{"id":23852,"date":"2015-01-21T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=23852"},"modified":"2015-01-21T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T14:15:26","slug":"james-brown-jump-salty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/movie\/2015\/01\/21\/james-brown-jump-salty\/","title":{"rendered":"~JAMES BROWN . . JUMP ‘SALTY’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘GET ON UP’.<\/p>\n

@BLACKLIVESMATTER . . .<\/p>\n

why aren’t CHADWICK BOSEMAN and BRANDON SMITH . . . strutting their stuff at the awards shows – this season ?!!!<\/p>\n

except for the one lone lame performance – DAN AYKROYD, dialing it in, or on delusion tablets . . and the one white guy in the film, wouldn’t you just know . . trying to play an ole school music biz agent – his performance never even hits barely acceptable, you cringe in embarrassment every time he gets screen time, yes THAT BAD !!
\nbut otherwise – ‘GET ON UP’ – is on high gear . . 100%.
\nCHAD BOSEMAN and BRANDON SMITH totally inhabit their roles with astounding abandon and sheer absolute talent. <\/p>\n

as a portrait of a real life artist – whose roots stretched back to dark deep south gospel, whose music shook the world and whose business smarts were just as astute – ‘Mr. BROWN’ to all, harsh twists and sad turns and all – can’t be beat.<\/p>\n

it makes me truly .. . ‘jump salty’.
\nhuge omission – terrible snub. a sorry situation . . beyond the beyond of any reason, just a bunch of old white geezers way past their expiry dates – blowin’ it for everybody else.<\/p>\n

SO: what a great expression: JUMP SALTY . . meaning “to become suddenly angry”.
\nSalty old sea salt – started off as term for those tough old birds that lived their lives on the salty, briny sea, but then in 1930 the African American streetwise wise-guys played a neat twist on the word – and came up with: JUMP SALTY !!
\ndamn, wouldn’t you know it. jump and salty – crazy brilliant.<\/p>\n

I know all this cool salty stuff – because the mighty straight-talking word master . . BEN ZIMMER wrote a wonderful essay on ‘SALTY’ (and @blacklivesmatter !!), its usage and roots – in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, this past Sat JAN 17, 2015.<\/p>\n

definite, check it out: BEN ZIMMER – on ‘SALTY’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

the film’s somewhat wimpy edit, going for the dumbed-down mainstream but still pumping terrific music – TRAILER . . . <\/strong> comes across slightly soft, as in leaning towards OPRAH W and ‘THE HELP’ – as opposed to as downright SALTY !! the film is in its entirety. but this is movie is no ‘THE HELP’ – and in fact, #blacklivesmatter . . where is the brilliant ‘GET ON UP’ – director . . TATE TAYLOR<\/strong> in the awards action, either ? <\/p>\n

ok, so he did in fact direct ‘THE HELP’, but trust me he crossed the hyper-vivid color line with this<\/strong> one. guess they should have circulated more press photos of TATE TAYLOR . . arm-in-arm with MICK JAGGER ?<\/p>\n

definite, check out the: ‘GET ON UP’ – TRAILER <\/a><\/p>\n

definite, check out: ‘GET ON UP’ – THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE<\/a><\/p>\n

ONE, TWO, THREE – LET’S . . DO IT !!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nscreenshot from the trailer, the sequence shot in the early deep south gospel church was . . transfigurative. wow, TATE TAYLOR really gives you a vivid peep through that . . strange powerful window.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nBRANDON SMITH – as LITTLE RICHARD. I could play that priceless cameo in my head til my dying days. hold onto that crazy thought !! <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nCHADWICK BOSEMAN does not just bring the real Mr. JAMES BROWN to life, he is<\/strong> the real – Mr. Brown, to you !!
\nthere is no stopping this guy.<\/p>\n

on Oscars night, people should just flood their screens with this movie, in protest.
\nradiant, illuminating, and . . salty !!
\nalmost to the point of religious . . ecstasy.
\nyeah, that BEAUTIFUL, that rockin’.<\/p>\n

except for DAN AYKROYD. like I said, MICK JAGGER – wtf ?
\nlocked into a contract ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘GET ON UP’. @BLACKLIVESMATTER . . . why aren’t CHADWICK BOSEMAN and BRANDON SMITH . . . strutting their stuff at the awards shows – this season ?!!! except for the one lone lame performance – DAN AYKROYD, dialing it in, or on delusion tablets . . and the one white guy in the film, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23852"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23865,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852\/revisions\/23865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}