Chris Rock - Bring The Pain
by Keith Truesdell
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Actor: Chris Rock, Monteria Ivey, Nelson George, Tony RockDirector: Keith Truesdell
Brand: Uni
Producer: Chris Rock
Writer: Chris Rock
Editor: Brian Schnuckel
Producer: Michael Rotenberg
Producer: Sandy Chanley
Producer: Tom Bull
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 58 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Dreamworks
Product features:
- 1 Bring The Pain--HBO Co. 2 Chris Rock Interview w. 3 No Sex 4 Champagne 5 Bad Phone Sex Format: DVD AUDIO Genre: MUSIC DVD Rating: NR Age: 600445040090 UPC: 600445040090 Manufacturer No: 0044504009
Movie Reviews of Chris Rock - Bring The Pain
Movie Review: Though Very Funny, This is Hardly a Strict Comedy Concert
Summary: 5 Stars
In the HBO Special that finally made Chris Rock a bonafide star, despite his brief run on Saturday Night Live, BRING THE PAIN, is definitely one of the funniest DVDs I have ever watched, but still comedy is hardly the subject of this DVD. Instead, this is a social commentary from the mind of a man who looks at American culture with a fresh perspective: total honesty.
In some ways Rock in this DVD is less like a comedian and more like a lion tamer, as he struts across the stage, nervously taking jabs at his mostly African American live audience, who react with boos and horror as he airs their dirty laundry in the front yard of white America.
For example, he questions how DC mayor Marion Barry was reelected after he smoked crack on camera while in office and appeared at the famed Million Man March. "Even in our finest hour, we got a crack head on the stage," Rock taunts.
Yes, the audience laughs, but as you watch this DVD you can feel the tension between Rock and the audience that is further enraged when Rock starts talking about how he hates the black criminals (Rock uses the n word) who ruin everything half way decent about life in black neighborhoods.
These people (again he uses the n word) want credit for something a normal man just does. "Hey I take care of my kids," Rock claims these people boast. "You're supposed to take care of your kids. Whaddya want a cookie?" Rock asks as he repeatedly explains that he's tired tired tired of these black criminals.
What's interesting about BRING THE PAIN, is that Rock is masterful at controlling the audience. Just when you think everyone will leave DC's Tacoma theater in disgust over his taunting, Rock changes gear and begins to seduce them with other realities of life in America.
Rock mentions that black people make up on 10% of the population of the US and that except for a few of the so-called Chocolate Cities (DC, New York, Gary, Chicago, etc) the rest of the country is made up of "broke ass, mayonaise sandwich eating white people" on welfare. For this reason, Rock refutes the perception that black people were horrified by the welfare reforms of the mid 90s. "Black people don't give a s--- about welfare. But n-----s are shaking in their boots."
Likewise, Rock also taunts the white liberal HBO audience that is undoubtedly equally as horrified by the potshots he takes at lefty icons like Hillary Clinton and his understanding of why OJ had to slice Nicole's head off. "Ain't nobody above an ass whupping. There's a good reason to kick an old man down a flight of steps, just don't do it," Rock explains.
In BRING THE PAIN, Rock blames the entire Clinton-Lewinsky debacle on the ex-presidents's wife Hillary who Rock claims should have been the first one on her knee to take care of her husband's needs.
Yes, obviously BRING THE PAIN is crude at times and at every turn delivers the kind of politically incorrect language that in polite society would never be tolerated from a speaker of a different color. But still I would show this DVD to my grandmother and recently screened it for an 88 year old woman who loved it.
I loved BRING THE PAIN so much that I purchased ten copies of it and gave it as Christmas gifts to my most sophisticated friends.
- Regina McMenamin
Summary of Chris Rock - Bring The Pain
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