Trailer – “GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up?” (Learn The Game)
Attention-grabbing title, certainly; but it’s probably not quite what you think it is.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up the political documentary, GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up?, directed by William Arntz (What the Bleep Do We Know!?) and E. Raymond Brown, for an October theatrical release.
Based on E. Raymond Brown’s novel Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up: Peeping the Multi-leveled Global Game, the film uses interviews, staged scenes, and satire to shed light on how the interplay between pimps and prostitutes is simply a variation of the power dynamic that exists in broader social, political and corporate relationships we all experience.
As the synopsis reads: “From the street to the boardroom, from the Hood to the Oval Office, its the same. The only difference is that while the street Pimps wear colorful clothes, and the streets Ho’s wear little at all, their corporate/government counterparts hide behind marketing slogans and slick double talk to effect the exact same thing… The basic tenet of GhettoPhysics is that the interplay between the Pimp and the Ho is the simplest expression of the fundamental way that people interact in the world… looking at the world through the Pimp/Ho dynamic… it becomes very easy to see the manipulations that keeps society’s Ho’s forever in debt, disempowered and marching off to war.”
We’re all players, right? And as the saying goes, don’t hate the player, hate the game. GhettoPhysiccs, the documentary, hopes to expose “the game.”
Director Arntz’s last work, 2004’s documentary What The Bleep Do We Know!?, was something of a sleeper hit, playing in theaters for an entire year, thanks to strong word-of-mouth and “strategic marketing,” raking in about $10 million at the box office. I didn’t see it. Let’s see if this one is just as successful.
GhettoPhysics features interviews with Dr. Cornel West, Ice-T, KRS-One, Too Short, John Perkins, Norman Lear, and others.
Here’s it’s trailer, which gives little (it needs to be recut, me thinks):
