Extended Reading
  • Domenica 2022-03-15 08:01:02

    also the cotton club

    There is also a cotton club in Shanghai. Like the cotton club in the film, it is also a famous local jazz bar with great music and musicians, and every night it is full of seats. Of course, the era has changed, gangster is no longer there, and there is no access control for only whites. On the...

  • Felix 2022-03-15 08:01:02

    a string of words

    What impressed me the most was the line of a black man who appeared only once, which shocked me.

    "I am not a dancer. I am a pimp and a thief and a gambler. that's what I do. I don't have no talent to dance. I can't get my foot into cotton club where my people, black people, are the stars. Why?...

  • Shemar 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    Too much singing and dancing can be distracting and disrupt the narrative rhythm. What's worse is that these song and dance shows are extremely expensive, with a total cost of 58 million, twice that of "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​of the same era in the same year, and the money was not spent on the knife's edge. If you put too much stuff in, the gangs are divided into Italian, Irish, Jewish, and black. Black people naturally lead to racial discrimination, and then two groups of love are juxtaposed. There are also struggles in the entertainment industry, and they want to express too much.

  • Avis 2022-03-23 09:03:29

    1. You can't see her at dawn. At least you miss her at night. There is no reason for this unquenchable firefly. This stubborn HAPPENDING is awesome 2. Long live art, please accept my knees, I want to pack every font, every picture, every outfit 3. A decadent era, a rotten city, shining with a dark whereabouts 4. The rhythm of the characters and the sense of conflict I like it very much. It's very Coppola. Anyway, I like it very much.

The Cotton Club quotes

  • Frenchy: Anything you need, Dutch?

    Dutch Schultz: Yeah, why don't you bring me the moon, Frenchy?

  • Sandman Williams: Baby, you may be passin' for white, but you ain't invisible.