The Hate U Give

It was a big star, yeah.

But it feels like unless it's something like The Hunger Games or Twilight or The Hate U Give or The Fault in Our Stars, they don't have that ubiquity.

They have their niche audience, but beyond that, me and Caitlin read a lot of books each year.

We had never heard of the source material, so that says a lot.

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Oh, I'm excited 'cause, um, I have to talk about the movie that traumatized me, which is The Hate U Give.

Um, very different type of trauma 'cause it's a little too close to home.

But, uh, this is a film about this, uh, girl.

And then-

Yeah

... with the retrograde part of being like, wait, why, uh, why are we only talking about the woman when there is also a man in who has, like, done wrong in th- like Medusa's story or in the stories that, um, we see? Where does the sympathy lie? I think even in The Hate U Give, that was one of the frustrating parts where they started sympathizing the officer who shot the, um, the, th- th- the boy, and not neces- and then starting to paint him as a victim, not...

Yeah, starting to paint the cop as a victim while letting the victim, who actually all he did was grab a hairbrush, um, become villainized, putting the worst traits of him up front to somewhat justify, um, the cop's behavior.

He's, uh, staying in the Amazon business for One Night Out, which is a Prime original starring, uh, Hodge and, uh, Muni Masako from Sinners.

That'll be directed by George Tillman Jr., who did The Hate U Give, which is a movie I love.

That's a great movie.

It's a great movie.

She and Indie Navarette both have been in like a handful of like ba- like very small roles in other shows.

Uh, except for she's in, um, I think she's one of the major characters in The Hate U Give.

I think she's pretty-

I don't know what that is

... uh, she's, The Hate U Give it's, it's based off of a book.

It's, um, it's an acronym for THUG.

It's about a girl witnessing a police officer kill a friend.

Yeah, yeah.

... part of the curriculum.

So, um, there's a book called The Hate U Give, um-

I was just gonna mention that one when you said that topic-

Which was, you know, really-

the ripple effects are everywhere.

The source explicitly mentions Angie Thomas's 2017 blockbuster novel and the subsequent film adaptation, The Hate U Give.

Which was a massive cultural moment on its own.

Huge.

Yeah, we have to cover it.

This movie was written by Audrey Wells, who also wrote George of the Jungle, Under the Tuscan Sun, and The Hate U Give.

And she is an uncredited writer.

So she must have been doing rewrites on a ton of classic rom-coms like Runaway Bride, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Kate and Leopold.

Yeah, it's funny.

I remember reading, and I forget who the author is, but the book is called The Hate You Give.

It's a young adult novel and it shows the sort of difference in environment.

It's essentially about a that gets shot by police.