In Hustle and Flow, the lead characters are a pimp (Terrance Howard) who desperately wants to escape his “nobodiness” by becoming a rapper. His partner in crime is a young prostitute he picked up working truckstops on her own. 
He won’t let her work in the strip bar like the others because she’s too clumsy. In her view, she has nothing to give the world or the people she cares about. She is nothing. Terrance Howard, as he gets in touch with hope, grabs her at one point and forces her behind the wheel of his car. Forces her to say she is “in charge” of her life. The words barely come out. Then she says them again and again, louder and louder, “I’m in charge! I’m in charge! I’m in charge!” until she has a sense of what he means. Hope. When her leader ends up in prison she takes his demo and hits the marketing trail where she converts her “talents” to the skills of a publicist.
