Just Wright And Brown Sugar Film Analysis

Ana Galaz

AFAS 371

30 April 2017

The films Just Wright and Brown Sugar both emphasize romanticism throughout the movies. Although in both movies the issues are brought up in very different ways, many of the problems faced are focused on just that. Both films are very similar in one way, and that is in which the black communities are portrayed. In both movies, the black communities really emphasize what it is that the communities support and are passionate towards relating to black culture, and there is a sense of respect for those things, which leads to love. I really enjoyed that in both movies, these relationships were created through mutual love for something that is respected within the community in a professional manner.

In Just Wright,

Now grown up, Sidney is the chief and editor of XXL, a hip-hop magazine and Dre is a talent scout for Millennium Records. Both Sidney and Dre are very invested in their love for hip-hop. There are complications between the two throughout the movie that starts with Dre proposing to his girlfriend, Reese. Dre decides to quit his job and start his own record company, planning to focus on what real hip-hop was and to emphasize the ways in which his generation fell in love with it in the first place. Reese does not support him, while Sidney does, this brings them closer together because Dre makes Sidney his partner in the label. Both characters realize in their struggles and love for hip-hop that being true to one another and the music is the only way to change anything for the better. In one of the scenes during the film, Sidney says “I don’t have to pretend with hip hop and hip hop doesn’t have to pretend with me” (Brown Sugar). Sidney makes very clear in her book and in her love for hip-hop that she is talking about Dre metaphorically. Love begins to spark between two people through mutual love for something that is respected within the community in a professional manner, that being