(for real, i’m not birthing a silly princess obsessed girl). this is one of my favorite movies of all-time. spike lee, always gets it right. the star of this film is such an inspiration to me…LADYBUG! she reminds me of myself – being a little girl in the hood and having to be tough all the time. even her brothers in the movie were true to form…man, my brother must have mushed me in the head a million times. where is she now?!
i used her as inspiration for this VIOLETTE commercial:
November 30, 2008
The last thing I heard about Zelda, the actress that plays Troy is that she graduated from Princeton University. A friend of mines went to Princeton with her and I got to meet her when I went to a Black Arts Conference at Yale a few years ago and Spike Lee was the guest speaker. She had went up to him before he spoke (he didn’t know she was there) and then after he pointed her out to the audience. He stated that she made him feel like an old man since Crooklyn was filmed over 10 years ago and Zelda was like 9 at the time.
December 1, 2008
OMG YESSSS!!!!
I love this movie too! And Troy is the best…nobody likes to watch this movie with me because i know all the words lol
December 2, 2008
The commerical is not very creative…no shade!!
December 2, 2008
Love Crooklyn. I play it whenever people come over and want to watch something. But you totally missed the part when the boys threw the cat at the girls!
December 2, 2008
i agree, this is my favorite movie of all-time and zelda/troy was my heroine growing up. ;D if i could live in a movie forever, it’d be crooklyn.
great scenes, classic lines and very decent soundtrack.
oh & i’m with C@NDIC3…i cant help reciting all the lines when i watch it LOL
December 3, 2008
“peter rican hair” lol.
December 3, 2008
every little brown girl needs to see this movie growing up… classic
December 3, 2008
Word!
December 3, 2008
Wow, just thinking back to how much i really love this movie..
And how much she represented alot of us growing up
shits crazy..
Shout outs to Spike Lee on this joint!
December 4, 2008
another funny part is when she killed the dog
December 16, 2008
This was perhaps my favorite Spike Lee joint. My grandfather had passed away the summer before and it was crazy to watch her go through what I was going through. It wasn’t fully cathartic but it helped me cope a little. I love that the movie showed a real family going through real ish with class and a sense of dignity. One two three the devil’s after me…
August 28, 2009
Wow troy was my girl or ladybug!she had spunk i see in me as when i was growing up an what i also see in my own daughter..we all as lil girl can relate 2 troy..an i wish i can see how grown up she is now..im proud 2 no she further her education…thats good 2 hear that!