1. About the title: The title comes from a line by the famous rapper Tupac, the original text is "The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody" The first letter of each word is concatenated together, which is "THUG LIFE", which means "thug life". Tupac himself has the words "THUG LIFE" tattooed on his abdomen, and there is a rap group headed by him called "THUG LIFE", and the only album released by the group is also titled "THUG LIFE". In addition, Tupac and his stepfather Mutulu Shakur (1950-, a black American nationalist) co-drafted in 1992 a "law of mob life", which gang members must abide by. More than 20 regulations, including no informers, no harm to children, no harm to pregnant women, no trouble in schools, no harassment of innocent civilians, etc. These regulations enhance the morality of the gang, while preventing gang violence from spreading to innocents. In fact, in black culture, the word "thug" has many rich meanings. For example, the first item of "The Law of Mob Life" is what new members need to know before joining a gang: first, they will make a lot of money; second, they will will go to prison; third, there may be death. This also explains what a "thug" is from an objective point of view. The reason why many black youths become "thugs" is the harsh social environment. Therefore, when Tupac talks about "thug life", he gives it a new meaning. He believes that "thug" does not refer to criminals, but refers to those who came from poverty and had nothing, tried their best to overcome obstacles and finally succeeded. people.
2. About swear words: At the beginning of the film, the father Damai Fu was reprimanded by his wife for saying the word shit. In the original book, Starr had a swearing jar at home. Whenever his father accidentally said swearing words, he had to go to the house. A dollar in the swearing jar ends up being pocket money for little brother Sekani. So Sekani waited eagerly for Dad to say dirty words every day.
3. About Maya: The protagonist has two good friends, besides the white girl Hailey, there is also the Chinese girl Maya, who is the girl with black hair in the film. In the original book, Hailey once asked Maya if she ate cats because she was Chinese.
4. About Emmett Till: African American, lynched in 1955. The brutality of the murder, and the eventual acquittal of the murderer, drew widespread attention to the violent persecution of African-Americans. In the film, Starr posted a photo of Emmett Till on the social networking site Tumblr, only to be blocked by a friend.
5. About The Hood Trio: It is translated as "the trio next door" in the movie. In fact, Hood here refers to the hood. In the Harry Potter series of novels, wizards often wear cloaks with hoods, and black people also I like to wear hoodies, for example, Starr in the film wears a hoodie when he goes to a party.
6. About Starr: The protagonist Starr's name is homophonic with star (star) in English. In the original book, her father often nicknamed her "little star" (little star).
7. About fried chicken: In the US, racists often associate fried chicken with African Americans (blacks). There are many reasons, the most popular saying is that during the American Civil War, black slaves were not allowed to keep other animals but chickens, so they liked fried chicken. Racists often use this to attack black people. In the film, Starr doesn't do well when playing basketball with her friend. The friend tells her to treat the ball as fried chicken, and Starr is immediately angry.
8. About the N-word: Starr once said in the film that it is not only racist to say the N-word. N-word refers to nigga, which is a contempt for black people. If people of other races call black people this way, it is extremely impolite. Only black people can call each other this way, which means "man, brother". In addition, there is a sentence "Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished" (Never Ignorant Goals Accomplished), the initials of which are NIGGA.
9. About the Black Panther Party's "Ten Point Platform": A set of guidelines for the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary black group, that expresses their ideals, including demands for freedom, justice for black people in the courts, and an end to police brutality and murder of black people crimes, etc. In the film, the father had three children recite the terms on the grass.
10. About Chris: The protagonist's boyfriend was originally played by Kian Lawley, but after the filming ended, a video of him making racist remarks was exposed on the Internet, so the crew changed the actor, and KJ Apa played the role, and retake all relevant footage. In the end, the reason why the plot to let Chris leave the parade scene may also be to reduce the retake of the scene. In the original book, Chris and Starr participated in the parade. When they were sitting in the truck with the reporter, the reporter said to the camera: "There are many young people protesting here tonight, both black and white." In fact, Garden Heights usually does not There were no white people, so Chris joked that he was all white.
11. About Black Owner: During the last parade, someone wrote the words "Black Owner" on the shop to indicate that the shop was owned by black people and reminded the parade crowd not to destroy it. The original author wrote ironically: "This A few words are the blood of the lamb to avoid disaster." She strongly opposed the violent march.
12. Due to space limitations, the film deleted two very lovely main characters from the book, namely, the swearing grandmother and DeVante, a teenager who escaped from the drug gang.
13. The screenwriter Audrey Wells died of cancer the day before the film's limited release.
14. When the film was just released in a small area, it was rated as low as 4.9/10 on IMDb. The one-star review at that time was mainly for the theme of the film, and it was believed that this kind of film should not be made. It is now rated 6.8/10.
15. At the end of the original work, more than a dozen people's names were listed. I checked them one by one when translating the book, and made notes. The following are excerpted in order.
Oscar (Oscar): Refers to Oscar Grant (Oscar Grant, 1986-2009), a twenty-two-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by police in Oakland, California.
Aiyana: Refers to Aiyana Jones (2002-2010), a seven-year-old black girl who was shot and killed during a raid directed by the Detroit Police Department's special operations team.
Trayvon: Trayvon Martin (1995-2012), a seventeen-year-old black boy who was shot by volunteers from the Community Defense Organization in Sanford, Florida die.
Rekia: Rekia Boyd (1991-2012), a twenty-one-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by police in Chicago, Illinois.
Michael (Michael): Refers to Michael Brown (1996-2014), an 18-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri.
Eric: Refers to Eric Garner (1970-2014), a forty-three-year-old black man who suffocated during his arrest by the New York City Police Department.
Tamir: Tamir Rice (2002-2014), a twelve-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by police in Cleveland, Ohio.
John: Refers to John Crawford (1992-2014), a twenty-two-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by police in Beaver Creek, Ohio.
Ezell: Refers to Ezell Ford (1989-2014), a twenty-five-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by police in Los Angeles, California.
Sandra: Refers to Sandra Bland (1987-2015), a twenty-eight-year-old black woman who was arrested during a traffic stop and found three days later in Texas Hanged to death in Waller County jail.
Freddie: Refers to Freddie Gray (1990-2015), a twenty-five-year-old black boy who was arrested by the Baltimore City Police Department and died unexpectedly while being escorted.
Alton: refers to Alton Sterling (1979-2016), a thirty-seven-year-old black man who was shot and killed by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana .
Philando: Refers to Philando Castile (1983-2016), a thirty-two-year-old black man who was shot and killed by police in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time, Castiel was in a car with his girlfriend and four-year-old daughter when two police officers ordered him to stop and asked him to show his driver's license and permit. As Castiel reached for identification, one of the officers fired seven shots at him.
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