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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.
- A Film Inspired by The Streets of Harlem
- Super Fly Emerges at A Pivotal Time
- A Drug-Dealing Antihero Produces Backlash
Still, there is a lot some people don’t know about the film Super Fly, including the meaning of the title—which describes the high quality of cocaine Priest puts on the street. “Fly was the term at the time,” says Philip Fenty, who wrote the script for Super Fly. “I just put super to it and made Super Fly… I could have heard it someplace and it stu...
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 cultures (As did Black-centered films like Shaft and Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song). And Black consumers were eager to see films st...
But not everyone loved seeing Black drug dealers and the street life humanized. Groups including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People criticized films like Super Flyfor their violence and depictions of drug use, accusing them of glorifying terrible people. Junius Griffin, then president of the NAACP’s Beverly Hills-Hollywo...
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Aug 25, 2021 · Super Fly R • 1 hour 31 min • 1972 ... plus food & drink on Fridays, ... Electronic Body Movie impressively documents the history of electronic body music as a genre.
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Jun 14, 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 ...
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 ...
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).
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Jun 11, 2018 · Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. With the remake of the blaxploitation classic Super Fly opening in ...
