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     Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 8244 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: |
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/09/09/official-black-dynamite-trailer-watch-thi s-jive-sucker/ | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2346 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
First, I've often wondered who gives 1 star and doesn't comment. I mean, what's their displeasure. In this cASE, what is it.... the movie? The throw back theme? Of course this movie is not for everyone, but WHAT MOVIES ARE? Theres probably a skinhead amongst us. For those that remember these kinds of flicks, it could be a blast. I might catch it on bootleg. | ||
| Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 3705 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A |
Hell yeah!!! I'm still laughing! It's a spoof and I like spoofs. I'll check it out. And I agree, why post one star anonymously without commenting about why you did so. Don't like it? No problem. Just say why....! | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2350 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Hey Ntfs, is it really a spoof? I mean, Ol'dynamite appeared as if he was playing it straight. I know it's a throw back but where's the line? When I think about it, it was flled with all the old cliche's I am trying to see how this compares to a spoof produced by the Wayans. Help me out. | ||
| Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 3706 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: |
Carey, it's a spoof bro -TRUST ME! All the old corny street pimps, cheesy hood Negroes and the ever present "man" as the white devil-gangster-drug kingpin-trying to destroy black people plot. It's a take off of those now embarrassing simple minded blaxploitation movies of the early 70's. The extreme nature of the street coonery and buffoonery that was the standard back drop to this genre is being reenacted. I'm surprised you seem to see this as something to be taken seriously..... | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 14238 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Movies can be classified by genre. There are westerns, film noir, love stories, comedies, musicals, mysteries, spy thrillers, etc, - and blaxploitation! A director can decide that he is going to make a movie that parodies a genre or, - he can decide to make a movie that exemplifies a genre. For instance: a film like "Blazing Saddles" is a parody of the western genre, and a movie like "I'm gonna get you sucka" is a parody of the blaxploitation genre. "Black Dynamite" is purported to have been an attempt to replicate the blaxplotation genre. It does not make fun of blaxploitation films, it typifies them. It is a movie that stays in character and does not laugh at itself, but the audience will find it hilarious because it authentically portrays a by-gone era that seems ridiculous in the present. | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2352 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Spoof: To fool, deceive; trick "I'm surprised you seem to see this as something to be taken seriously....." "It is a movie that stays in character and does not laugh at itself, but the audience will find it hilarious because it authentically portrays a by-gone era that seems ridiculous in the present" "Ol'dynamite appeared as if he was playing it straight" Ntsf, that's why I asked the question. | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 8246 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
the ever present "man" as the white devil-gangster-drug kingpin-trying to destroy black people (That ain't no plot. That's a fact Anyway these movies WERE parodies. I guess you didn't get the joke. Stop watching Seinfeld.) It's a take off of those now embarrassing simple minded blaxploitation movies of the early 70's (Only embarassing to wimps who stay up night worrying how they are going to explain this to their "white friends". Lemme tell ya, if they was your friends they wouldn't try to crack your face. Just quote 'em a few lines from "The Beverly Hillbillies" when they get froggy. That'll fix it. But you'll have to grow some balls first... This one is a little late, though. We have already had "Undercover Brother" and "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" ) | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 14241 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
I disagree that Black Dynamite is a "take-off" because it it didn't stray from the blaxpoltation formula. It was true to it. I am getting my information from what I read in an interview with the actor who portrayed the title character. It's like the hard-bitten detective films of the 1940s, a genre which retains its fatalistic mystique in current movies that take place back during those times. Back in the 70s black folks seriously related to blaxploitation movies and didn't consider them parodies because they were art imitating life. Times have changed somewhat. Now this anachroistic movie comes across as funny because our methods of dealing with racism have changed. | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 8251 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
Back in the 70s black folks seriously related to blaxploitation movies and didn't consider them parodies because they were art imitating life. (I must respectfully disagree. How many people did you know who acted or dressed like Dolemite, The Mack, Willie Dynamite, Slaughter, Shaft, et al? I knew nobody. Oh, guys might get them an Eleganza catalogue and try to look like them characters, but they was almost all doing the nine to five--a lot more than today, by the way. The folks who was doing anywhere close to that wasn't nearly so stylish or amusing--at least around here. They were wish fulfillment. Adolescent power fantasies. I'm going to stick it to the man, wear fly clothes everywhere and have all the women. You are right in that they were just another form of it--like our version of the cowboy or detective flix. |
