Hello and welcome to the Hard Today Come episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies.

I'm Felix Amon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck, also of Axios.

Hi.

Hi Emily and we're also here with V-Pell Monger of the Wall Street Journal. Hi V-Pell.

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V-Pell, you have picked a 50-year-old low-budget movie from Jamaica for us to watch this week.

What is it and why did you pick it?

The movie's called The Hard Today Come. It's the first feature film to come out of Jamaica.

And I picked it because I think it has a lot to say about the music business today,

even though it was made 50 years ago.

We are going to talk about whether or not there are parallels to today's music industry.

We're going to talk about the themes of the movie, the quality of the movie, the vibe of the movie.

It's all coming up on Slate Money Goes to the Movies.

To rewind a little bit, we're watching this movie that was made in 1972 somewhere around there in Jamaica.

And Jimmy Cliff plays a guy who's impocunious, let's say, and a little bit violent.

But he eventually manages to make a record.

And eventually the record becomes popular and the way it becomes popular is he does the 1972 Jamaican thing of like blowing up on TikTok,

which is about killing a bunch of police men.

Becoming outlaw, outlaw hero, just like Django.

I mean, there's a clip from Django in the movie.

And that's what gets him up the charts.

I mean, it's his, when he comes from the village to the city to Kingston, he wants to be famous.

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