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Ok Maybe i'm slow....

posted 17 years ago by e_blakely
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But can someone explain to me the meaning of Ed's poem, I must've watched love jones 100 times and it's one of my all time favorite movies but I never really grasped the meaning of it. Can someone break down the meaning "fisher Price" style for me.

(Ed's poem)
Romance is dead is what they said while sittin around cheatin at pool. But at the very last frame of his 9 ball game, the kat who had the date at the top of the empire state, is the one who got hustled..like a fool.

[–] doitwithlove88 17 years ago

Basically he's saying that these guys were sitting around playing pool saying how romance was dead and whatnot. The guy who went out of his way and made his date a big deal ROMANTICALLY is the one who got hustled. That's my interpretation. I may be wrong but hey...whatever. =)

[–] dramma18 16 years ago

Yeah, maybe the one who had a date on top the empire state got hustled because he was trying to be romantic, but got stood up? proving that romance is dead?

[–] boobyred 16 years ago

Funny that you say that because this is my favorite movie and I have said his poem to myself every time I watch this movie and I have seen this movie so much I could probably act it out myself and I still don't know what that poem means. Sorry I can't help but I would like that answer if someone knows

[–] dir_by_ade 16 years ago

(Ed's poem)
Romance is dead is what they said while sittin around cheatin at pool. But at the very last frame of his 9 ball game, the kat who had the date at the top of the empire state, is the one who got hustled..like a fool.

My take: Folks that do not know love or have experienced it at all, yet run around claiming that they have known of it or dealt with love, have been giving illfated advice. Yet when they themselves come face to face with the real thing and they finally have real true love within their grasp, they move on false notions and bad interpretactions thus leaving them chasing true love by the guided rules of the faked forced feelings.

Just a thought.

[–] mslady89 14 years ago

love ed's poem
some things i want to point out, romance is dead, while cheating at pool
darius and savon were talking about love being pointless, while cheating at pool

also, people hustle at pool games. thats why he said the guy got hustled like a fool

i think ed's poem is more about two guys arguing while cheating at a pool game (one guy getting hustled(i think the guy getting hustled is the one who had the date)). one guy thinks romance is dead, while the other guy thinks it is still alive. the guy who thinks romance is alive is the one who set up the romantic date at the empire state building, but instead got stood up, hustled, disrespected, unappreciated. the guy who was defending romance is the one who got a lesson.

fisher price:
the guy who cheated at the 9 ball game, is the one who got cheated in romance

thats my interpretation. love that poem

[–] pyj1103 14 years ago

I love that poem too.

This is a really late reply but...

I think everyone is right. However, I always figured when Ed references the Empire State Bldg., that he was referring to the old movie “An Affair to Remember”...

A man and woman met by chance on a ship one day and become friends. They are both engaged to other ppl. They have other chance meetings and one day decide they should be together and need to end their relationships with their respective partners. They plan to meet six months later at the Empire State Bldg if they have successfully dropped their partners. He waits for her until midnight, but she never shows, he thinks he’s been rejected. A year later, he learns that in her haste to get to the Empire State Bldg, she's struck by a car and paralyzed.

[–] ki_b 14 years ago

My interpretation is similiar to what was mentioned - the person who is the subject of the poem was getting bad advice from his friends who are cynical - telling him that romance is dead.

Apparently he had a great thing, which is implied by the reference to the "date at the top of the empire state" but he blew it based on listening to his friends which is how he got hustled like a fool (by his friends).

I don't know. Sounds plausible?!?! :)

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[–] nestafan2 14 years ago

Getting "hustled like a fool" here means he fell in love (like a fool) despite his beliefs that romance is dead.

The Empire State reference comes from the movies Sleepless in Seattle and An Affair to Remember where both male protagonists fall in love unexpectantly after meeting the female protagonists on the observation deck of the Empire State building.

The "very last frame" refers to the ends of the movies, or in the end, their theory about the death of romance has been proven wrong. He was lied to, or he was "hustled."

Heaven will be underbooked.

[–] tieuellegacy 14 years ago

These are interesting answers. Great question E.B.

I think that most of the people are hinting toward a similar fate. Mine is different and grim in a way.

The "Romance is dead..." part ties to the actual game between Savon and Darius. You can't cheat at pool when two players that know the game play. They were basically just shooting around and I think they were just setting the ball up where they wanted. It was because they were deep in convo. I don't think of pool in frames. I think of bowling in frames so I'm thinking that it was a transition in the poem. The last portion, to me, didn't deal with an actual date. In my opinion, he compared a fool that has been hustled for his last dollar with a fool for love. Both have effects that are like stock market crashes. They leap from buildings and bridges in disgust with themselves and their lives.

Fisher Price= Love, and the loss of love, can make you do strange things.

Tieuel Legacy! Motion aka The DDAd