Greatest movie scenes ever # 40

In 2021 it's vaguely possible some young upstart will appear in an issue of Cahiers du Cinéma with the hypothesis that Paul W.S. Anderson & Milla Jovovich's Resident Evil franchise was the noughties equivalent of Jerry Lewis' fifties oeuvre which CdC championed back in the sixties, (though, from here on in the series should be referred to as a trilogy since Resident Evil : Apocalypse is just so awful that the only sensible option is to just pretend it doesn't exist), but why wait another decade to kickstart your admiration at the behest of a Frenchman when you can cosy up to the franchise which gave us the unforgettable sight of Ashanti getting pecked to death by mutant crows who'd been gauging themselves on infected flesh inside a bus right here, right now? It was that noted cinematic expert Chino XL who first brought the narrative arc of black ppl in horror movies to our attention back in 1996, but the grissly death woven around Ashanti's Nurse Betty character in Resident Evil 3 : Extinction was the sort of career move nobody foresaw when she was breaking records in 2002 & 2003 as the first artist since The Beatles to have three songs in the Billboard Hot 100 in the same week with her throwback Uptown-era Mary J. r&b jams, and movies should always be about surprises, right?



Nurse Gladys Emmanuel ain't never have this trouble with her pet Budgie. Our fictitious Cahiers du Cinéma scribe of the future might point out that this set-piece was such a blatantly obvious homage to The Birds that you'd think it was directed by Hitchcock's most famous imitator Brian De Palma rather than a couple of hacks like Milla J's husband and Highlander 2 : The Quickening's - and we use the term loosely here given that it's still one of the most incoherent movies we've ever seen - director Russell Mulcahy, but since this is a blog which is primarily concerned with rap related minutiae the question that's begging an answer is this : Where the hell were Cadillac Tah and Black Child when Ashanti really needed them?

BONUS BEATS :

Ashanti ft. Ghostface - Rain On Me remix (2003)



If one of rap's purposes is to make you feel like you're standing under a waterfall in a linen suit getting blown by a mermaid (and even it's rowdiest practitioners like Mystikal and M.O.P have joints which serve this purpose), then the modus operandi of rap & bullshit jams like the Rain On Me remix with Ghostface is to convince the listener that they're standing under that very same waterfall but wearing a pair of XXXL dungarees with one strap hanging off screaming "ALL WE NEED IS A STAGE, GOD!!!" up at the Heavens. This was far preferable to that official remix with Charli Baltimore, Ja and him from The Outlawz with the missing teeth.

I'd only got this remix on that Ghostface r&b remixes bootleg EP so my whigga hooked me up with an MP3 via the Kay Slay & Ghostface No Pork On My Fork Volume One mixtape he has. Step tells me he once read a Drama King interview talking about how he doesn't shout as much on his r&b 'tapes as he does on his rap 'tapes because 'n*ggas dont wanna hear it when they're with their girl' so this features distinctly less bellowing about "BITCH ASS DJ'S!" and the like.