2023-08-07 15:31:35
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Politically incorrect in a refreshing way, They Cloned Tyrone, the blaxpotation comedy-mystery thriller starring John Beyoga, Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris, is streaming now on Netflix.
Frankfurt – Jamie Foxx always causes a stir. Born on December 13, 1967 as Eric Marlon Bishop in Terrell, Texas, the full-blooded artist, who in 2005 was the third African-American actor ever to be awarded an Oscar for his performance as singer Ray Charles in the biopic “Ray”, most recently did things beyond film sets and Hollywood premieres Headlines: In July 2023, the father-of-two daughters opened up on his Instagram regarding going “through hell and back” in the same year; At times he did not know whether he would survive the illness, which he did not specify in more detail. According to media reports, Foxx had been treated at a “rehab facility in Chicago” specializing in “strokes and brain injuries” from the end of April.
At the beginning of August, the “Djanjo Unchained” hero caused outrage with another post that has since been deleted, especially among the Jewish community: “They killed this guy named Jesus. What do you think they will do to you?” He also included the hashtags #fakefriends and #fakelove. He was then accused of having made anti-Semitic comments, which he firmly rejected a little later: “To be clear: I was betrayed by a fake friend and that’s what I meant by ‘her’,” emphasized the actor, who in 2005 was the same for three Golden Globes (“Collateral”, “Redemption”, “Ray”), of which he won one (“Ray”), now posting once more: “I only have love in my heart for everyone. I love and support the Jewish community. My deepest apologies to anyone I have offended.”
As for the acting, you can count on Jamie Foxx once more
And following his recovery, you can count on him once more as an actor: On June 14, he wowed audiences at the American Black Film Festival with his participation in the blaxploitation comedy mystery thriller “They Cloned Tyrone”, which he co-produced, which is now on Netflix is streaming. As Slick Charles (sic!) he plays a pimp whose best days are long gone. Nevertheless, he continues to live his extravagant lifestyle and wears expensive suits, furs and teased hair reminiscent of rock ‘n’ roll legend Little Richard, who died in 2020. Slick’s main breadwinner is Yo-Yo, a prostitute played by Teyonah Parris. And then there’s the drug dealer Fontaine (John Boyega), with whom he has a hate relationship and owes a lot of money.
Something is not only rotten in the state of Denmark, but also in her run-down neighborhood of The Glen, which is anything but a Scottish Baronial-style mansion. This becomes increasingly clear to the three as stranger and stranger things start happening around them every day. Would you like an example? It starts like a normal day in Fontaine’s life. One morning he wakes up, leaves the house, buys a liter bottle of strong beer and a pack of cigarettes in a small shop. He now wants to collect the debt from Slick, who currently lives in a motel. While Yo-Yo tells her pimp to get out of the horizontal business because an obviously insane white customer emasculated himself with a knife before her eyes, Fontaine finds some money. He is satisfied with that for the time being and leaves the two of them. He is suddenly shot dead in a parking lot by members of a rival gang.
The next day, the supposed dead man wakes up, buys – you guessed it, because the dealer says hello every day – in the little shop – a liter bottle of strong beer and a pack of cigarettes, then gets into his car. Again he drives to Slick. And now it’s getting exciting: He saw with his own eyes how Fontaine was shot the day before. Yo-Yo can also confirm this. She took care of his body following the shooting. When the three of them want to get to the bottom of the matter together, they end up in an underground laboratory where they not only discover all sorts of strange contraptions, but also clones of themselves! Everything indicates that the US government has its fingers in the pie and is conducting experiments on the black population of The Glen with the help of prepared food…
Juel TaylorTony Rettenmaier, Juel TaylorKen SengSaira HaiderJamie Foxx, John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, Kiefer Sutherland, David Alan Grier119 minutes
It’s been a long time since Black Cinema was so wonderfully politically incorrect!
“They Cloned Tyrone”, staged with a sense of style by director (and screenwriter) Juel Taylor (“Actors Anonymus”, 2017) with a pronounced penchant for bad taste, is many things rolled into one: A visual and audio feast for friends of conspiracy theories, but also a near-future film with excellent milieu descriptions of so-called “social hotspots” and plenty of crude sayings. While the extremely tough Teyonah Parris repeatedly launches full attacks once morest Jamie Foxx, who secretly loves her, and trims him down as a “Mc-Donald jerk in a second-hand suit”, he has a chatterbox that even puts Eddie Murphy in the shade simply has the best sayings ready. He casually dismisses other nosy nuisances who hinder their investigations: “We’ll split your wig in a moment and then you’ll only be half a nigga! Get rid of your pale ass, you wiped-out pseudo-Obama!” Foxx has long been allowed to do what Quentin Tarantino does in his films. He just throws the N-word around and, following initial hesitation, supports the extremely cool John Beyoga, known from three “Star Wars” films, on the underground expeditions, even getting philosophical: “White people explore caves . We don’t do anything like that.” Said and not done, because: “Why does it always have to be blacks once morest blacks? Blacks should support each other!”
It’s been a long time since Black Cinema was so wonderfully politically incorrect! The Afro-American director and self-proclaimed moralizer Spike Lee (“Malocolm X”, 1992), on the other hand, will certainly go on the barricades once more… Despite all his puns, “They Cloned Tyrone” has a serious background. The extremely realistically filmed locations, which resemble a B-movie just as much as a documentary due to the dark color palette dominated by earth tones by cinematographer Ken Seng (“Deadpool”, 2016), have long since been infiltrated by a white state apparatus that “makes black people happy wants to pacify ignorance and neutralize its revolutionary potential” (Jan Jekal in the “Berliner Zeitung”). This is what Kiefer Sutherland as Nixon (!) stands for in a striking supporting role. He might also have been called Trump or DeSantis.
Teyonah Parris © IMAGO
The wild ride through film history becomes specifically political, during which memories of Harold Ramis’ comedy “Groundhog Day” (1993) with Bull Murray come to life just as much as Don Siegel’s SciFi masterpiece “The Demons” (original title: “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, 1956) with Kevin McCarthy, but not. He’s always entertaining. “The proletarian has won,” said the German actor Alexander Sternberg (“Africa of all places,” 2010; “Love songs for subhumans,” 2012), who now lives in Los Angeles, at the beginning of the new millennium. True to this motto, Boyega, Foxx and Parris shoot their way to freedom to the sounds of an excellent hip-hop and jazz soundtrack. The audience is allowed to switch on his brain once more during the really amazing final sequence, which of course shouldn’t be anticipated here. And then you know who this Tyrone from the title is. (Marc Hairapetian)
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