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7 Things that were very WRONG about Notorious.

posted 15 years ago by RShaBazzEMS2002
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7. Angela Bassett's accent: It's public knowledge that Biggie's mother is Jamaican-American and has a very strong accent and I absolutely love Angela as an actress but the accent was all wrong in certain scenes it was stonger than in others. In my personal opinion Viola Davis woud have been more believable as Mrs. Wallace.

6. Faith Evans: The actress who played did the role of playing Faith some justice however we all know that in real life when Biggie and Faith met she wasn't petite like the actress who played her. The producers had 2 chocies on how to handle this either they could've told the actress to gain like 20 pounds or put some booty pads or something to make her look heavier.

5.The Sex Scene: First of all what the hell?! Why did the director feel it necessary to put the scene in there? It was distasteful no one wants to see petitie Lil Kim's boobs and Biggie's stomach fat juggling all over the place. It was completely unnecessary perhaps a tasteful love scene between him and Faith(considering she was his wife) would've been better.

4.Product Placement: I can't pinpoint how many times I saw products or things that were around AFTER he passed away. Exmples evryone knows that Air Jordans came out in the early 90s not the late 80s but for whatever reason the younger Biggie in the movie sees someone who has a pair on. Then ceratin cars in some scenes weren't even made and manufactured years until after his death as well as certain brands of clothing.Producers do your research.

3.Lil Kim and Biggie: There was way more to their relationship then what was portrayad in that damn movie. I guess the fact that Kim got pregnant by him but was told by him to abort the baby becuase it would mess up her career didn't mean anything to the producers. Also Kim had no real issues with Faith contrary to what was portrayed in the movie.

2.Tupac: Now as a big Tupac fan I was utterly disgusted and disturbed to find out of all people Anthony Mackie was chosen to portray the legendary Tupac shakur. Well he looks nothing like him, didn't portry his mannerisms well and they made him out to be this ultraparanoid backstabbing rapper which he wasn't.
They made complete mockery out of him and disrespected his image. I didn't buy it.

1. The Notorious B.I.G.: A round of applause to Jamal Woodard for his portrayel of Biggie however that's the ony positive thing I'll say to that.Now we all know that his mother executive produced the picture what I can't seem to agree with was why he was portrayed to be some damn saint? He disrespected every single woman in the picture and besides rapping he just smoked and slept around, they make him look so good and downplay Pac during the whole East Coast/West Coast stuff yet he makes a few phone calls at the end apologizing and trys to play a good father figure and I'm supposed to buy that? Well we all know the truth. They did way too much sugarcoating for me to believe it.

Shockingly I did enjoy the movie as a whole but I'm very big on honesty and sadly little of it was in this film. Anyone who agrees and disagrees share what you think as well I'm curious to know

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[–] MrsMonroe74 15 years ago

7&6 I agree with completely.
rofl@#5, I thought that sex scene was SEXY!!!!! wonder if they were trying to sey the relationship wasn'nt that deep. purely sexual? but I don't care-it was SEXY!!!!!

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[–] blkhrt430-1 15 years ago

5) I think they did that raunchy sex scene to show just how tasteless the relationsip between BIG & Kim was. There was no tenderness like when he was with Faith so it sums up his feelings for each of them.

3) according to Faith's book she & Lil Kim actually physically fought twice. Once in Bad Boy studios when Faith was pregnant & then again when Faith showed up unannounced at Biggie's place & caught Kim in the bed with him. Supposedly that night Kim also slashed Faith's tires. There was also another incident where Kim was prank calling Faith's phone & telling her to come outside to fight. Kim also did an interview years ago saying how faith came up in the studio trying to 'get' her & how she supposedly ended up 'getting' Faith instead. I want to say it was in Sister 2 Sister.

Lets not forget that Charlie Baltimore was also heavily involved with him & by Faith's account was actually living in Big's NJ home when he was murdered but in the movie they didn't even mention her.

1) Most people act differently around their mother's than they do around other people. That was how SHE saw him. I heard on the Russ Parr show that his mom was trying to reach out to Kim bc of they way the movie portrayed him treating Kim. As far as the phone calls to the baby mommas in Faith's book she said that those calls were made to her & Jan asking them to send the kids out to Cali with his mom so they can spend time together. Don't know about the call to Kim.

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[–] LadyLovie 15 years ago

faith was an idiot to fight while she was pregnant.

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[–] micguevara 15 years ago

As far as #4 goes,Air Jordans were out long before the early 90's then were first around 1985,i didnt even see any of thoes int he movie,but i did see AF1's which came on in 82'

[–] jagjoint 15 years ago

you are absolutley correct about the air jordan shoe line. there may have ben a different line in the 90's but the red/back, and white/red/black jordans were around in the mid-80's.

[–] nestafan2 15 years ago

3.Lil Kim and Biggie: There was way more to their relationship then what was portrayad in that damn movie. I guess the fact that Kim got pregnant by him but was told by him to abort the baby becuase it would mess up her career didn't mean anything to the producers. Also Kim had no real issues with Faith contrary to what was portrayed in the movie.

Like someone mentioned, in Keep the Faith, Faith says that she and 'Lil Kim basically couldn't stand each other. Yes, Kim got pregnant by Big, but that in no way means their relationship was deep.

4.Product Placement: I can't pinpoint how many times I saw products or things that were around AFTER he passed away. Exmples evryone knows that Air Jordans came out in the early 90s not the late 80s but for whatever reason the younger Biggie in the movie sees someone who has a pair on. Then ceratin cars in some scenes weren't even made and manufactured years until after his death as well as certain brands of clothing.Producers do your research.

Jordans came out in 1985. I remember dudes in the 'hood getting killed over those shoes.

As far as #1, most biopics will show some of the person's redeeming qualities.

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[–] LilKSweezy 15 years ago

I thought the sex scene was hot, actually.

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[–] micaofboca-1 15 years ago

These players is so much harder than the way they be represented here it smells like some Hollywood $hit up in your funk and the way that $hit phux things up. I know they be selling it to wideass audiences and they think softening things up sells to young kids and the majority of Americans, but it sho nuff' messes a biography up somethin' nasty. It's like George Clinton said on "P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up) by Parliament" when he said, "Yo, When I was down south, I heard some funk with some main ingredients like Doobie Brothers, Blue Magic, David Bowie. Oh, It was cool, But can you imagine Doobie in your funk? Ho! This $hit Doobie in your funk.