This was like From Dusk Till Dawn meets The Blues Brothers ("We're getting the band back together").
Arthur Fields
2025-07-28 06:32:10 +0000 UTC
1. Cooglar, Ludwig and MBJ seem to be one of the best trifectas for movies out there!
2. Wooden $ / fake $ worked as vouchers. It was plantation money. So plantation owners could get away with paying sharecroppers so little for their labor. And at the same time, more than 1/2 their earnings couldn’t be used anywhere else in the country, leaving black families in an oppressive state- unable to financially afford to move away.
3. Annie is likely practicing Hoodoo. There were/are multiple African spiritualistic practices, many of them dealing w/ancestral connection. Her prayers were made tangible and placed in the mojo bag Smoke wore. Unfortunately she didn’t think to make one for herself. 😭
I’d also like to clarify that Voodoo is African spiritualism mixed most often w/Catholicism. White religious people warned that it was devilish / evil bc of its African roots. Some people do practice it but have abandoned the Voodoo name due to this bad connotation.
Montae Williams
2025-06-23 00:00:49 +0000 UTC
Great reaction. Cujo clean up your damn room son. Your on camera
Kim Cottingham
2025-06-22 10:01:05 +0000 UTC
im so excited to watch this (for the 20th time) w you guys! ive been obsessed since i first watched, its soo good. the acting, the music, the shots, the story. also soo happy to see hoodoo in media/art and an almost fully black cast 😭
Mickey Ross
2025-06-22 08:14:26 +0000 UTC
Before my mom's side of the family moved up North some time in the 60s, my maternal grandmother's people were from the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta region, and my maternal grandfather's family is from Louisiana, so this movie just reminded me of stories I would hear from my grandparents and that side of my family. Blues music is considered the first truly American invention, and its roots in the Mississippi Delta region are legendary. I like that this movie is just as much about the Blues and Black culture as it is about vampires. Ryan Coogler did such a great job capturing the spirit of our people. I adore this movie deeply, and as a Black American in New York, I am very proud to be from the South.
By the way, Annie called them "haints," but she means "haunts." My Paw Paw says "Hainted" when he means "haunted." The money people were using was "fake money" and useless in other parts of the country but during Jim Crow, many Southern states still used plantation money called plantation scrips. White landowners distributed them during Jim Crow to continue to oppress Black people and remove our financial autonomy.
Also, Bo and Grace are Delta Chinese, and the dancer you saw in the part where Sammie was singing is a Peking Opera performer and not a geisha, which is Japanese.
Older Sammie is played by legendary Blues musician, Buddy Guy. He inspired other icons like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.