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She's Gotta Have It
Directed by Spike Lee
Produced by Pamm R. Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20 1957 is an Emmy Award -winning and Academy Award -nominated American Film director, Jackson
Spike Lee
(credited as Shelton J. Lee)
Written by Spike Lee
Starring Tracy Camilla Johns
Tommy Redmond Hicks
John Canada Terrell
Spike Lee
Music by Bill Lee
Editing by Spike Lee
Distributed by Island Pictures
Release date(s) August 8, 1986
Running time 88 minutes
Language English
Budget $175,000 (estimated)
Allmovie profile
IMDb profile

She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee. Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20 1957 is an Emmy Award -winning and Academy Award -nominated American Film director, Tracy Camilla Johns (born in April 12 1963 in Queens New York, U Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20 1957 is an Emmy Award -winning and Academy Award -nominated American Film director, William "Bill" James Edwards Lee III (born July 23 1928) is an American musician Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20 1957 is an Emmy Award -winning and Academy Award -nominated American Film director, Events 1220 - Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Events April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20 1957 is an Emmy Award -winning and Academy Award -nominated American Film director, It was also Lee's first feature-length film. The films stars Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks and John Canada Terrell. Tracy Camilla Johns (born in April 12 1963 in Queens New York, U

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Plot

Nola Darling (portrayed by Tracy Camilla Johns) is a young, attractive, sexually independent Brooklynite who juggles three suitors: the polite and well-meaning Jamie Overstreet (Tommy Redmond Hicks); the self-obsessed model Greer Childs (John Canada Terrell); and the immature, motormouthed bicycle messenger Mars Blackmon (Lee). Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. A model is a person who is posed or displayed for the purpose of Art, Fashion, or other products and Advertising. Nola is attracted to the best in each of them, but refuses to commit to any of them, cherishing her personal freedom instead, even though each man wants her for himself.

She’s Gotta Have It contributes to countless African American elements and popular film language. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa In addition, it represents the first movie of the 1980s to place the achievement of individual desire at the forefront of the black liberation movement, in the same manner the individual is at the center of the hip-hop revolution. Hip hop is a cultural movement which developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latinos. The movie also gave blackness a universal face, through the eyes of Mars (Spike Lee) and a universal home, Brooklyn. Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20 1957 is an Emmy Award -winning and Academy Award -nominated American Film director, Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is the story of Nola Darling, a young black woman, a source of conversation both in and out of the film. The film’s narrative style is taken from the challenges and pleasures of the competing views on who Nola truly is. This signifies the major source of controversy of the sexism in the movie as the viewer is reluctant to accept Nola’s voice as authoritative. Many argue that the success of the film is a direct correlation to the audience’s desire for a modern and independent character like Nola. The character is able to demonstrate the stereotypes facing African American women and overcome it as an expression of her modernity. Nola idealizes having what men in the black community have, multiple sex partners, which symbolizes her as an individual struggling against the group. “A woman (or, at least Nola) can be a sexual being, doesn’t have to belong to a man, and perhaps shouldn’t even wish for such a thing. ” [1] Above all, Nola’s voice is the most revolutionary element in the film, a representation of the struggle of African American women in society at the time. [2]

Background

She's Gotta Have It was Spike Lee's first feature length motion picture as a writer/director and a landmark independent film of American cinema. United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century It marked a shift in African-American filmmaking away from the Blaxploitation era of the 1970s. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa Blaxploitation is a Film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many Exploitation films were made that targeted the urban This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970.

The New York Times wrote that the film "ushered in (along with Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise) the American independent film movement of the 1980s. Jim Jarmusch (born January 22 1953 in Akron Ohio; ˈdʒɑrməʃ is an American independent Film director. Stranger Than Paradise is an Absurdist Comedy film written and directed by American director Jim Jarmusch in 1984 It was also a groundbreaking film for African-American filmmakers and a welcome change in the representation of blacks in American cinema, depicting men and women of color not as pimps and whores, but as intelligent, upscale urbanites. " [1]

The film was shot in twelve days during the summer of 1985 on a budget of $175,000 and grossed $7,137,502 at the U. S. box office. [2] Spike Lee details his trials and consolations on the making and distribution of the film in the book Spike Lee's Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking. The highly stylized, black-and-white film features a jazz score by Lee's father, Bill. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States William "Bill" James Edwards Lee III (born July 23 1928) is an American musician Culture critic Nelson George, a personal friend of Lee's, was one of the film's main investors. Nelson George ( b September 1, 1957) is an African American author music and Culture Critic, Journalist, and

The film also served as a turning point for the Brooklyn neighborhood it was filmed in. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Throughout the film, Brooklyn was shown to be a vibrant neighborhood and was portrayed by Spike Lee to be cosmopolitan and a thriving place for African Americans. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20 1957 is an Emmy Award -winning and Academy Award -nominated American Film director, In the film he not only focused scenes on Nola and her struggles, but spent time shooting local children, residents and graffiti, revealing the struggles of the neighborhood and the people in it to the world. A public park was used for the setting of much of the movie, in which this public space is made to feel like a comfortable place for the characters. This served to encourage others to investigate public spaces in the neighborhood and created a link with viewers in other places who also had similar thriving public spaces that were of community importance. [3] After the movie was released media attention was drawn to Brooklyn, which created a sudden flood of artists and musicians began emerging from the neighborhood that was newly invigorated. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. [4]

Cast

Reception

Awards & nominations

1986 Cannes Film Festival

1986 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards

1987 Independent Spirit Awards

Current Availability

She's Gotta Have It was released on DVD for the first time in North America on January 15th, 2008, by Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment through United Artists and MGM. Tracy Camilla Johns (born in April 12 1963 in Queens New York, U Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20 1957 is an Emmy Award -winning and Academy Award -nominated American Film director, "Mars Blackmon" was a fictional character from the 1986 film She's Gotta Have It. Joie Susannah Lee (born June 22, 1962) is an American Screenwriter, Film producer, Film director and actress S Epatha Merkerson (born Sharon Epatha Merkerson on November 28, 1952) is an American Golden Globe - Screen Actors Guild William "Bill" James Edwards Lee III (born July 23 1928) is an American musician Erik Todd Dellums (born 1964 is a US Actor. He has had parts in television police dramas such as New York Undercover, Homicide Reginald Alan Hudlin (born December 15 1961) is an American writer and film director Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (usually credited as Ernest R Dickerson or Ernest Dickerson, born June 25, 1951) is an American film This article is on the Yo! MTV Raps host For the NHL player see Fred Brathwaite. The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association ("LAFCA" was founded in 1975 Founded in 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards were originally known as the FINDIE Awards ("Friends of Independents" and presented winners with This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. However, despite the film celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2006 and being available on DVD in the United Kingdom, the DVD release for Region 1 took longer than expected. For a number of years, the film could only be seen by the public on its now out-of-print VHS tape, or occasional appearances on television networks such as the Independent Film Channel. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic The Independent Film Channel ( IFC) is a cable network that airs independent film and related programming uncut and uncensored 24 hours a day

In the mid 90's, The Criterion Collection released the film on laserdisc. The Criterion Collection is a Privately held company that distributes "authoritative" consumer versions of "important classic and contemporary films" The Laserdisc (LD is an obsolete Home video disc format and was the first commercial Optical disc storage medium A well-supplemented disc, it was likely to simply be reissued on DVD by The Criterion Collection, which had re-released other Spike Lee Joint's including Do The Right Thing. "Do the Right Thing" is also an Australian anti-litter campaign According to Spike Lee's agent, the film was to be eventually released on DVD. Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20 1957 is an Emmy Award -winning and Academy Award -nominated American Film director, But, after frequent e-mails to Jonathan Turell of The Criterion Collection, the rumour ended with him saying "No for She's Gotta Have It. We don't have DVD rights. " [3]

The current DVD contains no special features. No further plans for a Special Edition release by the Criterion Collection have been confirmed as of yet.

Notes

  1. ^  "She's Gotta Have It". Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo is a Website that tracks Box office Revenue in a systematic way Retrieved January 30, 2006.

References

  1. ^ “She’s Gotta Have It” http://www.popmatters.com/pm/film/reviews/53001/shes-gotta-have-it/
  2. ^ Diawara, Manthia. “Homeboy Cosmopolitan. ” In Search of Africa, 237-76. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
  3. ^ Diawara, Manthia: Homeboy Cosmopolitan. in Search of Africa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1998.
  4. ^ E. R. Shipp. Their Muse was Malcolm X. Retrieved on 2008-4-30.

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