It’s disguised itself as a trashy, fun exploitation flick but Black Snake Moan is credible morality tale about damaged people helping and healing each other.
I’m not saying it isn’t also trashy exploitation pic, Christina Ricci does after all, spend most of the movie half-naked and chained to an elderly blues man’s heater.
What Writer/Director Craig Brewer has done is layer in all that deeper stuff, the kind of material usually reserved only for courting Oscars, beneath the giddy, guilty pleasures of a down and dirty Southern Gothic veneer.
Brewer’s movie is not without minor flaws, but it erases them by being completely unique. You’ve never seen anything like it, and I can’t imagine anyone duplicating it. The film is sex and soul in equal measures; sensationalism and bad taste harnessed for noble purpose.
In a strange twist of irony, Black Snake Moan also seems to have something to good to say about religion. The movie’s a big bomb of sensuality and southern grit. Brewer seems to relish mucking around in genres that other respectable filmmakers wouldn’t dare touch.
His last movie, Hustle & Flow, was about a sympathetic pimp. This one is about a white woman finding freedom by letting a black man chain her to his radiator. I can’t wait to see what he does next.
Read the full review at CinemaBlend.com
Christina’s Nudity Awakening on Black Snake Moan
Playing a chained-up, half-naked nymphomaniac in her new movie BLACK SNAKE MOAN helped Christina Ricci overcome her prudish nature, because now she parades around in her underwear all the time.
The former child star had to face her fears of baring almost all for the film and decided the best way to get comfortable with revealing scenes was to wear nothing but lingerie at all times – even after cameras stopped rolling.
Christina Ricci has told of how she was going to quit acting if she didn’t get the lead role in her new movie Black Snake Moan.
“What I meant was that it so seemed like what I should be doing that, if I didn’t get it, I would have no idea of what it was that people wanted me to be doing in this industry and what I was supposed to be doing,” she explained. And her vibrant audition for the character of Rae, a messed-up woman with a disturbing past, clinched the deal. Christina joked: “Nobody can freak out quite like me!”
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I will see this movie. It sounds great and the reviews have been kind, do you know what the black snake refers to?
It’s the name of an old blues song,
That Black Snake Moan
by Blind Lemon Jefferson
recording of circa June 1926, Chicago, Illinois
from Blind Lemon Jefferson (Milestone 47022), copyright notice
I – I ain’t got no mama now
I – I ain’t got no mama now
She told me late last night, “You don’t need no mama no how”
Mmm, mmm, black snake crawlin’ in my room
Mmm, mmm, black snake crawlin’ in my room
Some pretty mama better come and get this black snake soon
Ohh-oh, that must have been a bed bug, baby a chinch can’t bite that hard1
Ohh-oh, that must have been a bed bug, honey a chinch can’t bite that hard
Ask my sugar for fifty cents, she said “Lemon, ain’t a child in the yard”
Mama, that’s all right, mama that’s all right for you
Mama, that’s all right, mama that’s all right for you
Mama, that’s all right, most seen all you do2
Mmm, mmm, what’s the matter now?
Mmm, mmm, honey what’s the matter now?
Sugar, what’s the matter, don’t like no black snake no how
Mmm, mmm, wonder where my black snake gone?
Mmm, mmm, wonder where this black snake gone?
Black snake mama done run my darlin’ home
Christina Ricci and Sam Jackson talks about the menaing in these video clips respectively,
http://metroencoding.net/clients/paramountclassics/bsm/022007/blacksnakemoan_sb-ricci-meaning-of-bsm_480×360.mov
http://metroencoding.net/clients/paramountclassics/bsm/022007/blacksnakemoan_sb-jackson-meaning-of-bsm_480×360.mov
If the quicktime clips don’t load, you’ll need to download them first. Enjoy.
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