Get Rich or Die Tryin'

"If you think you know the story... You don't know the man."

2005 1h 56m EN

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A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

“If you think you know the story... You don't know the man.”

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Cast

50 Cent
Marcus
Joy Bryant
Charlene
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Majestic
Omar Benson Miller
Keryl
Terrence Howard
Bama
Viola Davis
Grandma
Ashley Walters
Antwan
Tory Kittles
Justice

Credits

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Director: Jim Sheridan
Writers: Terence Winter
Languages: English, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 21 years ago.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jim Sheridan, shot by Declan Quinn. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Maurice Seezer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Roger Barton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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50 Cent and Joy Bryant and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "If you think you know the story... You don't know the man.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0430308 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Jim Sheridan directs. Declan Quinn behind the camera. Maurice Seezer scores. Roger Barton cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Spanish.

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1Released 21 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.
3Directed by Jim Sheridan, shot by Declan Quinn. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Maurice Seezer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Roger Barton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
650 Cent and Joy Bryant and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "If you think you know the story... You don't know the man.".
8IMDB entry: tt0430308 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 8 themes, including "career", "street gang", "loss of loved one", "rapper".

The technical file

Cinematography: Declan Quinn
Original score: Maurice Seezer
Editing: Roger Barton
Production design: Mark Geraghty
Costume design: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
Runtime: 116 min · 1h 56m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $40,000,000
Box office: $46,442,528
Return: 116% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)

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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 the point that a modest 50 cents is not enough anymore; only a nickname that references arguably the most brilliant political and military mind history will suffice. This is unintentionally ironic because the protagonist is not the sharpest knife in the kitchen; for example, little Marcus's (Marc John Jefferies) mother is murdered, and the suspect is a "Rick James-looking motherfucker" (Leon, criminally underutilized), so Marcus keeps a photo of the Super Freak ever near him, because otherwise he would forget what her mother's alleged killer looks like? This is supposed to be a drama, a genre that the filmmaker, having directed My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, should know very well; on the other hand, the director also wrote those films, so the blame for this inexplicable faux pas falls squarely on the scriptwriter. The hero's Dickensian childhood was a cliché that 8 Mile could afford to skip because the dysfunctional interaction between Em and Kim Basinger told us everything we needed to know about it without the need for flashbacks narrated in Fifty’s uninflected monotone. Then again, the soundtrack includes a song called “Window Shopper,” which means a mandatory shot of little Marcus staring forlornly through a window at the sneakers he can't afford, while a couple of extras taunt him. The director surrounds Jackson with strong supporting cast (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Terrence Howard, the monolithic Bill Duke), but this is a double-edged sword; either they elevate Fifty to their level, or they completely overshadow him until he disappears, which is exactly what happens here. Now, if Jackson were any smarter or less selfish, he would have let Howard, still fresh from a similar role in Hustle & Flow, play the lead, instead of saddling him with the role of his trusty sidekick Bama. Nevertheless, Howard steals every scene he’s in (and has the best lines of dialogue; e.g., "Bama. Are you from Alabama?" "No, North Carolina." "Why do they call you Bama?” “I didn't want people to call me Lina”), including the best of them all: a revealing scuffle in a jail shower that preceded the Turkish bath fight in Eastern Promises by two years. The big difference is that Hustle &Flow is about a pimp who aspires to become a musician, while GRoDT is about a gangbanger who gets distracted too easily: “I had my own space and I could focus on my dream of being a rapper… After three hours, I quit my career as a rapper and went back to selling coke.” In other words, why make an effort when one is such a prodigy that, when imprisoned, the other inmates and even the guards know the lyrics to Young Caesar’s future chart-topping hits?

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