1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Twist. I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: everything and everybody, you know, if you don't lie about that, right, 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: all right? So I told y'all that I was going 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: to get into my thoughts about Sinners, the movie by 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: Ryan Coogler, because it is. It's insane. If you haven't 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: seen it, go watch it. But let's get on into it. 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: Sinners is a horror film starring Michael B. Jordan by 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: Ryan Cougler and Baby. I've seen the film twice so 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: the opening weekend placed Sinners number one in the box office. 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: They made forty eight million dollars domestically and sixty three 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: point five million dollars globally, nineteen point two million dollars 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 1: domestically just in the opening day, and that number was 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: actually captured before the opening day even closed. This made 14 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: this the second biggest opening day for an original horror 15 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: film this decade. But this also made this film the 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: biggest debut in post pandemic history for an original film, 17 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: and Ryan Cougler and the cast earned a rare A 18 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: Cinema score. This is the first horror film to do 19 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 1: this in thirty five years. Don't You don't even Gotta 20 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: say nothing, y'all, Like that is so fire and Sinners 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: needs to make two hundred to two hundred and twenty 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: five million dollars globally in order to break even theatrically. 23 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: So the money that was put out to push the 24 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: film to do everything that they needed to do, you know, globally, 25 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: that is that's that's the number that they need to return. 26 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: Right now, this movie has surpassed a Minecraft movie already 27 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 1: numbers wise, right, A Minecraft movie is set to make 28 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: is predicted to make seven hundred million dollars globally. A 29 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: Minecraft movie is in seventy six international markets. Centners movie 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: is in seventy one international markets. So I'm gonna read 31 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: a tweet from Variety. This happened early in the release 32 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: of the movie. Variety released this statement, I mean this 33 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: headline on X. Sinners has a mask sixty one million 34 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: dollars in its global debut. It's a great result for 35 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: an original R rated horror film. Yet the Warner Brothers 36 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: release has a ninety million dollar price tag before global 37 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: marketing expenses, so profitability remains a ways away, y'all. They 38 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: hadn't even closed out Sunday. They hadn't even closed out 39 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: all seventy two hours of the weekend, and these were 40 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: the headlines every time they talk about black movies in 41 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 1: the theaters. Instead of talking about how well they're doing, 42 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 1: they talk about what is not being done. Let's talk 43 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: about what's actually happening here, and if they're not gonna 44 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 1: do it, I will. So I saw some people upset, 45 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: and I wanted to get on here and have a 46 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: conversation about that, because what is what Centners is doing 47 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: outside of hitting all the marks we talked about earlier 48 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: making all of the money, making Michael be Jordan look 49 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: damn good, because baby, the muscles were muscle ling, okay, 50 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: Michael B Jordan. And I don't know if it was 51 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: like the muscles with the guns and the action and 52 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: the but Michael b Jordan was he was giving it up. Okay, 53 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: he was looking good. So there's most conversations happening, but 54 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna focused on three. So the Bible thumpers right 55 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: now are having a conversation as they always do anytime 56 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: a black horror film drops. The Black Bible Thumpers come 57 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: out and they start having a conversation about black magic 58 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: and witchcraft and vampires and you know, darkness and the 59 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: devil and all of these things. And I get it. 60 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: I was raised very traditionally in a very black traditional church. 61 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: Where As I was watching this, I was like, my 62 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: grandmother would be pissed at me sitting here watching this 63 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: movie right now. But I think when they start having 64 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: a conversation around black magic and a lot of that thing, 65 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: a lot of those things in the movie, you really, 66 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: honestly just begin to see our healing power, Like especially 67 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: strong Black women in faith, Like strong Black women rooted 68 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: in spirituality and faith, they always emerge as being the 69 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: leaders of their relationships, of their families or their communities, 70 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: and they're often overlooked. What they do is often overlooked, 71 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: is often mopped until it's like the world is exploding. 72 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: I think we saw you will see if you have 73 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: not watched it yet, and if you did watch it, 74 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: you see that story life and play out, and you 75 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not going to 76 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: give it away. But it also dies into, like, you know, 77 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: the struggle with God that I think black people have, 78 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: especially Black people in poverty or in really hard situations, 79 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: they're always asking God why. Like there's a lot of 80 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: loss in this film, there's a lot of like we 81 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: had to fight, we had to kill, we had this, 82 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 1: we had to that. So God in the conversation around 83 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: that is like everybody's trying to get away from God 84 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: in this movie, and they're trying to find something, whether 85 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: it's money, whether it's love, whether it's wholeness, whether it's 86 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: a friend group, whatever, And it all comes back to 87 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the person who is 88 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: the main character in this film, taking us right back 89 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: to God. And I feel like that's what the vampires 90 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: kind of showed. It was like, here's these these bad 91 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: people who are doing these bad things. But because of 92 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: it's like a cause and effect. Because of that, people 93 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: are coming together, they're having a fight together, they're realizing 94 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: who really is there for them. They're realizing what happens 95 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: when you, you know what I mean, give your power and 96 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: your energy to the negative thoughts in the you know, 97 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: all the stuff that the devil tries to wrap you 98 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: up into, especially when you're doing well. You figured out something, 99 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: You figured out a way to make some money and maneuver. 100 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: I also thought that, you know, there was like such 101 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: a black versus white conversation in this movie the white 102 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: passing conversation was like one that I think a lot 103 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: of people didn't really sit with. I think a lot 104 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: of people just saw black versus white, because that is 105 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: very prevalent in the movie, especially before the time period 106 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: that the movie is during the gym Crow period, so 107 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: especially during the time period the movie is placed in 108 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: where the movie is placed, and that is very prevalent. 109 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: There's a lot of like leaning into Irish culture as well. 110 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: And it made me like google the Black struggle and 111 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 1: the Irish struggle. In this film, you really get a 112 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: sense of like, if we had all just figured it 113 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: out and work together, could it have been better? Because 114 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: at one point they were the white people, weren't weren't 115 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: fooling with this little set of white people, this set 116 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: of Irish people, right, and they were pushed away. They 117 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: were they were that they were able to assimulate back 118 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: into culture way differently and come up of course, you know, 119 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: and and that's a conversation for another day, but it 120 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: was there for them too. So even with you know, 121 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: certain people of certain uh you know, backgrounds, choosing to 122 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: be so black versus white, when in reality, there are 123 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: sectors of these cultures where it's like y'all weren't accepted either. 124 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: They wasn't fooling with y'all either, to the point where 125 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: they bring the KKK into this, and I'll just give 126 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: y'all a little spoilers, so spoiler alert. Some of the 127 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: evil people that are Irish, they even lean into the 128 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: fact that they had to bring in a member of 129 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: the k KKK and kind of work this person so 130 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: that they had an inside man because they wasn't fooling 131 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: with them either, nor were they fooling with us this 132 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 1: whole movie either. So that was it made me look 133 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: look up that and again I'm not comparing the two 134 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: because black is black, period, and you can't tell me 135 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: nothing about what we're dealing with it if you look 136 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: like a white man white men, you know what I mean, period, 137 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: you just can't tell me it's just not happening. And 138 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out, like what Ryan Cookleer's point 139 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: and that was, and honestly, it made me want to 140 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: do more research. And we're reading around that and I 141 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: love films that do that, but the White Passing Conversation, 142 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: it brought that up a ton because the ability to 143 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,119 Speaker 1: just kind of like move in an out of different 144 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: cultures in different sectors, different music, different energies, different you 145 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: know what I mean, struggles versus non struggle, and to 146 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: turn it on and turn it off. The ability to 147 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: do that it comes back to, you know, backfire in 148 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: this film really heavily, like extremely heavily. Y'all, y'all gotta 149 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: go see this movie. But I will say though, like 150 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: the way that mainstream media covered this movie, I think 151 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: it's not going to do anything but help it. I 152 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: got to move on now because it's so hard to 153 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: talk about the film without giving y'all the film. But 154 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: please go see Centers if you have seen it already, 155 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: drop alone to comments some of the conversations that you 156 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: picked up from the movie. There's a lot more like 157 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: I was in the movie, like writing down like a 158 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: notepad of just different things I wanted to research, and 159 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: like just just so much stuff, just soul, my stuff.