2011 was a terrible year for me. I was fired from job a that I had been at for 16 years and the girl I was seeing was cheating on me and I moved out into an apartment the size of a breadbox. I was in a very bad place and developed insomnia and stopped sleeping. I had to stop taking my anxiety meds and worked part-time at a hardware store. I couldn't get motivated at all about my life.Then I saw the trailer for The FP and was immediately sold. I used money that I didn't have and bought it from the local video store.
This movie inspired me. It told me to pick myself up, dust myself off and get back to hustling. It made me go to work with a hurt back. It made me got to work with a fever and sweating profusely. It showed me intestinal fortitude that I didn't know was there. Especially after I was micro managed by a foul, cheating, sociopath that lost her mind when I didn't congratulate her about getting pregnant by a redneck with caterpillars for eyebrows.
It psyched me up when life would piss in my face. It made go all out and work harder than the 18-year-olds that I worked with.
That was seven years ago and I still go back to it for inspirations and to never be ignorant and getting goals accomplished, and I think it's high time that I wrote something about this masterpiece.
Trost doesn't slow down anything to over explain what's going on, he doesn't coddle the audience. You either get it or you don't or you watch it again with subtitles to catch all the subtle intricacies of this world's slang and over the top dialogue.
He took the Ben Marcus approach with world building through words. Only Jason Trost took it up a notch with his off color slights and descriptions. Ham sandwich. A certain rainbow wigged Clifton Collins Jr. calls Jtro's crew the insult. At first, the word brings up the imagery of the food about to be eaten or perhaps it's setting on a plate with potato chips, but in fact, the thug is calling them "basic" for not partaking in the black market pharmaceuticals.
Another example of word use, the antagonist refers to the hero as cranberry juice, which at first strikes you as odd but upon deeper inspection, the trash talking carries a weight to it. Drinking Cranberry juice helps with urinary tract infections, bladder infections, and aids with menstrual cramps. The use of this word is used to take jabs at his masculinity, toughness, and his overall health as well.
It's language building on par with Anthony Burgess, the writer of Clockwork Orange and the creator of Ulam, the language the Neanderthals used in the film Quest for fire. Burgess was a translator, linguist and lectured in phonetics and if he was alive today, he would nod in agreeance about Trost's cinematic opus.
It's creating a believable world by keeping the main character sane, while the others that populate it are turned up to eleven most of the time. And doing all this on a very small budget by Hollywood standards. But it's the character's dialogue, costuming and acting that made it feel immense. It made you daydream about the Frazier Park and the world beyond it.
When the Beat Beat game suddenly announces Omega gangster mode L Dubba E says quite frankly, "I don't give a fuck." while everyone is dumbstruck by the new mode that has been unlocked. It was as if the game suddenly came up with it unbeknownst to the players.
L Dub beats Btro just by sheer confidence alone. He is at a Zen level of "No fucks given."
Even the fellatio in the movie is a comment on our culture and how we are devolving our customs and formalities. It's as if these people that populate this world see it as an absolute pre-coital introduction. It's like how in our world, sexting has become the way things are in today's culture and no one bats an eye anymore when a risque picture is leaked. We are desensitized to wrong things.
People need to look deeper into this man and see what he's about. Past the evolved gangster rap vernacular. The FP is a film that isn't afraid to bleed for you and also it won't hold our hand and walk you through it.
