{"id":27,"date":"2018-04-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bender-lib.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/16\/movies-at-random-new-jack-city\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:00:00","slug":"movies-at-random-new-jack-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/16\/movies-at-random-new-jack-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies At Random: New Jack City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tToday&#8217;s random DVD is Mario Van Peebles&#8217; <i>New Jack City<\/i> (<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=552487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HU DVD 1097<\/a>). A 1991 action gangster film, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Jack_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a> makes it sound like there&#8217;s some disagreement about just how anti-gangster this film is, and Time Out London called it &#8220;a superior example of what used to be called blaxploitation.&#8221; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102526\/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IMDB trivia page<\/a> on this one is pretty epic too, my favorite example being:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Inside the Actors Studio (1994), Chris Rock claimed that for several years following his acclaimed performance as a crack addict, drug dealers would approach him and put crack and cocaine in his pocket; joking that &#8220;they thought it was a documentary.&#8221; He stated that, although he knew people who used crack at the time, he never did and, in his 1997 memoir &#8220;Rock This&#8221; had only smoked marijuana twice. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102526\/trivia?item=tr1016500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from imdb<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gangster film about a young, rich, smart drug baron who thinks he\u2019s untouchable, and the tough, street-smart cops determined to bring him down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the trailer, with some epic trailer-voice:<\/p>\n<p>Happy viewing!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s random DVD is Mario Van Peebles&#8217; New Jack City (HU DVD 1097). A 1991 action gangster film, Wikipedia makes it sound like there&#8217;s some disagreement about just how anti-gangster this film is, and Time Out London called it &#8220;a superior example of what used to be called blaxploitation.&#8221; The IMDB trivia page on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-use","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}