There was no way, he would have been interested in her. They had NOTHING in common. Stoney was way to negative towards him almost brushing him off, yet he kept trying to pursue her. He should have been more interested in Vivica Fox's character, they had more in common being from banks, and Vivica was more classier.
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I thought the exact same thing! The movie should have made some attempt to show Stoney as being a little more attractive and feminine, to make it seem like she was maybe in Keith's league....or just give them but one thing in common. To satisfy this minor annoyance during the film I just chalked the attraction to Keith having a hoodrat fetish.
shareAll of the women were hoodrats, which was a shame, because they didn't need to be. Why does the only black main character who has any kind of class or sophistication have to be a GUY?! (In a film that's primarily about four women, no less!)
... and don't tell me that if they weren't hoodrats then they wouldn't be robbing banks. People at the end of their tether do desperate things. (John Q. for example; again a guy.)
The film was good and enjoyable, but they had a big chance to give us some intelligent female characterisations for a change; only with the dialogue they gave them to speak, they blew it.
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I do not think Fox was a HoodRat . As a matter to me he showed her over coming what the hood , only to have been thrown back in there my people that did not care about her and judged her becuase of where she came from . Showing the cycle which some many people get stuck in . To me the only person that was really a hoodrat was Queens Character . Man even as a Mean Lesbian that woman still got my heart.
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Doubtless it's snobbish of me, but if she worked at a bank then she should've been shown as someone who was a cut above her friends in her social life, too...
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Stoney was a pretty girl. They all were pretty girls in their own ways, and if you can't see that, then that's your loss.
Calling them hoodrats doesn't diminish this movie or the actors and actresses in it, so if that was your best shot, then try again.
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Who said hood rats can't be pretty?
sharemaybe he was one of those guys that try to fix people. He saw her and thought that maybe he can help change her life. But as the movie goes on it seems that he wants her to empower herself to change and not have to rely on him or any man. He was kinda snobby towards her and she resisted. Maybe he was in it for the chase?
I also thought that maybe he wanted to reaffirm his own "blackness" through someone (Stony) that embodied what most people in 90s LA thought of blackness. Someone that comes from humble beginnings and being disadvantaged in our society for being black and a woman.
Naw, Stony was the right choice, for the time being anyway. Her character had something about her. He could see through that even though she was from the ghetto, she had more in her, she was intelligent and strong and had potential. He also knew that she was brushng him off because she knew that he's too good for her and she knew that in the long run their differences would come between them.
But if that were me though, I would've used him as a ticket way out of the ghetto, screw my friends, they would just bring me down.
I totally agree with you. This is what I think everytime I see this movie. With Keith, Stony probably would have ended up getting married, going back to school and having a wonderful family and life. And I do believe that keith saw past all the negativity associated with her life.
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I wish they stayed together at the end of the movie.:(
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I was actually wary of Blair's character throughout the movie. I mean, here's a single, good-looking guy. He wasn't married yet? He was just too Mr. Perfect. I wouldn't go out of my way to degrade Stoney. But they had NOTHING in common. Why wouldn't a man like that want to be with someone educated, and someone who has their own? Someone like-minded? I just never trusted that character.
shareI liked how they hooked up. It was so improbability, impossibility and incompatible nature and that is how that kind of attraction works. It comes up as an irony... making the pull even more. Plus, he could see potential in her....
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My mom always tells me that "men LOOOOVE challenges. They love the chase!"
So, as for her "brushing off", I think it turned him on.
Where from most women's perspective (excluding me), she'd think "Oh, what a b@%*h! She has a GOOD, 'decent' man trying to approach her and then she turns him away?!! WHAAAAT?!!"
All I thought though was that maybe he saw how pretty she was, and had thought she could've done better.
I mean, an attractive face is still an attractive face! The clothes someone with an attractive face wears can rarely change that.
The only thing I think that someone could notice that was unfeminine about Stony's (Jada Pinkett's) character was her initial style of dress, by eye. When she went on the date with Keith (Blair's character) she looked great.
So, maybe Blair's character was trying to get into Stoney's "softer", more vulnerable side.
I think because of her circumstances, she was hardened.
He saw how beautiful she looked, and wanted to get her insides to match her outer appearance.
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He character was the "take the girl out of the hood" type...which automatically takes it to the unrealistic point
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn..
ShilohJoliePitt, I'm going to share some info with you that is so solid that you could finance your house on it. When it comes to financially successful men, looks win out over background or "having something in common". For the record though, he never met Vivica Fox's character. Also, he didn't know Stoney was a janitor.
Granted Jada was not looking her best, but you have to remember this was a 90's movie and so styles were different. Notice he was able to get past her badly styled braids and just get her an acceptable dress for the office work party. Geting rid of the synthetic braids with the burnt ends would have surely been his next project.
Here we had a well-educated, successful, apparently open-minded, and single "brotha" who knew no bounds. I think he'd just go for what appeals to him regardless. Stoney was not dumb but tossed into a bad set of circumstances.
I'm going to leave anything I could say about your usage of "more classier" alone. Just because Frankie dressed in a suit, had a better hair-do, worked as a clerk in a bank, and spazzed out about her nails did not make her classier. If I had to rate them in order of classiness, I'd say Stoney, T.T., Frankie, and then Clean.
It is mainly people who need an other half to get by that are overly concernced with someone being equally yoked in every area but most importantly financially. Blair's character clearly was not in that type of position.
Thank you for posting this. This is by far the best response I've read on this thread, and I couldn't agree with you more.
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please i see this all time in real life. a friend of mine has masters degree making 6 figures no kids , she married a man with 3 kids by two women. its how a person makes you feel not what they have.
shareYea it seemed like when they went out to dinner he was almost making a fool of himself telling her of his travels and schooling which can be mistaking for showing off.
I don't think any successful self respecting guy would make an ass out of himself like that with a girl he clearly had nothing in common with.
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