Showing posts with label Martin Sheen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martin Sheen. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Sunday, August 05, 2007
TALK TO ME, SHOWS SOUL OF DON CHEADLE'S PETEY GREEN.
-Martin Sheen & Chiwetel Ejiofor almost steals show from Cheadle's P-Town
First Contact: Admiral
Score Rank: Captain
All of the performances are both very real and 3-D, as the actors provide their characterisations warts and all. Director Kasi Lemons (Eve's Bayou) realistically bring one into the world of the D.J. superstar of of the D.C. area- after it became a Chocolate City (predominately African American.)
Cheadle (Crash) will easily get an Oscar nomination, as will Ejiolr (Serenity)for playing business man ying to Cheadle's truth above all else yang.
Taraji P. Henson provides the sexy heart of the piece, as P-Town's expertly sexy and well-endowed lover, who as likely to attack him with a glass bottle (after he cheats on her) as have a loving three way with him (with another lady) as a reward for Green being sober for six months.
Martin Sheen as both Dewey's and Petey's boss, provide great weight and brevity in his role. When a certain historic black figure dies, he realistically appears more broken hearted than his black counterparts- which stunned them that he cared that much, about their hero.
The film focuses on Green's rise from a con (with D.J. experience) to being the first black popular voice of his medium. Ejiofor's quiet,yet resourceful Dewey Hughes (later-owner of a powerful radio network and the emerging TV One cable channel) takes him under his wing: leading to comedy clubs and his own cult hit late night talk show.
Green's finest hour, was ending the riots that broke out in D.C.- when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Even there, He and Hughes save a white man from an angry mob. This leads to an appearance on the Johnny Carson show (with Forrest Gump like real footage (of Carson) at a key moment,) where if Green does well, "the world is yours" claims Hughes.
The film's message is expending your horizons, while being true to one's self. Also, that change and compromise can be almost impossible tasks.
"Well, That's all we got and there aint no more. My time is tight and that's the end of the show," said Petey- as he would end his telecasts.Check out Talk To Me, you will not be disappointed in this near perfect work- about a man filed with imperfections, that was barley but successfully able to beat them.
-Martin Sheen & Chiwetel Ejiofor almost steals show from Cheadle's P-Town
First Contact: Admiral
Score Rank: Captain
All of the performances are both very real and 3-D, as the actors provide their characterisations warts and all. Director Kasi Lemons (Eve's Bayou) realistically bring one into the world of the D.J. superstar of of the D.C. area- after it became a Chocolate City (predominately African American.)
Cheadle (Crash) will easily get an Oscar nomination, as will Ejiolr (Serenity)for playing business man ying to Cheadle's truth above all else yang.
Taraji P. Henson provides the sexy heart of the piece, as P-Town's expertly sexy and well-endowed lover, who as likely to attack him with a glass bottle (after he cheats on her) as have a loving three way with him (with another lady) as a reward for Green being sober for six months.
Martin Sheen as both Dewey's and Petey's boss, provide great weight and brevity in his role. When a certain historic black figure dies, he realistically appears more broken hearted than his black counterparts- which stunned them that he cared that much, about their hero.
The film focuses on Green's rise from a con (with D.J. experience) to being the first black popular voice of his medium. Ejiofor's quiet,yet resourceful Dewey Hughes (later-owner of a powerful radio network and the emerging TV One cable channel) takes him under his wing: leading to comedy clubs and his own cult hit late night talk show.
Green's finest hour, was ending the riots that broke out in D.C.- when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Even there, He and Hughes save a white man from an angry mob. This leads to an appearance on the Johnny Carson show (with Forrest Gump like real footage (of Carson) at a key moment,) where if Green does well, "the world is yours" claims Hughes.
The film's message is expending your horizons, while being true to one's self. Also, that change and compromise can be almost impossible tasks.
"Well, That's all we got and there aint no more. My time is tight and that's the end of the show," said Petey- as he would end his telecasts.Check out Talk To Me, you will not be disappointed in this near perfect work- about a man filed with imperfections, that was barley but successfully able to beat them.
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