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What the eff happened to The Hughes Brothers? justjudith (check out her blog) not only leaves great comments, she brought up this great question as well.
To tell the truth, I had forgotten about co-directors the Hughes Brothers (Allen and Albert), which is weird, cause they were boiling hot in the 90's. Some of their movies are black film staples; Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, American Pimp, all made while still in their 20's. They had the best gimmick of being twins, and had a huge amount of charisma. I used to see them around, and even if you didn't know who they were, you could tell they were doing something big.
They made the Jack The Ripper/Johnny Depp film "From Hell" that was hugely anticipated, then just as hugely thrashed. I loved it though; it was an interesting take on the Jack the Ripper genre, and was one of the most visually arresting films I can think of to this date. After that they seemed to have fallen off the face of the earth.
No milk carton necessary here, though. After a quick look at IMDB I see the brothers have been working it out in television. After "From Hell" I can only imagine that their disgust with the Hollywood System far and away surpassed mine. I hope they come back.
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gracias! mutual blog luv! and i also enjoyed from hell. and while their movies weren't my favorites, they did stretch the genre. i mean, dead presidents was not easily categorized.
Have you read the original Alan Moore "From Hell" story? It was pretty damned good.
Dead Pres. was different; very dark. @Jay...I did read that it was based on a book, but I haven't read it. I have about 100 books to read waiting for me (literally) but all I seem to be doing is reading 100 blogs a day. Darn this blogsphere!
I think the last movie I saw from them was that pimp documentary, I think it was called "American Pimp", not sure though.
I think that was the last one.
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