What the hell is this about?
Did anyone get anything from the trailer? Crime is good? Crime is profitable? Stupid looking movie.
sharegranted most blaxploitation movies were not PC....but this just seems strange to put out when we have had a Black President, two Secretaries of State and Attorney Generals. Why would people aspire to be like this?? There are many more realistic role models for anybody to now become.
sharegranted most blaxploitation movies were not PC....but this just seems strange to put out when we have had a Black President, two Secretaries of State and Attorney Generals.What does any of what you said have to do with Superfly the movie?
Silence of the Lambs came out in 1991 was that inspirational and were people aspiring to be Hannibal Lecter aka a Psychotic serial killer?
The term PC wasn't around when Blaxploitation movies were released (and for the life of me I still don't know why those that speak on Blaxploitation can't seem to wrap their intellectually non-curious minds around White-x-ploitation movies). Not that there is always a Yin and Yang for everything but the skewed concept of what movies are and what movies tell us about ourselves isn't very nuanced in this case.
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Blacksploitation was supposed to show blacks in 'lead' roles @ a time when they did not have much options.
Seems VERY strange now.
Your understanding: Blacksploitation was supposed to show blacks in 'lead' roles @ a time when they did not have much options. Seems VERY strange now.
Rather simplistic but betrays your attitude and POV towards the Superfly remake and minorities in film in general. Yes, what you state is an opinion but posited by inaccurate but probably anecdotal information; and lacks any first hand experience in context to the time period.
"Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The films, though receiving backlash for stereotypical characters all the while, were one of the first instances in which black characters and communities were the heroes and subjects of film and television, rather than being portrayed as sidekicks or as victims of brutality. The genre allowed the rethinking of race relations in the 1970s.Here is another reference for you as to minorities in film historically which belies the accepted premise preseumed by many as to Blaxploitation films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_film The race film or race movie was a film type produced entirely in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for an all-black audience, featuring black casts.
Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines once Hollywood realized the potential profit of expanding the audiences of blaxploitation films across those racial lines.
The Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) head and ex-film publicist Junius Griffin coined the term from the words "black" and "exploitation." Variety credited Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the less radical Hollywood-financed film Shaft (both released in 1971) with the invention of the blaxploitation genre.
Blaxploitation films were the first to regularly feature soundtracks of funk and soul music and primarily black casts.
Historical Significance: Race films are of great interest to students of African American cinema. They are historically significant due to their ability to showcase the talents of actors who were relegated to stereotypical supporting roles in mainstream studio films. Hattie McDaniel and Clarence Muse are two of the most striking examples of talented performers who generally were given minor roles in mainstream film. A few stars from race films were able to cross over to relative stardom in mainstream works – for example, Paul Robeson and Evelyn Preer. Hollywood studios often used race movies as a recruiting source of black talent.
The movies were ENTERTAINMENT that themselves created their own stereotypes. They were not documentaries, biographies or autobiographies. They were not PSA's (Public Service Announcements for selected communities besides the actors guild). They were ENTERTAINMENT vehicles first and foremost to make money and NOT to inform or even enlighten.
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