Above the Rim (1994)

From blackwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Above the Rim (1994) is an American sports drama movies co-written and directed by Jeff Pollack in his directorial debut. The screenplay was written by Barry Michael Cooper,[2] adapted from a story by Benny Medina.[1]

Above the rim poster

Plot

Story of Kyle-Lee Watson, a promising high school basketball star, and his relationships with Birdie, a powerful drug dealer, and Birdie's brother, Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard, himself once a promising high school star at Kyle's school, now employed as a security guard.[2]

Controversy

The movie is extremely predictable cheesy and stereotypical, it is virtually racially profiling from the outset. The movies were popular and deemed fresh gritty realistic stories from the hood, showing the middle/rich classes life on the street and how blacks youths were badly treated. It also only tended to damage minority groups, giving young blacks a bad reputation[2]

Many scene that has much racial slur thrown by the same black people as seen on this dialogue :

Bugaloo: Yo, Kyle, tell this funny-looking nigga how long it took me to call you back after you beeped me.

Kyle-Lee: A couple of minutes.

Bugaloo: A couple of minutes, Mo. That's called good business. Prompt service. You know what I'm saying?

Motaw: Get the fuck out of my ear.

Bugaloo: Anyway, yo, Kyle, I told Birdie that you was in. Money was hyped. He had like an orgasm and shit. I think that nigger like winning more than money and twice as much as pussy and shit. Motherfucker jerk off to winning.

(Pollack, 1994)[3]


Bugaloo: Don't mind that nigger. He's just mad. He'll be sittin' the bench and you playing point and shit. He got his period and shit. I'll get you some pads. Mini or maxi, what you take? Tampons?

Motaw: Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something! First of all, I don't give a fuck what Birdie said. And I don't give a damn about this nigga in the back. I'll bury the both of you motherfuckers. Better start listening and stop playing. Hold up, pull over right here.

Kyle-Lee: I thought we're going to the spot?

Motaw: Nigga, I said pull over

Bugaloo: For what?

(Pollack, 1994)[3]

Reference