- Award Snub: Upon the movie's release, speculation buzzed as to whether Chadwick Boseman's much-praised portrayal of James Brown would earn him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Didn't happen.
- Nightmare Fuel: Flashbacks showing a young James Brown retrieving himself a free pair of new shoes off the corpse of a black man who hanged himself.
- Tear Jerker: James and his mother's reunion. You can't help feeling for both of them...and James himself struggles not to break down, himself.
- James's singing of "Try Me" at the end, for Bobby and Vicki.
- It’s very tough to watch the movie since the two leads, Nelsan Ellis (Bobby) and Chadwick Boseman (James), died at such a young age due to a Heart Condition and Cancer respectively.
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