Let’s be Precious

Youra dummy. School ain’t gon help none.

I'm a homely Mariah Carey, with a little mustache. Still a better actress than JLo will ever be.

This is one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history. I don’t care what anyone says. It’s part tragic, part comedy and comments on such of contemporary American life— poverty, the obesity of epidemic, the commodification of fried chicken.

R2 Mariah Carey actually gave a brilliant understated performance in this. That was a competitive Oscar season. Had she not done Gigli she probably would have gotten an Oscar nod. However it wasn’t enough screen time to make academy members forget Gigli

What’s “Precious”, precious? What’s “Precious”?

Oops I don’t know that film. I meant Glitter.

I'm Joann. Hey. My favorite color is fluorescent beige. My ambition is to have my own record layer.

I hate my name.

Is this going to be another racist thread?

Monique’s level of acting in this scene is insane. Good lawd this shit like a documentary. And Mariah’s reactions were perfect. Lee Daniels is a brilliant director.

I’m the welfare. You need to go down to me.

I’m the creepy predatory straight guy that wants to hook up with the lesbian character.

I’m R9 ‘s ass looking at everything through the lens of Datalounge being a White Gays ONLY site. Talk about racism!

Is that a new microwave?

I can't watch stuff like that. Once I heard about the mom making Precious eat her pussy, I put this one on my never watch list. Plus really fat people gross me out.

Gabby shows she could have gotten an Oscar as well.

R16 it was ridiculous Sandy Bullock won that year over this

Any Lee Daniel fans. Check out Butler. Don’t let the Oscar snubs fool ya. It a very good, very well acted commercial film. Mariah Carey also has a cameo in the beginning; she plays the title characters mom who gets raped and then her husband, the butler’s dad gets shot in the head after he nonverbally calls out the owner’s son on the sharecrop planation in which they live.

Alex Pettyfer is so beautiful. He deserves a 2nd chance at stardom.

R18 is not Channing Tatum.

R17 I know. Gabby or Carey Mulligan should have won. It was a career Oscar though.

[quote] Alex Pettyfer is so beautiful. He deserves a 2nd chance at stardom.

This is a somewhat unusual question, and perhaps this is not the right place to ask it. Is there something particularly appealing or special to black people about Alex Pettyfer? I’ve seen posters who identify themselves as black on other entertainment sites who go gaga about Alex, in a way white-identified posters don’t seem to, despite his well-known difficult personality. He’s a white guy from the UK, so I don’t know why they would cream their panties particularly for him as opposed to, say, Glen Powell.

Because we blacks know beauty. You think we’d ever prop up someone like Timothy Chamalet. I believe Channing Tatum was hating on him. Team Alex.

Glen Powell is not good looking to me. He is not ugly obviously but does nothing for me and I’m usually partial to bro-ey white guys. He is plain Jane and it’s irritating that Hollywood is trying to force him down our throats as a sex symbol. Can he at least make another hit movie. He let that Tom Cruise success go to his head.

Hi M aka op aka let’s be troll

I thought you meant the dog from Silence of the Lambs, OP. Your post really does work for both.

In all the times I’ve seen this film I am just not realizing the visiting social worker is Robert Deniro’s ex Grace Hightower. And I know her. Not know her know her but am very familiar with her.

Just now* realizing. DL really needs a 5 minute edit feature. Cheap cunts.

R25 and like Precious the senator’s daughter is a great big fat person.

I'm the horribly depressing story. Normal people find it unbelievable that some human beings would be forced to live things like these. I know I do.

Mariah was amazing.

She could drop her pop star diva act and find her own Moonstruck.

I'm Gary talking Lucy out of playing Precious.

R18 Another good Lee Daniel's movie: The Paperboy (featuring butt-naked Matthew McC hogtied and handcuffed)

What really bothered me most about Precious was that there was no representation of ME.

I’m the class full of misfits.

I'm Paula Patton, the teacher who all the students admire but whose beauty they will never attain.

I'm the stolen chicken.

I’m wondering why dey so much hair on deez mahfuckin pig’s feet.

I’m stolen fried chicken

You be the thrown TV. I already claimed chicken.

I’m the tight floral leotard.

I hate R9

I'm the fricking short yet brilliant acceptance speech where Mo'Nique rightly said it shouldn't be about campaigning

I'm the internal thought of "My mom had her issues but at least she never made me go down on her"

I'm Tina Fey's generic title for this kind of film on "30 Rock":

"Hard to Watch."

Mary Jones is pure evil, and Mo'Nique played the villain so, so well. She deserved that Oscar.

I’m the “specific sexual and physical acts involving Precious” to which the Mariah Carey character was referring.

Im the bizarre fever dreams where precious imagines she’s famous

I'm the Latino meat that Precious desires… carnitas and that cute little Puerto Rican guy in the dream sequence.

I’m the milk that hadn’t dried up in Mary’s breastesses.

I love you, R49

I’m the feeling like you're becoming a grown woman 'cause of that shit you pulled in the kitchen. l should've fucked you up, but l let you walk away, and l let you come get yourself together.

I’m Mary giving Carl the tiddy, because the milk in her breastessess ain’t dried up yet.

I’m how Carl got it

I'm Mongo.

I know it's been commented above but Mo'Nique deserved that Oscar and any other acting award available to her that year. She struck gold with that one scene.

We see Mary's mom in one scene and she seems totally disapproving of her behavior but it's hard to believe that Mary's behavior didn't spring from things in her own childhood. Almost certainly she herself was molested and she says tellingly that she was only doing what her mother told her to do. After Precious says her mom won't see her anymore, it's almost like Mary has a flashback to the time Carl started molesting Precious and remembering the horror and confusion before she rationalized that in order to keep him, she had to let him continue molesting her.

R56 good analysis, great scene and Mariah was able to carry herself so well alongside Mo'Nique's masterclass and Gabi's amazing reactions

Most abusers, men or women, were abused too. Still not worthy of pity

The scene was surprising because Precious doesn't want Mariah to work with her anymore because she's aware that it was doing a number on her. Despite what she'd been through, she still had empathy. And I loved the moment at the end where Mary tries to get Miss Weiss to help her and grabs her only to have Weiss pull her arm back as if to say, "don't fucking touch me".

My ass is precious

Who are you, R60?

I'm the unfortunate bangs.

I’m the white girl in the mirror.

Thanks, OP. This is one of the most thoughtful threads I've followed in some time. Good topic with good posts.

I'm the four sizes too small black girl jeans.

[quote]Plus really fat people gross me out.

Avert your eyes then, champ. [punches r15 a little too hard in the arm]

R29 you know who else find its unbelievable that some people have to live through those things:

The victimized people going through it.

Tragedy happens in life. It’s a compelling depiction of tragedy and overcoming that without a neat happy ending. I don’t get what you mean by normal people. You would have to be socially retarded or an anarchist to think this was a way to live.

Can’t. Not fat.

I hate it when fats leave the house too. Double that if they're poor fats. Triple it if they're .......never mind.

R.69, how about femme and Asian?

[quote]Can't. Not fat.

??

I'm Precious's breast milk. I carry enough HIV to infect little Abdul Jamal and condemn him to a short and very painful life.

I'm the bucket of chicken (I cant believe no one has mentioned this high-larious scene yet

R73 It’s the 3rd comment. I made it.

[quote] I cant believe no one has mentioned this high-larious scene yet

R73, R3 mentioned it and linked it, and r36 , r38 and r39 mentioned it.

R75 I swear I skimmed and didn't see anything. My bad.

[quote] swear I skimmed and didn't see anything.

Well now you dp.

[quote] I swear I skimmed and didn't see anything.

Well now you do.

I’m “mafuckin”. Nobody in this movie says me.

R79 They’re New Yorkers, of course not.

You’re “from New York” and you font it ceaselessly.

I'm the chicken joint, curiously open early enough so that Precious could grab a bucket on her way to school in the morning.

I'm Lenny Kravitz at the male nurse, just as beautiful on the inside as he is on the outside.

I'm florescent beige

R82 one thing I miss about New York. How early things open and how late they close.

I wanted to add that in addition to Mary having been sexually abused as a girl, I think it's fairly obvious that Carl was regularly beating the shit out of her as well. Why did she quickly clam up when he told her to "shut her fat ass up" while he was molesting Precious. I could believe that Carl was not beating Precious and that caused more friction between her and Mary and in her sick mind, she decided that his lack of beatings was proof that he preferred their daughter to her.

R86 in other words.."Has pussy..must defend"

chicken places in black neighborhoods never close.

Glenn Powell looks like skeletor with flesh stretched over bone, No muscle or fat.

Is he in precious?

R89 Are you in the wrong thread?

R89 is Mongo.

Poor Precious. All she ever had was food to soothe. Even that she had to steal. What a life of deprivation. All that padding to buffer her against the grim world and all of its punishments. Was this story based on a true story? If it’s fiction, well… no humiliation is spared. Was it ghost written by Uncle Bottom?

Precious's mother asking Precious to "Come take care of mama" is what got her running out of her home to get that bucket o chicken. She was all, nope, gonna have me some chicken today, not my mama's hairy cooter.

[quote] I'm Lenny Kravitz at the male nurse, just as beautiful on the inside as he is on the outside.

I’m that character’s predatory nature and creepiness.

I"m gonna tell Stephanie on you, junior.

The only thing I know about this movie was the parody of 30 Rock and when Garfunkel and Oates made that parody song running with chicken.

R97 please share it. I would love to see it.

R98 here ya go.

Hmm that was weird. This should be it.

r99 thank you for unlocking a delightful early childhood memory!

R99 I’m hella confused. That came out in 1969.

Oh I see. Oh wow. Kinda funny.

OP began an interesting thread but it derailed at R97. If you're still interested, please post; we'd like to hear from you.

[quote]I’m that character’s predatory nature and creepiness.

I'm r95's odd take on Lenny Kravitz's character in the film.

I’m R105 who is ignoring the creep factor when he is asking about dating the teacher.