Original subtitles

- [moaning]

[Tommy Genesis's "Daddy"]

♪

- Who made the beat, Charlie?

♪ He like me better with no makeup ♪

♪ Oh you wanna get it daddy

♪ Oh you wanna get it daddy ♪

♪ He call me daddy's little Geisha ♪

♪ Oh you wanna get it daddy

♪ Oh you wanna get it daddy ♪

♪ I'm makin' love with his face, uh ♪

♪ Oh you wanna get it daddy

♪ Oh you wanna get it daddy ♪

♪ Charlie gonna make the bass bump ♪

- Oh, shit.

- Yes, daddy.

- Yeah.

- Turn over.

- You turn over.

- I asked you first.

- I don't care.

- ♪ Let him smell the flower before he go down ♪

♪ Let-let him smell the flower before he go down ♪

♪ Catch me bouncing on my daddy ♪

♪ Bounce, bouncing on my daddy ♪

♪ If it's good then I'm yours ♪

♪ And I'm bouncing on my daddy ♪

♪ Wanna [...] up my makeup

♪ He put in work, no pay cut ♪

[music distorts] ♪ And he just wanna wake up

♪ Next to me and eat the cake up ♪

♪ Oh you wanna get it daddy

♪ Oh you wanna get it daddy ♪

- [groans]

[panting]

[grunts, mutters indistinctly]

[sighs, mutters indistinctly]

Alexa, play rain sounds.

- Playing rain sounds.

[rain falling, thunder rolling]

[gentle music]

♪

- ♪ Autumn everything falls out of order ♪

♪ Window through my window lift my heart up ♪

- It's not weird to enjoy anal penetration.

- I'm not saying it's weird.

I'm just I ain't never done no shit like that.

And I don't plan to.

- I think you're looking at the dream too literally.

- How am I supposed to look at it?

- Sex is about power,

and usually the person doing the penetrating

is the one in power.

- Well, in the dream, I was in power at first.

And then shit changed.

- Do you feel powerless in your life?

- Sometimes.

- When?

- You know, like, when I'm at work, right?

Victoria's always telling me what to do.

- I think a lot of us feel powerless at work.

Is there another time?

- When I'm with my mom.

- We've talked about her a lot.

- Yeah.

- Does Simone remind you of your mother?

- Nah.

- Are you sure?

She's powerful, she's smart, she's aggressive.

When's the last time you talked to your mom?

- About a month ago. - What'd you talk about?

- Work stuff.

- So you still only talk about work?

- What else is there to talk about?

- Didn't your mom help you get that job?

- Yeah, she wrote me a letter of recommendation.

- How'd that make you feel?

- It made me feel good.

- You don't think you would have gotten it on your own?

- I don't know. Maybe.

- You sound unsure of yourself.

- No, I've just never thought about it before.

- Sometimes power can be stripped away

without us even knowing it.

- I've always felt like

I loved my mom more than she loved me.

- Why is that?

- 'Cause I was never her priority.

- Are you a priority for Simone?

[Kojey Radical's "Water"]

- ♪ I'm sure you've heard this all before ♪

♪ Sure you look familiar

♪ Sure the cost of living keep on rising with no limits ♪

♪ Name a politician gave a [...] about your feelings ♪

♪ Name a single trend that didn't end up like a gimmick ♪

♪ Think there's something in the water ♪

♪ Tell me what the mission is, I see lead showers ♪

- Really, bitch?

- Technically, this is my parents' stuff,

so I'm not stealing.

- Uh-huh. - Come through shoes.

- Don't try to flatter me. What you doing here?

- I needed some stuff for my home office.

- Just 'cause you be at home all day,

that don't make it a home office.

- [scoffs] - How's the branding business?

- It's great. - So what's the game plan?

- Well, I'm reaching out to some of my contacts,

and hopefully I can set up a few meetings

with some managers, then I'm gonna try

and hit up some folks with big social media followings.

You know, get the ball rolling.

- So you don't have a game plan?

- No, not really.

- [chuckles] It's all right.

You'll figure it out. You always do.

- I just don't know where to start.

- Well, you've done a good job fixing our IG page.

She found her angles.

She finally started using portrait mode.

- Thank you. - No, thank you for telling her

to ease up on them long-ass captions.

Ain't nobody trying to read all that.

- [chuckles] I know. - Hey, Crystal.

- [moaning]

- Hey. Simone.

What--what are you doing here?

- Nice to see you too.

- My bad. I didn't mean it like that.

- Uh-huh.

- But for real, why you here?

- Stealing supplies.

- I also came to say hello.

I miss you guys.

- You ain't miss us.

- Yes, I do.

It's weird not seeing y'all ever day.

So what's the latest? Give me the tea.

- Simone, you've been gone for three days.

- A lot can happen in three days.

- You wanna tell her or should I?

- Oh, shit. What's going on?

- Well, I finally convinced Victoria

to let us into the film marketing business.

- Are you serious? - I knew you'd be mad.

- That was my idea. - It was our idea.

- No, I said we should start helping studios

build smart campaigns around black movies,

and you just said, "Yeah."

- Yeah, but I've been bugging Vic about it

for the past eight months.

- He has been pitching it every other week.

- Well, if you need some help, I'm around.

- No.

Me and Crystal got it.

- Wha--

So both y'all are doing it?

- He's doing it. I'm just helping.

- Do y'all have a movie in mind?

- Yep, it's this movie called "Woke."

- What's it about?

- It's about a former Black Panther that becomes president.

And then his daughter finds out that her real father

is a white dude that killed a bunch of black people

during the riots, and she sets out

to kill him and all his friends

so they can't keep preventing black folks

from voting in all the southern states.

- Huh.

- I know.

- Listen, I've seen it twice. Okay, and it's brilliant.

- Well, sounds like you got your work cut out for you.

- Don't be like that. - Like what?

- All shady and shit. - I'm not.

- Yes, you are.

- Well, congratulations.

- Thank you. - Wait.

What's first on the agenda?

- Finding the perfect song for the trailer.

- Established artists are out 'cause we ain't got no money.

- So you guys are looking for somebody new?

- I'm just looking for somebody cheap.

Anyway, we've got to go screen the movie for the company.

- Good luck.

- [howling]

[percussive music]

[lion roars]

♪

****

- So...

What do we think?

- I didn't get it. - Yeah, what was the takeaway?

- I felt like I was high the whole time.

- The directors are challenging the status quo.

It's not supposed to be "The Best Man."

- Yeah, I loved that movie. - Me too.

- We know it was a little out there,

but we think black audiences

are ready for something different.

- Are they?

I think they still like movies they can relate to.

- This movie isn't just a popcorn movie.

It's protest art.

- I think we should go with something

a little less experimental.

- When are we gonna stop playing it safe, Vic?

This movie imagines a world

where black people are in power,

and there's a black woman walking around

killing white people with her bare hands.

That's some revolutionary shit.

This movie is gonna change the conversation.

And if we help make it a success,

we will too.

We gotta do it.

- Okay, I still think this is some bullshit.

But I've had a very long day,

and I do not feel like going back and forth

with you people, so you go sit down with the directors

and figure out a game plan.

- Thank you.

- You thank me by making sure this thing works.

- It will.

- You sound confident.

- 'Cause I am. - Hmm.

- If it doesn't work, do I still get to keep my job?

- No. - Then we gonna work it out.

Come on.

[indistinct chatter]

- Imagine me striking a pose

in all these iconic locations.

No makeup, no filters, no edge control.

Just me and all my blackness.

What, bitch?

- It's just, it's been done before.

It's not fresh.

I'm trying to do something a little different.

- You trying to have me looking like

all these other flat tummy tea hos.

- No, I'm trying to build you an audience.

- How long is that gonna take?

- It depends. - On what?

- Look, the first thing we gotta do is get people talking.

- You trying to get me on The Shade Room?

- Bitch, you ain't famous enough to be on The Shade Room.

- Have a good day. Thank you.

- Do you sing? - You know I can't sing.

- Can you pretend? - No!

- I just found out that 80% of videos

shared on social media are music related.

- What that gotta do with me?

- You gotta start singing or rapping or something.

- I don't wanna pretend to be something that I'm not.

- That's all social media is.

- [sighs]

- I know a bunch of producers. - Here you go.

- And we can make sure you don't sound crazy.

- So I'm just supposed to record a song

and put it on SoundCloud?

- Actually, I'm gonna send it to Bryson and see

if he wants to use it for this movie they're promoting.

- What movie?

- Something called "Woke."

- Bitch, I read that script on Myspace eight years ago.

Those directors are on a whole other level.

- Okay.

- I'll fake sing for something like that.

- Oh, I know.

- Let's do this, bitch.

Let's do this.

- So if someone asked you to describe your movie

in one sentence, what would you say?

- I would say don't make me

describe my movie in one sentence.

- Whoa, we need to figure out a way to simplify the message.

Even the logline is a mouthful.

- So what? Everything ain't supposed to be easy.

- I almost forgot that there were two of you.

Look, I'm not trying to make it easy, okay?

I just want people to understand.

- We don't care if they understand.

- And by "they," you mean white people?

- No, we mean those who have not evolved yet.

- Okay.

Well, look, guys, I love your movie.

- Thank you.

- And I want it to do well. - Why?

- What do you mean, why?

That's--that's the whole point.

- So you think we made "Woke"

'cause we wanted it to be successful?

- Yeah.

- We don't care if the movie makes two dollars.

We made it 'cause we had something to say.

- And what's that exactly?

- We want to explore what it means to be black and powerful.

- Okay, so the movie is an exploration

of the black power movement?

- No, black power and being a powerful black person

are two different things.

- Well, you can also be black with superpowers.

- All black people got superpowers.

- Well, which one is it?

- There's not just one way to be black.

- Boom, that's it.

"There's not just one way to be black."

That is your movie in one sentence.

That's great. I love it.

- That's corny. - You said it.

- Yeah, in conversation.

Not as a declaration.

- Well, it's helpful.

- Stop trying to simplify our art.

- Y'all are up in here burning sage

and eating dragon fruit 'cause you trying to distract me

from the fact y'all don't know what y'alls own movie is about.

- You just mad we ain't making your job easier.

- This movie ain't supposed to be simple.

It's supposed to make people think.

- Yeah, I know that.

I'm just trying to make sure people go see it.

- We don't wanna make people do anything.

If they wanna see our movie, cool.

If not, that's cool too.

- That makes no sense.

- You don't make no sense.

- Okay, well, excuse me while I go try to figure out a way

to sell your movie to the world, all right?

- We didn't make it for the world.

We made it for black people.

- Listen, if black people

are the only ones to go see it,

it won't be a success.

- Then we got two different definitions of success.

[hip-hop music]

♪

- ♪ Boom, boom yeah

- ♪ Take a knee like Kaepernick ♪

♪ Harlem black is still super lit ♪

♪ Yeah I'm contraband slim fit ♪

- ♪ I'm just saying no, I'm just saying no ♪

♪ DJs wanna scratch on me

♪ Police bullets wanna scratch on me ♪

♪ No lies just facts only

- ♪ I'm just saying no, I'm just saying no ♪

- ♪ Keep it 100 so my karma good ♪

♪ Couple thousand so my mama good ♪

♪ You was in the 'burbs, I was in the hood ♪

♪ So I understand I ain't understood ♪

♪ Slow money over ho money

♪ Had to switch it up and get some more money ♪

♪ I get to the bank like it's so funny ♪

- ♪ I'm just saying no - ♪ Boom, boom yeah

- ♪ There's no reason

♪ Why I should have to be afraid for my life ♪

♪ While getting pulled over

- ♪ I'm just saying no, I'm just saying no ♪

- ♪ We gotta learn to love ourselves ♪

♪ 'Cause they ain't never gonna love us ♪

- ♪ I'm just saying no - ♪ Boom, boom yeah

- Can you make it a little less harsh?

What do you think?

- I like this shit.

- Yeah, I like it too.

I just know Bryson's taste,

and I don't think he'll like it.

- This ain't about Bryson's taste.

This is about the movie.

- I understand.

I just don't want it to be too on the nose.

- You don't want it to be too black.

- That's not true.

For the purpose of this project,

I think you should add a few more punch lines

and we should lighten it up a bit.

- I ain't trying to sound like everybody else.

- I just want you to sound like you listen to the radio.

- I don't listen to the radio.

- I can tell.

- How much more time do y'all need?

- Can you just give us a few more minutes?

- I ain't doing it again.

- Just go in there and have a little more fun.

Maybe smile while you do it.

Look...

I just want us to win.

That's all.

- Nah.

I get it.

- ♪ I'm just saying no, I'm just saying no ♪

- ♪ Staying ratchet with a ratchet on me ♪

♪ Grey sweatshirt you pack it homie ♪

♪ Brother take a girl have a back it on me ♪

- ♪ I'm just saying no, I'm just saying no ♪

- ♪ Everything they ran on me

♪ Boss bitch you probably can't afford me ♪

♪ Get your frontal right before you frontin' on me ♪

- ♪ I'm just saying no, I'm just saying no ♪

- ♪ Y'all hos really be mad at me for no reason huh ♪

♪ That's crazy

- ♪ I'm just saying no - ♪ But I get it

♪ If I was you I would hate me too ♪

[laughs]

- ♪ I'm just saying no - ♪ Boom, boom yeah

- That's it. I love it. What do you think?

- I think it's boring as hell,

but if that's what you want, I'm cool.

- Trust me, the second one is the move.

I'll text Bryson and tell him to come down here.

- Tell him? - Yeah.

- You be running his ass.

- This is for his benefit.

- You a mess.

- All right, he's en route.

We'll let him be the judge. - Uh-huh.

- ♪ Y'all hos really be mad at me for no reason huh ♪

♪ That's crazy - ♪ I'm just saying no

- ♪ But you know what I get it ♪

♪ If I was you I would hate me too, I'm just saying ♪

♪ I'm just saying

- Wow, I'm impressed.

So y'all not gonna tell me whose version is who?

- No, we want your honest opinion.

- Yeah, 'cause if you knew which one was Simone's,

we already know which one you gonna pick.

- So which one you like, B?

- Can I hear 'em again?

- No.

- [sigh] Damn.

Uh, all right.

I...

like the first one.

- Yeah! Whoo.

[laughing]

- Really, Bryson? - Well, I like both.

- Nah, nah, damn that.

Stand in your power, Bryson.

- What'd you say?

- I said stand in your power.

- I like the first one.

- [laughs]

Whoo. [chuckles]

- You have mediocre taste, so it's fine.

- Don't be mad, boo.

- Can I go now?

- Yeah.

- Stop pouting. - I'm not.

- You're not always right, Simone.

- Yes, I am.

- Well, not today.

- I still think my version is better.

- Of course you do.

But I think Tia's version is more in line with the movie.

- What if people don't like it?

- So what? - So what?

- I can't worry about what other people think.

I gotta go with my gut.

- So you just gonna leave?

- Yeah. I got shit to do.

- But--

[Lolo Zouai's "Challenge"]

♪

- [vocalizing]

♪

♪ I need a challenge

♪ Don't let me have it

♪ I need a challenge

♪ Show me your talent

♪ Give me a challenge oh

♪ Silk on my body no one on my mind ♪

♪ Platinum dreams end in single nights ♪

♪ When did I get so unimpressed ♪