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A 2015 comedy movies directed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etan_Cohen|Etan Cohen] and written by Cohen, Jay Martel and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Roberts_(American_actor)|Ian Roberts]. The movie stars Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Tip 'T.I.' Harris, Alison Brie, and Craig T. Nelson. The stories of James King, a wealthy investment bank manager has been framed for a crime he didn't commit, and asks the man who washes his car, Darnell Lewis to help him prepare for prison.<ref name=":0">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Hard</ref>
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Get Hard is a comedy movie released in 2015 comedy. The movie is directed and written by Cohen. It tells a story of of James King, a rich bank manager who is about to be sent to prison for a crime that he did not commit. Darnell Lewis, the man who happen to wash his car, help him prepare for prison life.<ref name=":0">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Hard</ref>
  
 
[[File:Get Hard film poster.png|thumb|Get Hard film poster]]
 
[[File:Get Hard film poster.png|thumb|Get Hard film poster]]
  
== Plot ==
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==Plot==
James King (Will Ferrell) is an extremely wealthy hedge fund manager at Barrow Funds, run by Martin Barrow (Craig T. Nelson). He is engaged to Martin's daughter Alissa (Alison Brie). James has come to know Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart), who owns a small car wash service in the garage used by James. Darnell and his wife Rita (Edwina Findley) are trying to put their daughter Makayla (Ariana Neal) in a better school, away from the bad neighborhood they live in.
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James King, played by Will Ferrell, is a wealthy man working as a bank manager. One day, during an engagement party, the FBI arrive and arrest James for fraud, he was found guilty for a crime and is sentenced for ten years  San Quentin State Prison for a crime that he does not commit. During the journey, he is dumped by his fiancé.
  
During an engagement party for James and Alissa, the FBI arrive and arrest James for fraud and embezzlement. James' lawyer, Peter Penny (Greg Germann), urges him to go for a guilty plea and a likely short sentence, but James refuses and insists that he will be exonerated. Instead, James is found guilty and sentenced to ten years in San Quentin State Prison, with the judge (Elliot Grey) giving him 30 days to get his affairs in order. Though forbidden from crossing county lines, James wants to flee the country with Alissa, but she dumps him.
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A moment later, James meet Darnell who happens to be a person working in a place where he wash his car. Due to Darnell's skin color, James assume that he must have had been prisoned at least once during his life time. James then begs Darnell to help him toughen up by offering him $30,000 for his life in prison.
  
James encounters Darnell and, assuming he has been incarcerated before because he is black, begs him for help and agrees to pay him $30,000 to toughen him up for prison. Darnell, who has little idea of how to act tough, trains James by pepper-spraying him, trying to get him to develop a "mad dog" face, and creating scenarios in which James must defend himself, but all of these efforts fail miserably. During the training, James gets in touch with Martin and says he is getting help. Barrow, the actual crook, thinks James is onto him and orders a hitman named Gayle (Paul Ben-Victor) to monitor him.
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As the adventure goes on between the two guys, they manage to find the real criminal. Both of them then tries to capture the crook to prove that James is not guilty.<ref name=":0" />
 
 
With no sign that James is toughening up, Darnell figures that James should be prepared in other ways for prison and takes him to a gay hookup spot for James to learn how to perform oral sex in prison. James can't go through with it and tells Darnell that he will keep going and do whatever it takes to "get hard". James starts to work out harder and faster, makes shivs, and learns "keistering" (smuggling contraband in the anus). Darnell simulates a prison raid with help from James' domestic staff. In the chaos, James gets a shiv stuck in his head, so Darnell takes James to his home for Rita to treat it. He has dinner and listens to Darnell make up a story of how he went to prison, which is just a retelling of ''Boyz n the Hood''.
 
 
 
James and Darnell resolve for James to join a local gang called the Crenshaw Kings to gain protection in prison. However, Darnell's cousin Russell (T.I.), the gang leader, rebuffs James and redirects him to the Alliance of Whites gang. James is unable to be a convincing racist, leading the gang to think he is a cop, but Darnell rescues him by bursting in with a flamethrower.
 
 
 
Darnell and James finally deduce that Martin is the crook. They sneak into his office and find the embezzlement records on Martin's computer. Unfortunately, Gayle finds them and takes back the computer, while informing James that Darnell has never been in prison. Dejected, James returns to the Crenshaw Kings on his own. They accept him and order him to kill someone as their initiation. Darnell arrives in time to convince James to expose Martin. The two sneak onto Martin's yacht to retrieve the computer, only to come across Gayle and his men. James unleashes a series of capoeira moves on them before Martin and Alissa arrive, both confessing to the fraud and embezzlement, a scheme that also included Peter. They try to convince James to run away with them, but he turns them down and heads to a life raft with Darnell. When Gayle shoots the life raft, James pulls out a gun he had "keistered" and aims it at Gayle. U.S. Marshals suddenly appear, summoned by the ankle monitor that James triggered, having worn it past the county line.
 
 
 
Barrow's computer provides the evidence needed to clear James. Martin, Gayle, Alissa, and the henchmen are arrested and James is cleared of all charges. However, he ends up getting six months for holding an unlicensed gun, but thanks to Darnell's training, James is fully prepared, which Martin is not as he is quickly attacked by inmates when his San Quentin sentence with Peter begins. James spends his sentence helping the FBI retrieve all the assets that Martin stole, while guiding Darnell's investments so that he and Rita are able to open their own carwash. As Darnell drives James home after his release, James announces his intent to celebrate his freedom with a ''Wall Street Journal'' and a forty, which he now considers a perfect Sunday.<ref name=":0" />
 
  
 
==Controversy==
 
==Controversy==
The plot is about Hedge fund manager James King assumes that car wash business owner named Darnell Lewis has done time (being in Jail) , solely because the guy's black.<ref>https://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonwillmore/get-hard-is-one-big-ode-to-hipster-racism</ref> There is a scene where James King went to a neo-Nazi club suggested by Darnell, while parked outside of the headquarters, Darnell keeps pushing James to use a racial slur. The scene ends with James getting slapped.
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In the movie, James is stereotyping Darnell, who is a black person, has been in jail simply because of his skin color.<ref>https://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonwillmore/get-hard-is-one-big-ode-to-hipster-racism</ref>  
  
The film’s sensitivity to race isn’t much better. It sees King attempting to join a white supremacist fraternity at Darnell’s instigation, and then finally bonding with a black gang who he teaches the tricks of his trade: “The stock market is gangsta,” they conclude.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/17/get-hard-review-will-ferrell-adds-to-slew-of-gay-panic-comedies</ref>
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The film's affectability to race isn't greatly improved. It sees King attempting to join a white supremacist fraternity at Darnell’s incitement, at last having a bond with a black gang whom he teach about trade: ''“The stock market is gangsta,”'' they conclude.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/17/get-hard-review-will-ferrell-adds-to-slew-of-gay-panic-comedies</ref>
  
A quoted dialogue
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A quoted dialogue from the movie;
  
Darnell Lewis: You know what? I got something to say to you all since I'm guessing this is the first time you've been forced to listen to a black man. You know maybe you guys should just calm the fuck down. Black people ain't tryin' to hurt you. I mean technically I am right now but that's only because of what you were trying to do to the white guy. Think about that. Google "I Have A Dream" assholes.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2561572/</ref>
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'''Darnell Lewis:''' You know what? I got something to say to you all since I'm guessing this is the first time you've been forced to listen to a black man. You know maybe you guys should just calm the fuck down. Black people ain't tryin' to hurt you. I mean technically I am right now but that's only because of what you were trying to do to the white guy. Think about that. Google "I Have A Dream" assholes.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2561572/</ref>
  
 
On Q&A session after Monday night’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival screening in Austin, Texas, some audience told discomfort at the film’s broad gay and racial jokes, which some thought into racism and homophobia. An audience speak up and told the writer-director Etan Cohen: “As a fellow Jew, I’ve got to say that this film seemed racist as fuck.”<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/get-hard-new-hart-and-ferrell-comedy-accused-racism-and-homophobia-a131146.html</ref>
 
On Q&A session after Monday night’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival screening in Austin, Texas, some audience told discomfort at the film’s broad gay and racial jokes, which some thought into racism and homophobia. An audience speak up and told the writer-director Etan Cohen: “As a fellow Jew, I’ve got to say that this film seemed racist as fuck.”<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/get-hard-new-hart-and-ferrell-comedy-accused-racism-and-homophobia-a131146.html</ref>

Revision as of 13:57, 1 March 2021

Get Hard is a comedy movie released in 2015 comedy. The movie is directed and written by Cohen. It tells a story of of James King, a rich bank manager who is about to be sent to prison for a crime that he did not commit. Darnell Lewis, the man who happen to wash his car, help him prepare for prison life.[1]

Get Hard film poster

Plot

James King, played by Will Ferrell, is a wealthy man working as a bank manager. One day, during an engagement party, the FBI arrive and arrest James for fraud, he was found guilty for a crime and is sentenced for ten years San Quentin State Prison for a crime that he does not commit. During the journey, he is dumped by his fiancé.

A moment later, James meet Darnell who happens to be a person working in a place where he wash his car. Due to Darnell's skin color, James assume that he must have had been prisoned at least once during his life time. James then begs Darnell to help him toughen up by offering him $30,000 for his life in prison.

As the adventure goes on between the two guys, they manage to find the real criminal. Both of them then tries to capture the crook to prove that James is not guilty.[1]

Controversy

In the movie, James is stereotyping Darnell, who is a black person, has been in jail simply because of his skin color.[2]

The film's affectability to race isn't greatly improved. It sees King attempting to join a white supremacist fraternity at Darnell’s incitement, at last having a bond with a black gang whom he teach about trade: “The stock market is gangsta,” they conclude.[3]

A quoted dialogue from the movie;

Darnell Lewis: You know what? I got something to say to you all since I'm guessing this is the first time you've been forced to listen to a black man. You know maybe you guys should just calm the fuck down. Black people ain't tryin' to hurt you. I mean technically I am right now but that's only because of what you were trying to do to the white guy. Think about that. Google "I Have A Dream" assholes.[4]

On Q&A session after Monday night’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival screening in Austin, Texas, some audience told discomfort at the film’s broad gay and racial jokes, which some thought into racism and homophobia. An audience speak up and told the writer-director Etan Cohen: “As a fellow Jew, I’ve got to say that this film seemed racist as fuck.”[5]

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