If you think you know the story... You don't know the man.
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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“Is 50 Cent the best thing in Get Rich or Die Tryin'?”
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- tmdb28039023on TMDB · Sep 20221/10
Get Rich or Die Tryin' reminds me of the apocryphal Chinese curse 'may you live in interesting times'. The most interesting thing that has happened to Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson is that he has been shot nine times; accordingly, not only the character he plays, Marcus 'Young Caesar' Greer, but also a lot of other people get shot in this movie. Most of them survive, though, so even this turns out to be not so special after all. As for the second most interesting experience in Fifty’s life, this actually happened to someone else: 8 Mile, the vastly superior film starring Eminem and released three years prior. The problem is that 8 Mile is a story about humility, while GRoDT is about arrogance; the title alone exudes hubris, and the fact that it shares its title with a 50 Cent album makes us think that the inflated ego is not limited to the character, but it affects the star as well. Unlike Em, who didn't play himself but played someone very much like him in particular and a real human being in general, Marcus Greer is not so much a fictionalized version of Jackson as 50 Cent's idea of 50 Cent. Young Caesar is the larger-than-life figure that Curtis Jackson desperately wants to be, to
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Cast
- 50 CentMarcus
- Joy BryantCharlene
- Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeMajestic
- Omar Benson MillerKeryl
- Terrence HowardBama
- Viola DavisGrandma
- Ashley WaltersAntwan
- Tory KittlesJustice
- Marc John JefferiesYoung Marcus
- Sullivan WalkerGrandpa
Crew
- Jim SheridanDirector
- Terence WinterWriter
- Declan QuinnDirector of Photography
- Gavin FridayOriginal Music Composer
- Quincy JonesOriginal Music Composer
- Maurice SeezerOriginal Music Composer
- Roger BartonEditor
- Conrad Buff IVEditor
- Jim SheridanProducer
- Renata AdamidovProducer
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