This little bit of dialogue ends up with some kind of heavy breathing contest, and Tricky saying, "Honey, don't you know I'll sa-lap the waves out yo' head" and C. Tracy looking fake flustered, in the movie Under the Cherry Moon.

But I don't get it. I have watched that movie I don't know how many times, but I just don't get it.

Does anyone know what that's supposed to mean?

They're just playing around being silly

...This movie is best enjoyed when you don't read too deeply into it

Just from memory... I think it had something to do with them being brothers?

thekidsgirl said:

This movie made me take up illiteracy.
I don't even know what I'm postinmg right now.
I'm puunching at the keys & hoping for the best.

Illustrator said:

omg

Illustrator said:

x 1000...

TANKAEFC said:

I thimk it was joking. C. Tracy said that if he got arrested, Tricky would pull him intot he mix claiming they werre related. C. Tracy pointed out that it was impossible because he was small and yellow--like a butterscotch candy--and that Tricky was big and brown, like a chocolate bar.

The Tricky threatened to slap him.

I think they were both hot in that movie. I personally love Tricky's line:

"It's a full moon and I'm a werewolf, Bitch! Kiss my ass!"

Skin tone... "My brother?"

yeah, okay, but why couldn't they have been a little more clear, or at least let us in on the inside joke, which is what it seems to be? It's like that silly little game Morris and Jerome play with the money. I had to read on the True Prince Stories site to understand that fully.

guarinigirl2000 said:

What it should have said was:

It's called acting. They are establishing a relationship between the two characters beyond the realism of the dialogue. It allows to buy into their friendship and makes them more 3D... barely... It's a bit like Pitt and Clooney in Ocean's 11: much information and suggestion of character is given through body language, like the 'breathing contest'. It allows the audience to understand the closeness of the two characters and allows us to like them more. I think it's called naturalism.

well, then, just let them hug each other or something. but what if I told an inside joke to another person in front of you, and you didn't get it? I'm just sayin'...

BoySimon said:

It's not meant to be an inside joke. It's actually over the top obvious (as is most of Prince's material)

Let me run down the scene as I remember it...

Tricky says something to the effect that Mary Sharon is gonna be his.

C. Tracy then says something like, "oh, lawd I can c it now, "mother dear meet me new husband(mockingly quoting Mary Sharon introducing Tricky to MOM)", and when the police come and take yo'ass down 2tha joint this is me...oh no officer I don't know him...he said what officer?...my brother!..oh no we definately have different fathers, check it out, butterschotch(pointing to him), chocolate(pointing to tricky) No way"

Then they stare at each other breathing heavily as if they're both getting pissed, and thats when Tricky comes back with "Honey dontyouknow I'll....(you know the rest.

Thats pretty obvious i think

TANKAEFC said:

It's a black thang
[Edited 10/24/07 16:06pm]

Tricky is big and black.


Prince is small and white or Asian, or whatever his race is.


So if Tricky tries to pull that "we're related" stuff, Prince was gonna lay the smackdown on his black ass




Something like that anyway.

Imago said:

Christopher said:

Oh Snap! co-

KidaDynamite said:

TANKAEFC said:[quote]yeah, okay, but why couldn't they have been a little more clear, or at least let us in on the inside joke, which is what it seems to be? It's like that silly little game Morris and Jerome play with the money. I had to read on the True Prince Stories site to understand that fully.

A lot of black families and friends,including my own, joke like that every day (not to say that its exclusive to being black) and it goes right over the head of most people. But doing that in the south of france is definitely different. That humor is part of what makes that movie funny. They are constantly playing the dozens.
[Edited 10/26/07 14:33pm]

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