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* BigApplesauce: besides a few scenes in Omaha, Atlanta and Jamaica, the movie takes place in New York City.
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'''Belly''' is an 1998 American crime drama film, directed by music video director Creator/HypeWilliams, Hype Williams, to date his [[OneBookAuthor only feature film]]. Filmed in New York City, the film stars rappers Music/{{DMX}} and Music/{{Nas}}, the latter of whom wrote the story with Williams and Anthony Bodden. Taral Hicks, Method Man, and R&B singer [[Music/{{TLC}} T-Boz]] also star.
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* GutturalGrowler: Len Ox has a deep, grating voice, especially over the phone or two-way radio. Likely due to his excessive consumption of cannabis.
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The film begins in early 1999, with two young New York street criminals Tommy "Bundy" Bunds (DMX) and Sincere (Nas) violently robbing a club along with their associates in crime Mark and Black. Although they're ruthless, violent street gangsters, Bunds and Sincere both show signs of refinement and ambition. Sincere has become disillusioned with the street life, become enlightened to the plight of urban poor with the teachings of [[MalcolmXerox The Reverend]] and seeks a virtuous life outside of crime. Bunds, living in a high class loft with girlfriend Keisha (Taral Hicks), only really values money and possessions and never seems satisfied with anything.
The next day, Tommy overhears a news report of a new strain of heroin and sees it as a business opportunity. Sincere initially resists, but Tommy still convinces him to go along with the scheme: Purchase the drugs from Jamaican Kingpin Lennox (Louie Rankin); have Mark, Black, and Sincere transport them to Nebraska, where shifty friend Knowledge (Oliver 'Power' Grant) has set up shop; and transport the money back to New York, to split with Ox. Before the operation can get started, friction between Sincere and Black(lead along by a scheming Knowledge) leads Bunds to humiliate Black by forcing him to sit naked and watch them count money.
The plan works better than expected, between Lennox offering Tommy a discount (in exchange for a favor, of course) and Knowledge being a criminal genius with a crooked cop for a girlfriend, but local Omaha drug dealer Big Head Rico (Tyrin Turner) snitches to the police about the operation. Knowledge is arrested, Mark dies and Tommy is forced to go on the run, recruiting teenage gangsters Wise and La Kid to help him make money to pay back Lennox. After Tommy refuses to pay his bail, Knowledge calls in his friend Shameek (Method Man) to exact revenge on Big Head Rico, Bunds, and whoever gets in the way.
The film was generally praised for its highly stylized [[FilmNoir noir-like]] visual design and cinematography, it was criticized for poor screenplay and bad performances. Still, Belly is considered a [[CultFavorite hood classic]] and loved for a visual style that still seems fresh today, and its unapologetic look at street life in the 90s.
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!!'Belly' contains examples of the following tropes:
* BigApplesauce
CrowningMomentOfAwesome: the opening club heist. Also, Shameek [[spoiler:killing Big Head Rico and his boys, then stumbling outside and shooting a cop through their windshield without looking... All while being so drugged up he can barely see straight.]]
* EvilIsCool: Subverted. Nobody except Tionne and Sincere really seems too worried about the morality of being robbers and drug dealers, and the beginning robbery and the drug-dealing montage are both shot stylistically, as if to emphasize the coolness... [[spoiler:But by the end, the only characters not dead or in jail are the ones willing to leave the street life behind.]]
GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Bunds, Sincere, Mark, Black, Knowledge, Wise and La Kid form one of these. Also, Big Head Rico and his boys at the hair shop. Lennox is a Jamaican version[[spoiler:, as well as the Jamaican man he has Bunds kill]].
* DullSurprise: Somehow, filling a movie with rappers and singers led to a lot of bad performances. Of particular note is Nas, who wears the same blank expression and speaks in the same flat tone in every single scene. [[spoiler:Even after being shot.]]
* IdiotBall: Knowledge calling Tommy's house from jail and talking recklessly to Keisha, even though he KNOWS the house is probably under investigation (and says as much over the phone!) this gets Keisha arrested and sends Tommy on the run, when if he had waited Tommy might have had the money.
* LargeHam: Method Man as Shameek, especially playing the role of Ike Love.
->'''"Ike Love:"''' Is THIS Him? Is this the illest nigga in Nebraska? Is you 'bout it' bout it, fool?
* MalcolmXerox: The Reverend, who despite his appearance actually turns out to be a bit more of a MLK expy.
* OhCrap: Big Head Rico, when a drugged Ike Love name-drops Knowledge, the drug dealer he snitched on.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Sincere has lost his love for the street life, but has a family to take care of and won't pass on a good opportunity. UpToEleven with Tommy, who [[spoiler: [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior sells his soul as a child]] during the opening credits]].
PlayingAgainstType: Tyrin Turner is most well known for playing ruthless, masculine gangster characters like Caine in Menace to Society, so most people don't recognize him as the Omaha drug dealer/pimp/snitch/[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hair salon manager]] Big Head Rico. Once you DO recognize him under that perm, it's an EPIC CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* PoisonousFriend: Knowledge. Good at getting money, better at sowing mayhem. He's the reason Tommy spazzes out on Black, he calls Keisha from jail knowing that the phone is trapped (he even says it OUT LOUD TO KEISHA!), [[spoiler:sends Shameek after Tionne and Keisha to shake out Bunds or Sin (which gets Father Sha killed by an angry Keisha).]]
Shout-Out: [[spoiler:Lennox's last stand]] is a direct homage to Scarface.
The film begins in early 1999, with two young New York street criminals Tommy "Bundy" Bunds (DMX) and Sincere (Nas) violently robbing a club along with their associates in crime Mark and Black. Although they're ruthless, violent street gangsters, Bunds and Sincere both show signs of refinement and ambition. Sincere has become disillusioned with the street life, become enlightened to the plight of urban poor with the teachings of [[MalcolmXerox The Reverend]] and seeks a virtuous life outside of crime. Bunds, living in a high class loft with girlfriend Keisha (Taral Hicks), only really values money and possessions and never seems satisfied with anything.
The next day, Tommy overhears a news report of a new strain of heroin and sees it as a business opportunity. Sincere initially resists, but Tommy still convinces him to go along with the scheme: Purchase the drugs from Jamaican Kingpin Lennox (Louie Rankin); have Mark, Black, and Sincere transport them to Nebraska, where shifty friend Knowledge (Oliver 'Power' Grant) has set up shop; and transport the money back to New York, to split with Ox. Before the operation can get started, friction between Sincere and Black(lead along by a scheming Knowledge) leads Bunds to humiliate Black by forcing him to sit naked and watch them count money.
The plan works better than expected, between Lennox offering Tommy a discount (in exchange for a favor, of course) and Knowledge being a criminal genius with a crooked cop for a girlfriend, but local Omaha drug dealer Big Head Rico (Tyrin Turner) snitches to the police about the operation. Knowledge is arrested, Mark dies and Tommy is forced to go on the run, recruiting teenage gangsters Wise and La Kid to help him make money to pay back Lennox. After Tommy refuses to pay his bail, Knowledge calls in his friend Shameek (Method Man) to exact revenge on Big Head Rico, Bunds, and whoever gets in the way.
The film was generally praised for its highly stylized [[FilmNoir noir-like]] visual design and cinematography, it was criticized for poor screenplay and bad performances. Still, Belly is considered a [[CultFavorite hood classic]] and loved for a visual style that still seems fresh today, and its unapologetic look at street life in the 90s.
NeedsMagicWikiLove.
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!!'Belly' contains examples of the following tropes:
* BigApplesauce
CrowningMomentOfAwesome: the opening club heist. Also, Shameek [[spoiler:killing Big Head Rico and his boys, then stumbling outside and shooting a cop through their windshield without looking... All while being so drugged up he can barely see straight.]]
* EvilIsCool: Subverted. Nobody except Tionne and Sincere really seems too worried about the morality of being robbers and drug dealers, and the beginning robbery and the drug-dealing montage are both shot stylistically, as if to emphasize the coolness... [[spoiler:But by the end, the only characters not dead or in jail are the ones willing to leave the street life behind.]]
GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Bunds, Sincere, Mark, Black, Knowledge, Wise and La Kid form one of these. Also, Big Head Rico and his boys at the hair shop. Lennox is a Jamaican version[[spoiler:, as well as the Jamaican man he has Bunds kill]].
* DullSurprise: Somehow, filling a movie with rappers and singers led to a lot of bad performances. Of particular note is Nas, who wears the same blank expression and speaks in the same flat tone in every single scene. [[spoiler:Even after being shot.]]
* IdiotBall: Knowledge calling Tommy's house from jail and talking recklessly to Keisha, even though he KNOWS the house is probably under investigation (and says as much over the phone!) this gets Keisha arrested and sends Tommy on the run, when if he had waited Tommy might have had the money.
* LargeHam: Method Man as Shameek, especially playing the role of Ike Love.
->'''"Ike Love:"''' Is THIS Him? Is this the illest nigga in Nebraska? Is you 'bout it' bout it, fool?
* MalcolmXerox: The Reverend, who despite his appearance actually turns out to be a bit more of a MLK expy.
* OhCrap: Big Head Rico, when a drugged Ike Love name-drops Knowledge, the drug dealer he snitched on.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Sincere has lost his love for the street life, but has a family to take care of and won't pass on a good opportunity. UpToEleven with Tommy, who [[spoiler: [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior sells his soul as a child]] during the opening credits]].
PlayingAgainstType: Tyrin Turner is most well known for playing ruthless, masculine gangster characters like Caine in Menace to Society, so most people don't recognize him as the Omaha drug dealer/pimp/snitch/[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hair salon manager]] Big Head Rico. Once you DO recognize him under that perm, it's an EPIC CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* PoisonousFriend: Knowledge. Good at getting money, better at sowing mayhem. He's the reason Tommy spazzes out on Black, he calls Keisha from jail knowing that the phone is trapped (he even says it OUT LOUD TO KEISHA!), [[spoiler:sends Shameek after Tionne and Keisha to shake out Bunds or Sin (which gets Father Sha killed by an angry Keisha).]]
Shout-Out: [[spoiler:Lennox's last stand]] is a direct homage to Scarface.
