{"id":3920,"date":"2021-05-14T14:47:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/femimagazine.com\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2021-05-14T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:48:06","slug":"chris-rocks-saw-spin-off-spiral-confronts-horrors-of-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/femimagazine.com\/?p=3920","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rock&#8217;s &#8216;Saw&#8217; spin-off &#8216;Spiral&#8217; Confronts Horrors of Police Brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spiral: Saw (2021 Movie) Official Trailer \u2013 Chris Rock, Samuel L. 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Jackson in this film!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Via Yahoo News:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it came to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tagged\/spiral\"><em>Spiral<\/em><\/a>, though \u2014 the new humor-laced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tagged\/saw\"><em>Saw<\/em><\/a> spin-off\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/spiral-chris-rock-funny-saw-movie-comedy-horror-darren-lynn-bousman-150026022.html\">Rock lobbied Lionsgate to let him make<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the 56-year-old comedian and actor had no misgivings about putting on a badge to play a Metro City detective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI never really starred as a cop, and it\u2019s almost like a comedian rite of passage, especially Black comedians,\u201d Rock tells Yahoo Entertainment (watch above), pointing to Eddie Murphy (<em>Beverly Hills Cop<\/em>), Martin Lawrence (<em>Bad Boys<\/em>), Chris Tucker (<em>Rush Hour<\/em>) and Kevin Hart (<em>Ride Along<\/em>). \u201cIt\u2019s such a thing. [But] I didn\u2019t want to do it like everybody else. I\u2019m like, \u2018Hmmm. What if it had a little horror in it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut no, I did not second guess playing a cop at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rock\u2019s self-described \u201cweird relationship with the cops\u201d as a Black man does reverberate through&nbsp;<em>Spiral<\/em>, though. While the&nbsp;<em>Saw&nbsp;<\/em>franchise\u2019s longtime killer Jigsaw targeted law enforcement plenty of times in the past with his morality tests and death traps, the Jigsaw copycat killer in&nbsp;<em>Spiral&nbsp;<\/em>exclusively targets cops, some of whom have shot unarmed men. It all makes the social justice element of&nbsp;<em>Spiral<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 which was written in 2018 and filmed in summer, 2019, a year before the racial reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd \u2014 feel more pointed today. Or as IndieWire film critic David Ehrlich&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2021\/05\/spiral-review-saw-chris-rock-1234636438\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">put it<\/a>, \u201c<em>Saw<\/em>&nbsp;is woke now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt seems very timely,\u201d Rock says. \u201cTo say \u2018luck\u2019 would be a weird thing. But sometimes the stars just align. So now the movie is better than if it would\u2019ve came out pre-pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tagged\/darren-lynn-bousman\">Darren Lynn Bousman<\/a>&nbsp;confirms&nbsp;<em>Spiral&nbsp;<\/em>evolves the series\u2019 social awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of the things the\u00a0<em>Saw<\/em>\u00a0franchise has always been about is reforming the individual,\u201d he says. \u201cSo one of the first things we looked at was, \u2018How do we elevate Jigsaw\u2019s message in this new kind of revival? 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