TUPAC GRIDLOCK D MOVIE
The fun of the movie lies in the way that Roth and Shakur manage to seem feverishly alive amid all this manic-depressive running in place. Curtis Hall has caught the bottom-feeder enervation of heroin addiction - the fact that most of it consists of shooting up, nodding out, talking about scoring, going out to score, and then starting the whole business over again. Still, if the setup is facile, what follows has a bombed-out authenticity. But from the moment Stretch and Spoon reach the street, with Cookie lying in limbo, the two men are such raggedly ill-disciplined lowlifes - at times, they seem like homeless derelicts - that I never really bought them as quasi-professional musicians. They play together, live together, sometimes even sleep together. As it turns out, the three are partners, members of a bohemian spoken-word/jazz trio. They drag her to the hospital and go off into the night, numb but shaken, determined to change their lives. Gridlock’d opens with a jolt: On New Year’s Eve, Stretch (Roth) and Spoon (Shakur), holed up in their garbage-strewn loft, discover that Cookie (Thandie Newton), the slinky beauty they’re with, has overdosed herself into a coma. Making his debut as a filmmaker, Curtis Hall, an actor himself ( Chicago Hope, William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet), shows a gift for back talk and confrontation, for the hardscrabble comedy of urban decay, and for an electric storytelling style that sometimes shades off into B-movie glibness. Gridlock’d doesn’t have the imaginative vision of a movie like Trainspotting, yet it’s more literally true to the haphazard torpor of the junkie life than anything we’ve seen on screen since Drugstore Cowboy. Desperate to get into rehab, they’re tossed from one ugly fluorescent-lit government office to the next, a comedy of urban errors that escalates in insanity when the police mistake them for killers. As Gridlock’d goes on, the two have run-ins with cops, drug dealers, gangsters, and a welfare bureaucracy so rusty and sclerotic you’d call it Kafkaesque were there any real design to it. Written and directed by Vondie Curtis Hall, the movie, set in the squalid backstreets of Detroit, is a vibrantly gritty lower-depths comedy, a tale of hapless junkie thieves, played by Shakur and Tim Roth, who bum around the city like a couple of alley cats, torn between their desire to score and their desperation to kick. But Gridlock’d, which he completed two months before his death in a still-unsolved shooting incident last September, proves that he had the dynamism and flair of a major screen actor. Here’s the photo, I just found it recently so I thought I’d share it with his fans online.We’ll never know if Tupac Shakur could have been a movie star. I was only there for a short time but from what I saw he seemed like a real cool dude, real funny, real humble. But at the time they was unheard of and unreleased. Most of these tracks later ended up on the makaveli bootlegs. They said it was for their upcoming Outlaws Immortal LP and that they was just finishing up songs for the soundtrack to the movie. That same day Samuel Jackson came to his trailer and was trying to show him a script for this movie “187” but they wouldn’t let him in the trailer.Īfter Pac left to go to a scene, I stayed to listen to some of the music the Outlawz was playing. And that since getting out of jail it had been hard getting any acting roles in Hollywood and that now he was gonna show how much of a hard worker he was. He said “those were the best days of my life,” and that he was glad to be working on the movie. I told him I been a fan since his Digital Underground days. He said “after i eat my buffalo wings.” He was high as F**k but he let me have an autograph. When I delivered the food I asked him for his autograph. When I arrived on the back-lot he was surrounded by a huge entourage of actors, rappers, family, bodyguards, assistants, etc you name it, they were all there, his whole crew.
I had just got a job working at Domino’s Pizza on West Avenue and somebody put in a order for large quantities of food (I think it was Suge Knight) and I was the one who got to deliver the food to his trailer. Anyway, I happened to meet him through pure luck.
I remember the day clearly, it was the afternoon and the weather was hot as hell. I met Tupac while he was filming Gridlock’d.
Rare Story About 2Pac on the set of Gridlock’d by a Fan Rare Story About 2Pac on the set of Gridlock’d
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