{"id":16407,"date":"2024-04-28T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16407"},"modified":"2024-04-24T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:40:00","slug":"mo-better-blues-1990-spike-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16407","title":{"rendered":"Mo&#8217; Better Blues (1990, Spike Lee)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Lee manages a jazz band composed of trumpeter Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes on sax, Radio Raheem on bass, Sweet Dick Willie on drums and Giancarlo Esposito on keys, and I&#8217;m fine, I&#8217;m very happy with all this, don&#8217;t need any kind of storyline.  But we get one anyway, with Spike&#8217;s gambling debts and poor management, Snipes wishing to lead his own group, and Denzel juggling two girls: Joie Lee and Cynda Williams (later of the Arkansas-set <em>One False Move<\/em>).  Movie is heavyhanded with its ideas, everyone telling Denzel that he doesn&#8217;t know what he wants in life. He gets what he gets &#8211; busted in the face by Sam Jackson while trying to defend Spike, ending up with a family with Joie and no music career, overall a halfway decent script, but with ten of my favorite actors and some of the greatest scene staging of the decade, an excellent movie.  In Rosenbaum&#8217;s heavy jazz-analysis review he reports the movie was to be titled <em>A Love Supreme<\/em> &#8220;until Coltrane&#8217;s widow denied him permission, reportedly because of the film&#8217;s use of profanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/mobetter1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/mobetter2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Lee manages a jazz band composed of trumpeter Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes on sax, Radio Raheem on bass, Sweet Dick Willie on drums and Giancarlo Esposito on keys, and I&#8217;m fine, I&#8217;m very happy with all this, don&#8217;t need any kind of storyline. But we get one anyway, with Spike&#8217;s gambling debts and poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,2205,1491,643,359,3250],"class_list":["post-16407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-denzel-washington","tag-jazz","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-spike-lee","tag-wesley-snipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16444,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16407\/revisions\/16444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}