Bring It On, the that turns 20 on August 25. Isis is talking about cheers—specifically how Torrance's squad, the mostly white Rancho Carne Toros, has been pilfering routines from the East Compton Clovers (of which Isis, a Black woman, is the captain) for years.
It's a surprisingly effective education on cultural appropriation placed within a whip-smart comedy about competitive high school cheerleaders.
That's the brilliance of : It hides its medicine inside the candy, a metaphor both director Peyton Reed and screenwriter Jessica Bendinger used when discussing the film. “You couldn't suddenly have a frothy movie take this hard left turn into these really serious themes,” Reed tells Glamour. “It had to be seeded into the story from the.
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