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* StageNames: Brown's legal name is Maria Jose Tonorio. [[TruthInTelevision As in real-life]], picking a more AwesomeMcCoolname moniker is routine for hip-hop artists.
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* StageNames: Brown's legal name is Maria Jose Tonorio. [[TruthInTelevision As in real-life]], picking a more AwesomeMcCoolname cooler moniker is routine for hip-hop artists.
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'''''Filly Brown''''' is a 2012 film directed by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos. It focuses on an up-and-coming [[Main/HipHop hip-hop artist]] of Hispanic heritage who struggles to find a shot at stardom while dealing with her working-class Los Angeles life, her mother sitting in prison. Performers featured in the movie include Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos, Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, Creator/JenniRivera, and Creator/GinaRodriguez.[[Note]]This is the first appearance of Latino acting veterans Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips in the same film since their roles in ''Film/StandandDeliver'', decades earlier.[[/Note]]
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'''''Filly Brown''''' is a 2012 film directed by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos. It focuses on an up-and-coming [[Main/HipHop hip-hop artist]] of Hispanic heritage who struggles to find a shot at stardom while dealing with her working-class Los Angeles life, her mother sitting in prison. Performers featured in the movie include Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos, Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, Creator/JenniRivera, and Creator/GinaRodriguez.[[Note]]This [[note]]This is the first appearance of Latino acting veterans Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips in the same film since their roles in ''Film/StandandDeliver'', ''Film/StandAndDeliver'', decades earlier.[[/Note]]
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* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: One of the [[AnAesop central aesops]] of the film is about trying to reach beyond your circumstances and accomplish what you dream of.
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* LowerClassLout: Brown has to deal with small-time jerks messing up her attempt to live her dreams.
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* SpicyLatina: [[PlayedWith The trope is played with]]. Brown is highly attractive young woman with a fiery inner strength about her, but her brash determination is justified by her situation and portrayed sympathetically. She's also not portrayed as a sex object; the focus is on her lyric-writing skills and vocal talents.
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* SpicyLatina: [[PlayedWith The trope is played with]]. Brown is highly attractive young woman with a fiery inner strength about her, but her brash determination is justified by her situation and portrayed sympathetically. She's also not portrayed as a sex object; object from the viewpoint of the audience; the other characters in the film that think of her as such get portrayed as jerks. The focus is on her lyric-writing skills and vocal talents.
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** Case in point: the music producers on the film assisting Rodriguez with her performing. They go by the names ''Silent Giant'', ''E-Dub'', and ''Koolaid''. Rodriguez [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/ later remarked,]] "They gave me a safe haven."
* OvershadowedByControversy: Oh, boy, this one has it in ''spades.''
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** Case in point: the music producers on the film film, assisting Rodriguez with her performing. They performing, go by the names ''Silent Giant'', ''E-Dub'', and ''Koolaid''. Rodriguez [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/ later remarked,]] "They gave me a safe haven."
* OvershadowedByControversy: Oh, boy, this one has it in ''spades.''''
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'''''Filly Brown''''' is a 2012 film directed by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos. It focuses on an up-and-coming [[Main/HipHop hip-hop artist]] of Hispanic heritage who struggles to find a shot at stardom while dealing with her working-class Los Angeles life, her mother sitting in prison. Performers featured in the movie include Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos, Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, Creator/JenniRivera, and Creator/GinaRodriguez.
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'''''Filly Brown''''' is a 2012 film directed by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos. It focuses on an up-and-coming [[Main/HipHop hip-hop artist]] of Hispanic heritage who struggles to find a shot at stardom while dealing with her working-class Los Angeles life, her mother sitting in prison. Performers featured in the movie include Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos, Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, Creator/JenniRivera, and Creator/GinaRodriguez.
Creator/GinaRodriguez.[[Note]]This is the first appearance of Latino acting veterans Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips in the same film since their roles in ''Film/StandandDeliver'', decades earlier.[[/Note]]
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** Case in point: the music producers on the film assisting Rodriguez with her performing. They go by the names ''Silent Giant'', ''E-Dub'', and ''Koolaid''. Rodriguez [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/ later remarked,]] "They gave me a safe haven."
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While the film received mixed reviews, Gina Rodriguez's role as the title character picked-up significant praise, and she wound up winning the Imagen Award for Best Actress.
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* StageNames: Brown's legal name is Maria Jose Tonorio. [[TruthInTelevision As in real-life]], picking a more AwesomeMcCoolname moniker is routine for hip-hop artists.
* OvershadowedByControversy: Oh, boy, this one has it in ''spades.''''
* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Brown comes from a working-class Hispanic family living in Los Angeles.
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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Brown comes from a working-class Hispanic family living in Los Angeles.
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* ParentalAbandonment: The protagonist's mother is a repentant criminal behind bars who wishes that she could've provided a much better life for her family than she actually did.
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* ParentalAbandonment: MissingMom: A form of this is a major driver of the film. The protagonist's mother is a repentant criminal spending time behind bars who wishes that she could've provided a much better life for her family than she actually did.
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'''''Filly Brown''''' is a 2012 film directed by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos. It focuses on an up-and-coming [[Main/HipHop hip-hop artist]] of Hispanic heritage. Peformers heritage who struggles to find a shot at stardom while dealing with her working-class Los Angeles life, her mother sitting in prison. Performers featured in the movie include Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos, Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, Creator/JenniRivera, and Creator/GinaRodriguez.
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* RealitySubtext: Actress and singer Gina Rodriguez grew up in Chicago immersed in [[Main/HipHop hip-hop culture]], interacting with local rappers and eventually trying song-writing when she moved to [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York, New York]] for college. Not too long afterward, the creators of the movie cast her [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/ as the titular character of ''Filly Brown''.]]
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* ParentalAbandonment: The protagonist's mother is a repentant criminal behind bars who wishes that she could've provided a much better life for her family than she actually did.
* RealitySubtext: Actress and singer Gina Rodriguez grew up in Chicago immersed in [[Main/HipHop hip-hop culture]], interacting with local rappers and eventually trying song-writing when she moved to [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York, New York]] for college. Not too long afterward, the creators of the movie cast her as the titular character of ''Filly Brown''.
* SpicyLatina: [[PlayedWith The trope is played with]]. Brown is highly attractive young woman with a fiery inner strength about her, but her brash determination is justified by her situation and portrayed sympathetically. She's also not portrayed as a sex object; the focus is on her lyric-writing skills and vocal talents.
**"When I got the script and finished reading it, I knew it was for me. She was strong and fierce with a chip on her shoulder. She was this beast of a woman," Rodriguez [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/as the titular character of ''Filly Brown''.later remarked.]]
* RealitySubtext: Actress and singer Gina Rodriguez grew up in Chicago immersed in [[Main/HipHop hip-hop culture]], interacting with local rappers and eventually trying song-writing when she moved to [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York, New York]] for college. Not too long afterward, the creators of the movie cast her as the titular character of ''Filly Brown''.
* SpicyLatina: [[PlayedWith The trope is played with]]. Brown is highly attractive young woman with a fiery inner strength about her, but her brash determination is justified by her situation and portrayed sympathetically. She's also not portrayed as a sex object; the focus is on her lyric-writing skills and vocal talents.
**"When I got the script and finished reading it, I knew it was for me. She was strong and fierce with a chip on her shoulder. She was this beast of a woman," Rodriguez [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/
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'''''Filly Brown''''' is a 2012 film directed by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos. It focuses on an up-and-coming [[Main/HipHop hip-hop hip-hop artist]] of Hispanic heritage.
heritage. Peformers featured in the movie include Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos, Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, Creator/JenniRivera, and Creator/GinaRodriguez.
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The somewhat obscure movie sadly provides a case of OvershadowedByControversy. First, six months after its limited release both producers and distributors of the film got hit with a pair of lawsuits (alleging that production ignored basic contract rules). One of the suits asserted that the filmmakers never even forged a formal acting agreement with a principal cast-member. Second, actress and singer Jenni Rivera tragically died in a plane crash before the movie's major release.
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The somewhat obscure movie sadly provides a case of OvershadowedByControversy. First, its distribution was handled by a firm called the Indomina Group that ran into financial trouble and got the film passed on to Pantelion after the former company folded. Second, six months after its the limited release of ''Filly Brown'' both its producers and its distributors of the film got hit with a pair of lawsuits (alleging that production ignored basic contract rules). One of the suits asserted that the filmmakers never even forged a formal acting agreement with a principal cast-member. Second, Third, actress and singer Jenni Rivera tragically died in a plane crash before the movie's major release.
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The somewhat obscure movie sadly provides a case of OvershadowedByControversy, as OvershadowedByControversy. First, six months after its limited release both producers and distributors of the film got hit with a pair of lawsuits (alleging that production ignored basic contract rules).
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* RealitySubtext: Star Gina Rodriguez grew up in Chicago immersed in [[Main/HipHop hip-hop culture]], interacting with local rappers and eventually trying song-writing when she moved to [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York, New York]] for college. Not too long afterward, the creators of the movie cast her [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/ as the titular character of ''Filly Brown''.]]
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* RealitySubtext: Star Actress and singer Gina Rodriguez grew up in Chicago immersed in [[Main/HipHop hip-hop culture]], interacting with local rappers and eventually trying song-writing when she moved to [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York, New York]] for college. Not too long afterward, the creators of the movie cast her [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/ as the titular character of ''Filly Brown''.]]]]
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* RealitySubtext: Star Gina Rodriguez grew up in Chicago immersed in [[Main/HipHop hip-hop culture]], interacting with local rappers and eventually trying song-writing when she moved to [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York, New York]] for college. Not too long afterward, the creators of the movie cast her [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/ as the titular character of ''Filly Brown''.]]
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* RealitySubtext: Star Gina Rodriguez grew up in Chicago immersed in [[Main/HipHop hip-hop culture]], interacting with local rappers and eventually trying song-writing when she moved to [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York, New York]] for college. Not too long afterward, the creators of the movie cast her [[http://www.indiewire.com/2013/04/futures-newcomer-gina-rodriguez-on-learning-to-rap-for-filly-brown-and-acting-opposite-the-late-jenni-rivera-39359/ as the titular character of ''Filly Brown''.]]
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