Half-Assed Internet Research
Research covers unrealized sequel talks, Rosario Dawson's age and later account, and the John Henry meaning of the opening song.
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- Ray Allen and Spike Lee are reported to have discussed a de facto sequel, but one participant says it will not happen.
- The observed Rosario Dawson is reported as eighteen and sexually inexperienced during production, with a later statement that she first had sex at twenty.
- The opening song is identified as John Henry.
- John Henry is described as a Black folk hero and steel driver who beat a machine but died.
- The panel interprets that labor story as a deliberate man-versus-machine frame for the opening.