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DJ Spalls royally dissed?

post #1 of 8
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In The New Guy, check out the slow-motion, loud-n-groovy music scene of Spalls brushing past three girls and striding 'manfully' towards the camera for several steps, turning around, glancing at them for a moment, and then walking off the camera right. Starting about the middle passage of the scene, the centrally placed black girl wearing black pants and pink-orange top waves her hand suggestively and yells 'Beat, beat, beat you wanker'! She is partially and increasingly obscured by Spalls's body and jacket. She finishes by the time Spalls leaves the middle and walks off right, so that the lasting image is merely three girls looking innocently at the place where Spalls strode off camera. The air is practically flaming after the well-delivered insult, however.

What the girl does is not obvious to everyone, but even those who aren't deaf can definitely read her lips.

Thoughts:
Just how unpopular is Spalls? Was the set of the New Guy particularly bitchy or spiteful? Has that girl ever heard of professionalism? Why on earth did the director keep that scene?

It's also almost paradoxical that a teen comedy about the horrors of high school gives such an insight into horrors behind the scenes of the New Guy. Perhaps, this is not the only American film with concealed pourings of scorn on unpopular actors? What other similar scenes have there been?
post #2 of 8
arent you dissing him by calling him DJ Spalls?

His name is DJ Qualls.
post #3 of 8
And didn't that movie come out 2 years ago? Did you put the Zapruder film test to it, and slow it down frame-by-frame until you had the evidence to warrant your post on this? I need hard evidence Mr. Garrison, not supposition. And you spelling his name Spalls and not Qualls doesn't lend to your credibility. How dare you tread on the star of Road Trip and The Core!
post #4 of 8
Yeah, it did come out two years ago, after being shelved 4 times over the course of a year. Plus, as much as I hate to admit this, I've seen parts of this film on Starz! and it's uber-lame.
post #5 of 8
There was a similar scene in Pretty Woman, when (a then unknown) Greg Kinnear is seen calling Robert's character "a flithy whore." He too is mostly in the background, and you have to squint to read his lips, but it is one of the most brutal moments of that film, the thing that gives the film its true honesty.
post #6 of 8
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Hey, my bad, calling him Spalls. Yep, the movie's 2 years old (2002 release). Funny thing is the closing credits were full of production boards stating a 2000 production year. The movie was crummy enough to be sat on for two years it seems.

The prosecution now rests after strenuous efforts to subject the aforementioned scene to the Zapruder treatment as described. We argue that the Insult is clear as day; it's in effect its own smoking gun. It is clearly a matter of great importance.

The news about that Pretty Woman scene is interesting and fits with the movie too.
post #7 of 8
I'll have you know that the coach in The New Guy was none other than Sho' Nuff from Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon! And that's bad ass!
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Originally Posted by Momotaro
I'll have you know that the coach in The New Guy was none other than Sho' Nuff from Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon! And that's bad ass!
WHO'S DA MASTA??
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