Brown Sugar Essay

630 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: How important is music in movies essay

I chose the film Brown Sugar to discuss the hidden messages that were displayed in the plot and the love the characters had for music and their black community. Brown Sugar reflects the importance of relationships that mirrored love and the strong culture within the black community. Dre and Sydney’s relationship for example suggest that they are in love even though they are both involved with other people. They learn how to survive with each other but at the same are not with each other. Music plays an important role and it shows how the characters lives grow throughout the film. Majority of the music in Brown Sugar is hip hop and the music during each scene reflects the mood and tone. The main storyline revolves around two characters and …show more content…

Dre and Sydney's relationship has been something they have had since they were young children. Their relationship flourished when hip hop became involved. They both respect and understand the importance of hip hop and that is what keeps them so attached to each other. Their shared passion for music is what really separates them from the other couples in the film. Dre and his wife, Reese, do not know each other well enough because Reese does not care for hip hop. Sydney says multiple that hip hop changed her and it makes the black community stronger. Hip hop allows them to stay connected with their black roots and traditions while the lyrics represent the pride within their community. This allows the artists to use different view points for the audience to represent what they went through or know. At minute 47, Sydney and Dre are sitting on a park bench outside talking, Dre just explained to her that he quit his job and is unhappy with his life. They both begin to rap to each other and the mood lightens. This scene was a huge breakthrough for both of the characters, it brought them even closer. While rapping, it brought back memories from when they were kids and it made them both realize how happy they make each other. The park’s scene is peaceful which allowed them to open up to each other because the space around them let them feel

Show More
Related

  • Film Analysis Of The Movie 'Sapphires'

    1061 Words  | 3 Pages

    This film represents our indigenous culture and regardless of what happens we can find good in a situation. Together the black and white community can come together and achieve more than they could ever do by themselves.

    Read More

  • Raisin In The Sun Comparison Essay

    565 Words  | 2 Pages

    The strikingly accurate portrayal of the life of an African American family in the 1950’s did a great job of keeping the interest up. The director’s mise-en-scene gave the film a believability that is rarely achieved. They did this through the well staged apartment that the film takes place in for the majority of the screen time. The cramped and cluttered home sets the stage for the actors in the film to truly live into their characters. The actors did a brilliant job of portraying the wide breadth of emotions in this film. Their engaging personalities kept the film alive and vibrant the

    Read More

  • Comparison Of Hip Hop And Elvis In The Inner City

    672 Words  | 2 Pages

    Mos Def’s “Hip Hop” and Jose B. Gonzalez’s “Elvis in the Inner City” are very similar even though the timeframes are different. It shows that circumstances of life don’t change as much as we think. Each character turned to music to get away from their own lives. Music was an escape.

    Read More

  • Interpersonal Communication In The Movie Crash

    810 Words  | 2 Pages

    The movie Crash educates the viewers on the effects of racism, and the negativity it places in our society. The interpersonal communication that was played out throughout the movie, made me more conscientiously aware, of how I interact with different ethnicities, so as not to offend

    Read More

  • Dark Girls Summary

    549 Words  | 2 Pages

    I chose this particular documentary because I am African-American and have personally experienced this issue with myself, my sisters and my daughter. Currently in the African-American community you see that there is a lot of unrest. We see this playing out in the media with the violence that is happening and question how to bring awareness to the issues and to make this better. I feel that this ties heavily to our self-worth and the love and respect that we must have and demand amongst ourselves first.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Ernie Barnes Sugar Shack

    636 Words  | 2 Pages

    The painting “Sugar Shack” depicts how African Americans relieve physical tension through dance and movement. This painting suggests that Ernie Barnes shows how his culture expresses themselves through dance. In fact, one of the reasons Sugar Shack is popular is because of the way Barnes captured physical strain and dynamic movement through the extension of arms and legs and the swaying of hips. We see the figures as men and women who are dancing in pairs, physically relating to one another and to other couples. This creates a sense of unity among all the figures in the piece, including the band. Barnes said, “Sugar Shack is a recall of a childhood experience. It was the first time my innocence met with the sins of dance.” The painting is supposed to make a person feel the rhythm while viewing it to show that African Americans use rhythm as

    Read More

  • Keeping Their Own Identity in Black Nationalism

    851 Words  | 2 Pages

    Hip-Hop became characterized by an aggressive tone marked by graphic descriptions of the harshness and diversity of inner-city life. Primarily a medium of popular entertainment, hip-hop also conveys the more serious voices of youth in the black community. Though the approaches of rappers became more varied in the latter half of the 1980s, message hip-hop remained a viable form for addressing the problems faced by the black community and means to solve those problems. The voices of "message" hip...

    Read More

  • Similarities of hip-hop and the blues

    1217 Words  | 3 Pages

    Hip-hop is one of the major music genres of today like the blues were in the 1950's. Stanley Crouch views hip-hop as being vulgar and obscene while he sees the blues as being one of the classic music genres. In actuality, these two genres are similar in many ways.

    Read More

  • The 60s (movie)

    2037 Words  | 5 Pages

    This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.

    Read More

  • Th Future of Hip Hop

    1612 Words  | 4 Pages

    From its conception in the 1970's and throughout the 1980's, hip hop was a self-contained entity within the community that created it. This means that all the parameters set for the expression came from within the community and that it was meant for consumption by the community. Today, the audience is from outside of the community and doesn’t share the same experiences that drive the music. An artists’ success hinges on pleasing consumers, not the community. In today's world, it isn’t about music that rings true for those who share the artists' experiences, but instead, music that provides a dramatic illusion for those who will never share the experiences conveyed. This has radically changed the creative process of artists and the diversity of available music. Most notably, it has called in to question the future of hip hop.

    Read More

  • The Last Spin Short Story

    1516 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the last part , the story got twisted where they both exchange their thoughts to leave the gang and plan to go on lake with their chicks in one boat. They became friend. This change in both characters comes only before the “last spin”. It seems they don't have any personal problems with each-other it was an out come of what they were settled for their gangs..

    Read More

  • The Effect Of Slave Music On African American Culture

    1289 Words  | 3 Pages

    Besides the slave music and the blues music, there is also another kind of music that make a lot effect to African American music.

    Read More

  • Something for Nothing: The Art of Rap

    1041 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...ts out to do, the art of rap and hip hop. That is the skill, talent, and ability that one must have in order to rhyme. Yet, the movie seems to not provide enough historical background or inform the audience of the cultural aspect of Hip Hop. Had the movie went deeper into the origins of Hip Hop then the audience would be able to get a fuller grasp about all the elements that are truly entwined in such a genre.

    Read More

  • The History of Hip Hop Music and Its Transition to Popular Music

    893 Words  | 2 Pages

    In conclusion, these theorists who explore hip hop all have generalized ideas of what hip hop represents. Johnson is more oriented towards the female side of hip hop, whereas Jeffries is focused on the unity side of what it offers and Smitherman thinks that it is a black CNN. Although each scholar focuses on different aspects of hip hop, it is evident to point out that all these aspects correlate with one another. Hip hop is a cultural tool formed out of a need to take a stance on the issues that relate to the black community. And that it’s a voice to relate and unite people who share the same struggles on which to advocate change.

    Read More

  • Sugar

    1538 Words  | 4 Pages

    Probably some of the most pleasurable and enjoyable memories of a person has to do with sweets. When thinking back to birthdays, there is always the memory of the wonderful cake that mother beautifully made and decorated with frosting and glazes. A typical night out with dad can be transformed into a magical evening with a trip to the ice cream parlor. The end of a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner turns heavenly when a hot apple pie is brought to the table and topped with delicious, melting vanilla ice cream. A good wedding is never complete without the cutting of the splendid multi-level wedding cake, when the happy new couple gets to playfully shove and smear cake and white frosting into each other’s smiling faces. Everyone knows that as a child, the only good part about going to the dentist is getting the candy bar at the end of the visit. Why do some people get sick after eating too much suger? Some people do not even know that the abuse of sugar can lead to negative effects on your body. There is something strangely enjoyable and resplendent about the consumption of sugar. Why is it that sugar is so deliciously enjoyable and at the same time a food product that has many negative affects on people’s health?

    Read More

More about Brown Sugar Essay

Open Document