Films

Us : I Got Five on It

Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o), Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke), Jason Wilson (Evan Alex), and Zora Wilson (Shahadi Wright Joseph) begin to sing along to the car radio playing "I got 5 on it". The mother tells her son to "get in rhythm", but she proceeds to snap her fingers off beat.

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beat, emotion, close-up, dialogue, leitmotif (sound), medium close-up, medium shot, music, diegetic, overlapping dialogue, reaction shot, sound effects, symbolism, voice-off

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"I Got Five on It" in Us. Directed by Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures, 2019, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2347

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Abigail Vetrone

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