Stomp the Yard: Oedipus-Jesus-Shakespeare narratives

Woven into another flic, we see the same Romeo and Juliet story.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Stomp
• the
• Yard
• Oedipus
• Jesus
• Shakespeare
• narratives
• Christian
• fantasies

[bygINCpresents]

i thought the leader of the 7 times champ was a light skinned brah?... i did notice the color theme. i'm told if you want to depict beauty, film at sunrise or sunset. the director did that, maybe a bit too much. beautiful work though, but i, paradoxically, kept thinking it was artificial beauty... was nice seeing young, educated, beautiful black characters on camera though.

[diepiriye]

Loads of natural beauties just beneath the surface of the film. I enjoy it and have watched it once every few months.

[martaajoku1]

i completely agree i never

looked at it that way

[diepiriye]

Tons of movies are like this. And it's not that we don;t enjoy these films. But, I try to imagine what different kinds of films would look like. It seems like everyone is towing this load.

[diepiriye]

T.P. must be a great guy, but he hates the Negro woman. It probably means that he sees himself in her and hates that image, so he plays out that love/hate with these funny/crazy, ambitious/pathological, nurturing/psychotic sorts of women.

[diepiriye]

Yup. Thanks so much.

[regemo]

Very deep, loved it. You're discussing things that are like elephants in the middle of the room but yet we are sooooo conditioned to not see them. Great video.

[trini6roots]

I thought I was the only one who thought that. The characters that are crazy, or cheating on their spouses are usually women.

[diepiriye]

Plenty of Tyler Perry's flics are women hating!

[90browneyes09]

I think your thinking of Tyler Perry: Diary of a Mad Black Woman.