Raising Hell by Ronin Ro

Author:Ronin Ro [Ronin Ro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061750694
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Cold Chillin’ begins with D.M.C. in a prison cell. A white corrections officer comes to escort D to the warden. He’s about to be released from prison. The officer attempts to hit D with his nightstick on their way to the warden because he feels D is acting defiant and not walking quickly enough, but D grabs the stick in midswing, holding it for a second.

In the warden’s office, the warden lectures D about staying out of trouble on the outside. The dialogue establishes that D’s character was incarcerated after attacking a guy with a broken bottle during a barroom brawl. “So we knew it was self-defense and his being in jail was bullshit,” said Menello, “but it was cut because Rick thought it made D seem ‘tougher’ to be just coming out of jail for something we didn’t know about. More mysterious.” Still, the fact that his character was innocent explained why the warden in the movie wanted to meet with D before his release from prison. D is released. Outside the prison, Run’s character waits by a cool black car while Jam Master Jay sits inside of the vehicle, behind the steering wheel. D hugs Run, who says, “My nigga.”

In the black hot rod, the mood of the script changed. Instead of more mature character development, Rubin and Menello decided to include a ludicrous scene in which Jay describes a nightmare about two beautiful women picking him up on the road, then giving him oral sex. “I’m like, ‘Yeah!’” Jay shouts. “And then you know what she do? She bit my dick off. Same fucked-up dream for weeks.”

D mutters, “Fucked up.”

The anecdote, Menello explained, “was based on an actual dream a friend of mine kept having.” He also felt it was ironic, macho rappers expressing a Freudian fear of the opposite sex. At the very least it would “explain some of the more sexist stuff later,” he said, “like Slick Rick singing ‘Treat Her Like a Prostitute.’”

After going from emotional drama—D’s release and reunion with old friends—to Jay mouthing a sexually explicit anecdote (a result of Rubin, Russell, and Run-D.M.C. all asking the screenwriter to juggle comedy with action), the next scene shows Run-D.M.C. meeting with their manager, Russell, and saying they want to “lay down some funky joints.” Russell takes Run-D.M.C. to see his new group, the Beasties, perform. The Beasties performance detracts from the film’s main story—that of Run-D.M.C.—but Rubin and Russell wanted to include the Beastie Boys in the film and figured a concert scene would be a good way to let the film-viewing audience see the group perform a new song (which would appear on the Def Jam sound track) and also introduce even more comedy to the film (since the Beasties follow their performance with a few jokes).

Russell then leads Run-D.M.C. to small label Strut Records, where owner Vic Ferrante wants to sign them. Russell says he’ll have to sign the Beasties, too. Ferrante (played by Rick Rubin) agrees. Once they leave, Ferrante tells fat, bumbling label executive Arthur Rattler (played by bearded Ric Menello): “Sign them.

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