THEY CLONED TYRONE (2023) Ending Explained | Things You Missed Reaction & Review | Spoiler Breakdown
I gotta say… This whole movie instantly reminded me of General’s Fried Chicken from Undercover Brother. What’s going on everyone, JBuck here, and we’re gonna be breaking down everything, the ending, themes, weird references, and of course our reaction and review of this latest Netflix movie, They Cloned Tyrone, which was a great surprise. So if you are new here, welcome to JBuck Studios, please Like and Subscribe to ensure a delicious box of that wet, juicy chicken, and of course stay up to date on our latest breakdowns and other weird videos. Otherwise thank you so much for clicking
this, please pass that tabasco, because this chicken.. Has got no… flavor. I tried with the pun, there’s a writer’s strike, give me a break, as we get into They Cloned Tyrone. Alright so this whole thing kicks off establishing this Glen area as a ghetto, where everyone depends on everyone to keep it… well a ghetto. John Boyega’s Fontaine, his name meaning fountain or water source, is one of the main drug dealers running the show, keeping his territories from being taken over by rival dealer Issac. Fontaine’s contact, Slick Charles, is a local pimp doing the same, with
a group of gals on his roster including Yo-Yo. Now Fontaine is quickly shot and killed only to wake up the next morning
well not really fun, but this was the Fontaine from the night before, as the three Scooby-Doo investigate and find a secret laboratory under a drug house, blowing open a massive conspiracy that the Glen is run by an elaborate network of white government scientists and researchers, using the citizens as human guinea pigs to test out new products, songs, substances, even clones, to essentially control and bend the Black population into behaving the way they want. Think the whole conspiracy of “The Man keeping people down” is in fact real, which perfectly ties in with Undercover Brother’s whole plot
of mind control fried chicken. Almost beat for beat the same. This conspiracy is alive and well, with Fontaine, Slick Charles and others merely being cogs in the machine, so they all hatch an elaborate plan to bring the whole show down. Tricking the white researchers into thinking Fontaine is shot and killed like what happened earlier in the story, but rather Fontaine survives, getting a one way ticket into the underground facility, forcing them to open the service elevators to allow Slick Charles and the others to take over and bust the place up. However the final twist of
it all is that Fontaine, or rather a very old Fontaine is the main genealogist researcher working for the man. He was given a deal by them to run the facility after the death of his younger brother Ronnie, therefore implementing his clones as a way to carry on that lineage, and also keep the Glen under the control of his drugs. They needed a control area to test things. He states that yes mind control and quote “fitting in” to what the whities wanted was the original plan. This explains the hair care products, music, purple drink, and even
fried chicken But this was far too expensive, and solely acting the part, behavior to the ignorant standards of their white overlords, was not enough, so a new plan was hatched. Total integration, not all at once, but rather over generations of black people, slowly turning them into white people. Some real fucked up shit, as we can assume it was a full integration over 5 generations according to the 5 Zordon like tubes behind old Fontaine. And some of the researchers, gas station attendants, and chicken joint managers, were the first failed experiments at this integration. So the whole
theme here is the total eradication of a race, culture, and people to force them to fit nicely into a box that was constructed for them, rather than accepting and celebrating differences, sounds like White Supremacy if you ask me. This was all cleverly hinted at too, not only with the failed experiments running storefronts, but also the mention and usage of Micheal Jackson several times throughout this. Though Jackson had vitiligo (vi·tuh·lai·gow), a chronic autoimmune disorder that caused his skin to lose pigment or color, in real life, it’s subtly implied he may have been one of the quote
“failed experiments” along the way of total integration. Fontaine stops this total integration white supremacy poppy jock by activating his winter soldier-like clone to shoot his old original self, therefore stopping the research, as he was the head genealogist of the plan, allowing the Glen to be free of this government manipulation, and finally give them the freedom to live a life that is solely a rinse repeat can’t get ahead no matter what. And the mid credits scene reveals this same exact things is happening all over the United States in other test sites, as the title of the
movie, They Clones Tyrone makes a bit more sense, because the Fontaine clone located in Los Angeles is named Tyrone, seeing a clone of himself on television released from the LA research facility, a bit baffled as he was cloned or he is in fact a clone. There are some great underlying themes scattered throughout this aside from “the man keeping the black folks down”, equality, and essentially white supremacy, but the one parallel that instantly stood out to me was the inclusion of Spongebob. Junebug brings this up when initially talking with Fonatine, but the interesting thing is Spongebob
and Bikini Bottom are in an eerily similar situation as all of the people living in the Glen. Yes, who lives in a pineapple under the sea? And this is located in the fictitious place, Bikini Bottom, which is actually based on the real life location of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Now why do I bring this up? Well after the events of World War 2, the United Nations essentially allowed the United States to govern this part of the Northern Pacific, thus leading to further developments of nuclear weapons technology during the Cold
War. Between 1946 and 1958, the US detonated roughly 67 nuclear bombs in this area, one specifically called “Bravo” detonated on Bikini Atoll and was estimated to be 1,000 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb. This unprecedented testing caused the Bikinians to deal with the loss of their homes, starvation, and some of the worst radiation contamination ever recorded. Their culture, homeland, everything was lost due to government experiments, similar to the government’s involvement with the test sites in They Cloned Tyrone. So in the most bizarre way possible, this Spongebob reference is maybe one of the most clever
nods to what this whole movie is trying to say. The suffering of one, for the advancement of another is a little.. A little fucked up. I also want to say there is a connection between Fontaine’s brother Ronnie, being victimized by I’m assuming a white police officer, and Rodney King who was brutally beaten by LAPD in 1991. Especially with the end credits showing more of Los Angeles, but could be a massive stretch. So let me know if I’m tripping in the comments, or do these comparisons and connections make a whole lotta sense. Honestly, this was a
massive surprise for me, and absolutely adored the weird blend of sci-fi, X-files like scenarios of the film. Being this pulpy nod to 70’s blaxploitation, the opening 15 minutes perfectly sets up the world, characters, relationships, tone, style and then you get to play in the romp of the mystery at hand. Once I thought every reveal possible could have already happened, another wrinkle in this goofy weird unravels, and totally threw me off. The core cast of John Boyega, who is like sooooo good in this movie, sold me on a lot of the scenarios and made me feel
for this essentially hopeless and helpless character. But Jamie Foxx’s Slick Charles is the wise cracking complement, with Teyonah Parris supplying the spicy and delicious cherry on top of it all. The three of them solely alone in a car or elevator with dialogue and strange mannerisms was this movie’s special sauce. Hell if they somehow got these three to continue this genre in some weird ass sci-fi scooby doo like mysteries, I’d be in 100%. I’m gonna toss They Cloned Tyrone a solid 8.5/10. Everything clicks, and the writing is so sharp with obscure references and off handed remarks,
that hit on satirical beats not everyone is going to pick up on. This is the definition of like a midnight feature you randomly turn on when you can’t sleep, and hooks you from beginning to end, without you missing a beat. They Cloned Tyrone… will not have you reaching for your phone…Ehh bad pun, but you gotta live with it Anyway that is everything from They Cloned Tyrone. Honestly a weird and wacky time that surprised me. But what did you think of this latest Netflix movie? One of the best, couldn’t get on board, I’d love to hear
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