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Super Fly. (1972 film) Super Fly is a 1972 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business. The film is well known for its soundtrack, written and produced by soul musician Curtis Mayfield.
Aug 4, 2022 · Super Fly came along at a crucial moment for the film world; Mafia movie classic The Godfather, released a few months earlier, proved there was a market for antiheroes rooted in authentic ethnic ...
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The term "blaxploitation" first appeared in the wake of Super Fly's release, as a Junius Griffin quotation in al "NAACP Takes Militant Stand on Black Exploitation Films," Hollywood Reporter, August 10, 1972. Shaft (which (3x. earned $7 million) was the only blaxploitation film to return more than Super Fly ($6.4 million).
Superfly is a 2018 American action crime thriller film and a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly. The film was directed by Director X, written by Alex Tse and stars Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Michael K. Williams, Lex Scott Davis, and Jennifer Morrison. Rapper Future produced alongside Joel Silver, as well as writing the film's ...
Jun 12, 2018 · The remake of the 1972 classic film hits theaters Wednesday. Here are five key things you should know before walking into the theater. There's Hollywood history around the original 'Super Fly'
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Jun 18, 2018 · Back then, the notion of a movie about a criminal — particularly a nonwhite one— who gets away with it still felt new. ( Super Fly followed The Godfather into theaters by just a few months.) In the gangster pictures and films noir that predated blaxploitation, outlaws were usually punished for their transgressions, whether it was karma or just the Production Code.
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Jun 12, 2018 · Forty-six years later, there’s a new “Superfly” on the scene, and Priest, now played by the strikingly handsome Trevor Jackson (“Grown-ish”), is still a pusherman gunning for early ...
