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Aug 4, 2022 · The movie's gritty, authentic depiction of street life and its flamboyant lead character created archetypes that have inspired legions of future storytellers and musicians.
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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.
Jun 12, 2018 · The original "Super Fly" folded in elements of the Black Panther movement, casting its lens on the poverty-stricken streets of Harlem, where dealing drugs was one of the few options for...
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Jun 11, 2018 · Briskly paced, stylishly assembled, and complemented by one of the greatest soundtracks of all time (Curtis Mayfield’s songs are probably better known than the actual film), Super Fly is...
Jun 15, 2018 · “Superfly” reflects the gun-madness of modern American society, with drug dealers and police alike bearing arsenals-worth of military-style firearms and using them with a chillingly casual...
"Tryin' to Get Over": Super Fly, Black Politics, and Post-Civil Rights Film Enterprise by ElTHNE Quinn Abstract: Super Fly was a landmark case of African American participation in major release filmmaking. The film's narrative about Harlem cocaine dealers dramatized black business dynamism operating inside white-dominated power structures, and ...
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Jun 13, 2018 · The best way to describe why "SuperFly" doesn't surpass Gordon Parks Jr.'s creation is to describe Director X's take on the original's infamous cocaine montage. Ron O'Neal objected to this sequence of people enjoying Priest's product, saying it was "a commercial for cocaine."
