Transcript soul_men - Christ in Culture

Everything You Need To Know About
Soul Men
…As It Relates To You And Your World
The Actors, Director, Info,
Reviews, and Photos
MPAA Rating: R
(for pervasive language, and
sexual content including nudity)
Photos © 2008 MGM. Review © David Bruce
The story of Louis and Floyd, a
popular singing duo back in
the day, who went their
separate ways and never
spoke again. When the death
of their former group leader
reunites them and sends them
driving cross country for a
tribute concert at the
legendary Apollo Theatre, they
will have only five days to bury
the hatchet on a twenty-yearold grudge.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
(Louis Hinds)
 Married to Latanya Richardson
and has a daughter named Zoe
 Jackson has only met his father
twice during his life
 The second highest-grossing
movie star of all time
 Jackson is bald in real life
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BERNIE MAC (Floyd Henderson)
 Married Rhonda McCullough
in 1977. They had one daughter,
Je'Niece
 Just prior to his death on
August 9, 2008, he had finished
working on the film Soul Men
with Isaac Hayes, who
coincidentally died the next day
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 Started as a stand-up
comedian in Chicago's Cotton
Pickin' Club
 Hayes fathered 12 children,
and has 14 grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren
 Was involved in human rights
related groups such as the One
Campaign
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ISAAC HAYES (Isaac Hayes)
 (August 20, 1942 – August 10,
2008) Was a soul and funk
singer-songwriter, musician,
record producer, arranger,
composer, and actor
 An American actor, film
director, and screenwriter
 Directed such films as
Undercover Brother, The Best
Man, and Roll Bounce
 He is the cousin of
accomplished film director
Spike Lee
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MALCOLM D. LEE
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 Screenplay by
ROBERT RAMSEY
and MATTHEW STONE
 Original Music by
STANLEY CLARKE
 Cinematography by
MATTHEW F. LEONETTI
Director Lee said
the film was heavily
re-edited to soften
the tone of the film,
as a tribute to the
two actors.
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Mac and Isaac
Hayes each died in
unrelated
circumstances in
August 2008.
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Louis (Samuel L. Jackson)
and Floyd (Bernie Mac), were
a popular singing duo back
in the day.
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They went their
separate ways and
never spoke again.
Photos © 2008 MGM. Review © David Bruce
When the death of their
former group leader
(John Legend) reunites
them…
Photos © 2008 MGM. Review © David Bruce
…and sends
them driving
cross country for
a tribute concert
at the legendary
Apollo Theatre.
Photos © 2008 MGM. Review © David Bruce
They will have only five days to
bury the hatchet on a twentyyear-old grudge.
Photos © 2008 MGM. Review © David Bruce
Consensus voice:
“A tender, tangy and wild tale in
a kooky convergence of music,
memory and male bonding
blues. And a movie truly about
lasting impressions, where
you're very likely to laugh till you
cry, when not the other way
around”
--Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze
 A comedic look at male
bonding
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 A celebration of the trials,
joys and value of friendship
Friendship should last a lifetime, but isn’t it weird how
things, like money, can divide it? This is why poet
Samuel Johnson so wisely stated that we “should
keep friendships in constant repair.” Friendships, like
marriages, require work. Friendships are so worth the
effort, as songwriter Thomas Moore reminds us, “To
the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than
friendship.”
Review © David Bruce
Soul Men celebrates friendship. Mark Twain had it
right when he humorously said, “The holy passion of
Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and
enduring a nature that it will last through a whole
lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
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2 THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT
FRIENDSHIP
Don't flatter yourself that friendship
authorizes you to say disagreeable
things to your intimates.
1. The nearer you come into relation
with a person, the more necessary
do tact and courtesy become.
2. Except in cases of necessity, which
are rare, leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his
enemies; they are ready enough to
tell them.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Friendship is born at that
moment when one person says
to another: What! You too? I
thought I was the only one”
--C. S. Lewis