friday and Friday After Next fared well but were missing were a lot of original characters that everyone fell in love with, namely Tucker.

“New Line won’t cut the check. So we’re in a holding pattern,” Cube says of the possible new Friday film, which he has written. “I’m depressed about it. Ain’t nobody going to be more pissed off than me. Because it’s ridiculous. It don’t make sense. I’ve got to do it with the company that the movie was released on. So until they come to their senses, we can’t be funny.”

Until then, fans will have to stick to wearing their DVDs out and tweeting favorite lines from the film as if it were released 20 days ago.
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Cube should Kickstarter that film, I'm sure he'd get more than enough funds.
 
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