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3 | The feature debut of writer/director Creator/SpikeLee, ''She's Gotta Have It'' is a 1986 romantic comedy-drama starring Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Lee himself, about a woman seeing three men at the same time. Many people know of it from the early Nike [[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan Air Jordan]] commercials, which featured Lee as his character Mars Blackmon. |
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5 | It was [[Main/TheRemake remade]] as a 2017 [[Series/ShesGottaHaveIt TV series]] on Creator/{{Netflix}}, with Lee serving as executive producer. |
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7 | !!This film contains examples of: |
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9 | * BigApplesauce: The film is set in 1980s Brooklyn. |
10 | * CasanovaWannabe: |
11 | ** Mars Blackmon. |
12 | ** The below mentioned OverlyLongGag has several men who fit this trope. |
13 | * CreatorCameo: Creator/SpikeLee as Mars Blackmon, a role he reprised in a series of Nike Air Jordan commercials. |
14 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: Save for one color scene, the film is entirely in black and white. |
15 | * EveryoneIsBi: Opal, Nola's lesbian friend, claims everyone is sexually flexible, though they usually settle on a preference (as she has). |
16 | * IncompatibleOrientation: Opal hopes that Nola will be open to have sex with her, but it doesn't work, despite Nola's curiosity about being with a woman. |
17 | * {{Jerkass}}: |
18 | ** Greer Childs is a [[StayInTheKitchen misogynistic]], [[BoomerangBigot ethnically self-hating]], chauvinist prick. |
19 | ** All the other male leads have their moments too, with Jamie [[spoiler:raping Nola]] and saying that he liked it, and Mars calling her a freak. |
20 | * LipstickLesbian: Opal is long-haired, wears nice dresses and jewelry, while being attracted to her friend Nola as a self-declared lesbian. Funnily enough, Nola (who's aggressively straight) is more butch, slightly, with her short hair and less feminine dress style. Jamie's surprised that Opal's a lesbian because her style doesn't [[ButchLesbian fit the stereotype]], but then admits this is silly after Opal notes lesbians can look like anything. |
21 | * MinimalistCast: Only six characters are in two or more scenes. |
22 | * MrFanservice: Jamie is a handsome man, whose muscular torso's shown frequently while having sex with Nola. |
23 | * MsFanservice: Nola has multiple scenes in which she's topless or undressing, including sex scenes, while she's very good-looking. |
24 | * NoFourthWall: Nola and other characters to a lesser degree address the audience directly multiple times. |
25 | * OffscreenBreakup: [[spoiler: By the end of the movie Nola dumps Mars and Greer to commit to Jamie, but in the final scene she reveals that she couldn't stand monogamy and their relationship collapsed.]] |
26 | * OverlyLongGag: |
27 | ** The scene of several men giving [[CasanovaWannabe hilariously bad pick-up lines]]. |
28 | ** Also the scene of Greer, anticipating intercourse with Nola, taking a ridiculously long time to undress as he slowly and neatly removes each garment, folds it, and sets it aside. |
29 | * RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Near the end of the movie, Jamie, who spends most of the movie as a DoggedNiceGuy, rapes Nola when he gets fed up with her having multiple relationships with other men. It's coupled with some quick-cuts to Mars and Greer doing the same thing, which appear when Jamie asks Nola if they've ever done this before, which seems to imply that it has.]] |
30 | * ReallyGetsAround: Nola is seeing three men at the same time while the events of the film occur, causing most of its drama. [[spoiler:At the end she has tried and failed to have a monogamous relationship dating Jamie.]] An ex-roommate of hers says they stopped living together as she grew annoyed at how many men Nola had over all the time. |
31 | * ShoutOut: For Nola's birthday surprise, Jamie tells her to [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "Click your heels three times and repeat after me: 'There's no place like home.'" After she obliges, the film suddenly goes from black-and-white to color.]] |
32 | * TerriblePickUpLines: There's a montage of bad pickup lines including the classic "Baby, you're so fine, I'd drink a tub of your bath water." |
33 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Side character Opal is a lesbian in an otherwise straight cast. |
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