{"id":3652,"date":"2025-12-06T23:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shirscribe.com\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2025-12-06T23:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:37:35","slug":"thoughts-on-the-90s-rom-com-classic-boomerang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shirscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/thoughts-on-the-90s-rom-com-classic-boomerang\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on The 90s Rom-Com Classic, Boomerang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are spoilers here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoomerang\u201d was like the first black romantic-comedy I think I\u2019ve ever seen. Of course there was \u201cComing to America\u201d before it, also by Eddie Murphy, but that movie felt more like a comedy with some romance in it, rather than a full-fledged romantic comedy. \u201cBoomerang,\u201d on the other hand, zeroed in more on the complexities, the uncertainties, delusions and ambiguities along with the undeniables that make the joy and the heartbreak that relationships are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was twelve when this movie came out. I didn\u2019t see it in theatres, so I probably saw it on VHS or cable TV. I remember not liking Robin Givens character Jacqueline. I always rooted for Angela, Halle Berry\u2019s character, because she was nice and sweet. I thought of her as a \u201cgood girl.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think part of the reason I didn\u2019t like Jacqueline was because Robin Givens played her, and as a kid I didn\u2019t like Robin Givens. She sort of had a bad reputation in the media in the 80s and 90s. They painted a picture of her as this gold digger who was manipulating Mike Tyson. A big to-do was made over that interview that she and Mike did with Barbara Walters where she talked about the domestic violence she suffered from him while he sat there still and quiet like a deer in the headlights. In my youthful naivete, I believed the reputation that was associated with her. The fact that she was playing a character in this film that used a man for sex, didn\u2019t help matters any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know when the changed occurred, but by the time I was in my early twenties, I had gone from disliking Jacqueline to admiring her. She had a great job, she was sophisticated, she was pretty, and most importantly, she didn\u2019t fall victim to someone like Marcus, played by Eddie Murphy, who had all the accoutrements of a man who could make a woman weak \u2013 handsome, charming, successful, funny, oh and I can\u2019t forget good in bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I got older, I went from feeling sorry for him, to enjoying how she flipped the script on him. Even though Marcus was finally able to break free of the metaphorical grip she had on him, and her ego undoubtedly was bruised, ultimately, he was no loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last few years I\u2019ve been hearing this term for women who\u2019s\u2026let\u2019s just say the Samantha from Sex and the City type. Perhaps she was married, got divorced and went through a \u201csexual revolution,\u201d or she\u2019s never been married and just entertained a number of gentlemen callers in her day, the term I\u2019m hearing in these internet streets is that she\u2019s considered \u201cran through.\u201d And apparently men don\u2019t want women who are \u201cran through.\u201d But the gag is, as Keke Palmer would say, women don\u2019t want men who\u2019s \u201cran through\u201d either (or at least they shouldn\u2019t\u201d) and Marcus was ran through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s funny how men want to do their dirt and then settle down with a \u201cgood girl.\u201d I mean nobody\u2019s perfect, we all make mistakes, and deserve forgiveness. But one thing\u2019s for sure, it\u2019s riskier for a woman to develop a serious relationship with a man like that. The last thing you need is to be married for two years only to have a baby mama show up at your door with a 10-year-old and you don\u2019t even have kids yet.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of a \u201cgood girl,\u201d that\u2019s how Angela was framed and I never thought anything of it. That is until recently when I was reading the comments under a clip from the movie and someone mentioned how Angela did David Alan Grier\u2019s character dirty. I was like wow, I never thought of that<\/em>, but now that you mention it, I guess it\u2019s true. Angela seemed to be into Marcus ever since that party where we were introduced to Strang\u00e9 and yet she still went out with his friend \u2013 ruthless. Even though she came off as sweet and altruistic, volunteering with those kids and all, she still had her bad side\u2026then again, we all do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is, by the way, a pet peeve of mine in movies. I\u2019ve seen this motif in several romantic comedies, that frankly I find disgusting. I mean sometimes it\u2019s not even friends, sometimes it\u2019s family: I\u2019m thinking \u201cSomething\u2019s Gotta Give\u201d and \u201cThe Mirror Has Two Faces\u201d to name a couple. Hell, even \u201cComing to America\u201d had the sister interested in the same guy. I don\u2019t know if that is to create more tension, as if losing somebody you want to someone else doesn\u2019t cause tension enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I guess this was kind of deceiving as there wasn\u2019t a particular scene that I liked in this movie, but rather a standout character, Jacqueline, that I thought was interesting. I think I was much more interested in what makes a woman take on these characteristics that\u2019s more often associated with a man. I explore that to some extent in the movie script that I\u2019ve written which also features a workplace love triangle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But yeah, overall \u201cBoomerang\u201d is a favorite for the great storytelling\u2026oh and a bomb ass soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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