Amir Royale
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Stories (3/0)
A Collective Memorandum
At some point, you have to ask yourself whether or not this whole life thing is a joke. Every day, we wake up in another episode of one big fat sitcom together. Sometimes, there will be a whole lot of chuckles, in other moments, things might get serious. Today may not be the best day of our lives, but tomorrow is something to look forward to, even if it isn’t guaranteed. We spend most of our time on this Earth constantly searching for purpose, trying to top our previous endeavor, and proving all those who stood against us, pejoratively wrong (regardless of whether that’s the right thing to do). Yet, a huge question that always arises once we think we’ve done it all is, “What’s next?” You see, we might all be a part of the same hit television show, but no one in the industry seemed to care enough to pass out scripts for us to follow. Depending on our travels, the answer to our questions can be dark ones—if not a twisted form of funny—because all in all, no one can tell us our futures. But, “all good jokes contain true shit,” and who would I be to not laugh along?
By Amir Royale5 years ago in Beat
Why: A Traversal of Our Contextual Hidden Enemies
David Lynch’s 1995 cult classic, Se7en, is a cinematic art piece that poses questions galore. Like many of its psychological thriller peers, Se7en forces audience members to study the darker, bleak areas of their own consciences. The film constantly bathes within the concepts of murder, justice, Christian imagery, morality, and the intertwined relationships between all four to not only engage, but unbalance and distort the information we, as audiences, receive. This was definitely not the easiest task to do as a filmmaker, yet, Lynch took on the challenge with a stride that became without a doubt unmatched. In a year surrounded by comedies, family films and action blockbusters (ie. Toy Story, Casper & GoldenEye), Se7en placed 9th financially at the box office as the ONLY film with horror elements in the top ten. Thus, the film’s success presents a mirror image of what tends to matter to audiences, while viewing cinema—even if you can’t find it at first—especially considering the film being the black sheep of the bunch. And that’s what might be the most spectacular part about it, each and every horror film that hits the box office encourages us to look for those mirror images—but what are they?
By Amir Royale5 years ago in Geeks
The Flows of Poetic Justice
1988, Garvey High School. Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor chills in a lunchroom with his soon to be A Tribe Called Quest brethren Kamaal “Q-Tip” Fareed and Ali Muhammad. It’s their senior year. The boys are just “lounging,” as Phife puts it quirkily, watching some of the flyest “honeys” around the block walk by them. Phife becomes infatuated with one of the girls—a femme fatale by the name of Flo—and in the coming days learns a valuable lesson in how misogyny and sexism can easily be flipped upon males. It’s basically the same story Eddie Murphy goes through some years later in Boomerang (shout out to a young Robin Givens and my babygirl Halle Berry), except this story is about hormone driven boys in high school. How do we know that? Phife and Tip recall these events for audiences in 1991’s smooth, silky track, “Butter” off The Low-End Theory.
By Amir Royale5 years ago in Beat
