Just Wright And Brown Sugar Comparison

In the movies Just Wright directed by Sanaa Hamri and Brown Sugar directed by Rick Famuyiwa two people are brought together and fall in love through their unintentional love for something else. Whether it be a love for basketball or a love for hip hop, the characters were brought together by their shared passion, music, and their strong friendship and more importantly both films use music to symbolize healthy black love.
In the movie “Brown sugar”

In the movie “Just Wright” the love realization scene is obvious when Leslie and Scott sit down to play the piano together. Through Leslies dedication to helping Scott get his chance to recover from his injury and continue to stay a professional basketball player. It is Scotts love for basketball

that not only wills him to continue his rehab, but grow him closer to Leslie without exactly knowing it. The piano duet scenes that allude to it being the scene where they realize their love for each other are the soft lighting that is often seen as sensual lighting because it is dark enough to soften someone’s facial features, but light enough to be able to see the person still, the aromanticness of singing and playing piano together, and the closeness of the two characters to each other. Leslie tells Scott in this scene that no matter what happens you are still a champion which is said with a tone that holds so much passion and truth behind it, it shows that she really believes in the words she is saying (Hamri). They play piano and sing together, with the music acting as the final connecting piece between them for the two characters to realize their love for each other. As mentioned in chapter 4 in the eBook ‘Understanding Black American Aspects in Hip Hop and Cinema’, “when Scott is with Leslie, jazz and other types of soul music begin to dominate” (Sanchez, 39-40).