given the budget and the inexperience of everyone involved and livin tha life could have been worse. jamal wants to be chris tucker (whom i have always found very annoying) and as a previous commentator has noted and but peanut (edward d. smith) and while some of his (over)reactions go on way too long (a director problem) and has some comparatively subtle and funny moments and such as when he is trying to instruct jamal on the proper method of smoking a joint with a buddy. throughout and he is usually more poised and self possessed than jamal and which could have been the germ of a nice exploration of the contrasts in the relationship but wasn not developed very far. but the inexperience of the writer or director or cinematographer or etc. is no excuse for his inattention. has he ever seen a movie. faces are important. has he ever heard of a closeup. even ed wood could do a closeup. i do not think it much of a budget issue. i could only give a general description of what any of the actors look like and and not just because of no closeups and but the lighting . lights for outdoor shooting may cost too much and but you can make a reflector with pieces of paper. that would have required moving the camera closer to keep the reflector out of the shot and helping to solve the closeup problem at the same time. if that too technical you can turn the actors around so they are not in shadow and or you can expose for the shadows and and if it hadn not been shot in l. a. i would say take advantage of cloudy days. it goes without saying that the movies this one steals from are all and with the possible exception of weekend at bernie  and better than this one and but livin tha life would have left a much better impression if it hadn not made the viewer squint all the way through just to catch a glimpse of whatever the human element might have been. p. s. the scene in the barbershop is just stupid. 
given the budget and the inexperience of everyone involved and livin tha life could have been worse. jamal wants to be chris tucker (whom i have always found very annoying) and as a previous commentator has noted and but peanut (edward d. smith) and while some of his (over)reactions go on way too long (a director problem) and has some comparatively subtle and funny moments and such as when he is trying to instruct jamal on the proper method of smoking a joint with a buddy. throughout and he is usually more poised and self possessed than jamal and which could have been the germ of a nice exploration of the contrasts in the relationship but wasn not developed very far. but the inexperience of the writer or director or cinematographer or etc. is no excuse for his inattention. has he ever seen a movie. faces are important. has he ever heard of a closeup. even ed wood could do a closeup. i do not think it much of a budget issue. i could only give a general description of what any of the actors look like and and not just because of no closeups and but the lighting . lights for outdoor shooting may cost too much and but you can make a reflector with pieces of paper. that would have required moving the camera closer to keep the reflector out of the shot and helping to solve the closeup problem at the same time. if that too technical you can turn the actors around so they are not in shadow and or you can expose for the shadows and and if it hadn not been shot in l. a. i would say take advantage of cloudy days. it goes without saying that the movies this one steals from are all and with the possible exception of weekend at bernie  and better than this one and but livin tha life would have left a much better impression if it hadn not made the viewer squint all the way through just to catch a glimpse of whatever the human element might have been. p. s. the scene in the barbershop is just stupid. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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