Brown Sugar essays

Brown Sugar essays Brown Sugar is modern day love story between 2 friends, Dre (Taye Diggs) and Sidney (Sanaa Lathan) who can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single childhood momentthe day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic and he is a successful, though unfulfilled music executive. As they lay down the tracks toward their futures, hip-hop isn't the only thing that keeps them coming back to that moment on the corner that they both can't seem to forget, and a bond between them that is not as platonic as they would like to believe. What is the attraction that each couple has for each other? Dre and Sidney have an undeniable yet strange attraction for each other. Because of their strong affinity spawning from their friendship, their true romantic attraction does not become an issue until the pot boils over. The first attraction is infatuation displayed at a young age. The phrase birds of a feather flock together# holds true for Dre and Sidney. The couple is homophily intertwined from the city streets of New York City burros. The two have an abundance of life experiences, and rememberable points during the movie in which make they reflect back and cherish their friendship and love for one another. The two soon begin developing a tremendous love and passion for hip hip music, and there love for hip hop is the glue that will bond them for life. Another element of their attraction is how hip hop has grew along with them throughout the years, and now Sidney is an editor at XXL Magazine, a popular hip hop magazine, and Dre is a successful executive with Millennium Records, developing new hip hop artist. Their passion and love for hip hop has grew into career goals, which have also strengthened the glue between them. And last but not least, is their obvious physical attraction for each other. Sidney is a beautiful cocoa brown s...