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Super Fly – 1972 Parks Jr.
- The ideas and ambition outweigh some of the skill here (and surely production value/budget) but it’s a very solid Blaxploitation film and indie film
- The Curtis Mayfield score can’t be overstated. “Pusher man” and title track. “Pusher Man” is stunning and repeated twice. It’s also an excellent film score outside of the songs included
- Debut film for Parks
- Almost like a rough draft with some of the flubs– crude
- Uses 1972 NYC as sort of like a post WW2 Rome or Berlin neorealism film with some of the abandoned buildings and decay
- Film could be titled “Get Out” with Priest (Ron O’Neal) trying to escape from this fucked up and bastardized version of the American dream
- The score shapes the action- sympathy and tenderness at times
- Priest is complex as a character- he’s both grateful to and angry with the guy who got him into the drug trafficking
- O’Neal isn’t an overly great actor but I love his glare- he has that down
- Not sure it’s in the archives without Mayfield
- Slo-mo softcore-like sex scene
- Social statement- white cops with brass knuckles
- Ambitious in stylistic intentions (still photography sections, camera movement, slow-mo sequences) but doesn’t stick landing in execution
- The bag of money switch-a-roo feels like it was borrowed for Jackie Brown
Drake2020-07-03T10:31:11+00:00
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