Killa Season (film)

Killa Season is a 2006 direct to video film about a rapper's early life as a hustler.

Overview

Cam'ron's debut into the film world chronicles a loosely autobiographical plot of his own transformation from a high school basketball star to a full-time coke dealer. This movie is based on the life of High school basketball phenom Karlton Hines. Cameron character is named "Flea."

The movie also starred Juelz Santana as "Bandana" and Hell Rell as Hell.

Other members of the Diplomats who made appearances in the film included 40 Cal, Un Kasa, J. R. Writer and "Chubbie Baby," who served as Flea's supplier of firearms. However, these three members played minor roles and their parts did not involve much dialogue. Jim Jones, The Diplomats co-founder, is seen only briefly in the beginning of the film. However, near the end of the scene in which the Diplomats go to Atlanta, Jim Jones is blurred out but can be identified by one of his slogans.

The movie was released in 2006, nearly simultaneously with the Killa Season album. It was shown at a few theaters in New York City and is available on DVD.

In one scene, female Colombian drug mules defecate onto newspaper in an abandoned apartment. They are then made to clean off the "fingers" of heroin they've smuggled in.

Many viewers mistake the powder in the movie as cocaine instead of heroin. Flea actually sells 'china white,' which is a white powder form of heroin. In the scene where Flea watches a 'drug fiend' snort the powder and fall on the ground because the powder's so potent, many mistakenly assume the powder is cocaine since the fiend snorts it.

Cast

• Cam'ron as Flea
• Juelz Santana as Bandana
• Hell Rell as Hell
• Funkmaster Flex as Fred
• Damon Dash as Himself
• Jim Jones as himself (Introduction Credits Only)
• J. R. Writer as Himself
• DJ Megatron as Mega (credited as Mega McGriff)
• 40 Cal as 40 Cal
• Big Joe as Fish
• Tony Alston as Drug Dealer / Homeboy #1
• Greyson Cruz as Spanish Connect
• Osas Ighodaro as Shinae (as Martha Ighodaro)
• Lou Martini Jr. as Lawyer
• Ryan Masterson as Bodega Kid
• Andy Pickens as Bells
• Antonio Meneses Saillant as Italian Henchman
• Michael K. Williams as Crackhead
• Ma$e as Himself (archive footage)
• Cry Baby as Crybaby
• Yavus Aksu as Goat
• Sajad B as Purple Haze

Production mishaps

• In the scene in which Flea's supplier Gordo attempts to convince him to switch from weed- to cocaine-dealing, he compares a bag of weed to a Honda (i.e. a middle-of-the road drug, that won't lead to anything special) and a bag of cocaine to a Ferrari (i.e., a top-of-the-line drug which could lead Flea to "baller-status"). He then asks Flea which "car" he wants to go with. Flea, after weighing his options, decides to stick with weed, yet mistakenly refers to it as "the Hyundai."
• Production of the film Killa Season was almost completely derailed when it turned out that Cam'ron had his daughter for the weekend. The part of Flea's niece and the scene where the new character is murdered in front of a Papa John's pizzeria were hastily written into the script.
• In a scene near the end (1:58:10) at a warehouse in Queens, the windshield for a microphone was accidentally lowered into the recording. The take was still used in the final product, despite there being a second with the boom microphone visible on the left of the screen.
• In the scene where Flea sells the marijuana to the Security Guard (after the Basketball Scene when Flea approached the Security Guard), you could see the microphone being pulled back.

Trivia

• Real archive footage of Cam'ron is used to show his character Flea when he was young.
• Cam'ron's directing debut.
• The title of the movie is also the name of rapper Cam'ron's fifth album.
• Jim Jones in not featured at all in the movie except for the beginning archive footage credits.
• The rap Flea delivers at his grandfather's funeral was a freestyle recorded in two takes. Cam'ron choked on the first take, later stating "That fuckin' casket was freakin' me out, duke."
• Rapper Benzino is referenced in the car scene when Fred claims to have received the car Flea was buying from Benzino. Ironically, Funkmaster Flex is known for beefing with Benzino, although Cam appeared in Benzino's Rock The Party remix.

External links

• Killa Season at the Internet Movie Database