Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | John Amos, Michael Augustus

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | John Amos, Michael Augustus | A Sign of the 70's?

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	Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song John Amos, Michael Augustus Cinemation Industries, 2003 average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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In this breakthrough film an idealistic hustler becomes militant after witnessing police brutality and corruption.DVD Special Features:All new making of by Melvin Van Peebles: The Real Deal (What it Was Is) remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1/Stereo filmography chapter selection original theatrical trailerSystem Requirements: Running Time 90 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 000799106426 Manufacturer No: 23138

The Quintessential Independent Blaxplotation Film Of All Time!!!

I know this film has been trashed by critics both black and white for its heavy content (i.e. stautory rape scene, and interracial sex scene), but this film was given an X rating. Melvin Van Peebles, who is highly regarded as the "Godfather of Modern Black Cinema" put everything he had on the line to get this film made, despite the Supreme Court, death threats. Bill Cosby even co-financed the film.

Ten years ago, I purchased "Sweetback" on VHS, and I was completely, blown away by this controversial, yet revolutinary, independent Black film. Bottom Line: If it weren't for Melvin Van Peebles raising the bar in filmmaking, there would be no Spike Lee or John Singleton.

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A Sign of the 70's?

Let's face it, if it weren't for the opening sequence of the film where the director, Melvin Peebles, showed his 12 year old son having sex with an adult woman, this movie probably wouldn't have received any publicity.
The movie follows Sweetback's life from that first encounter through his adult life. All the while Sweetback (adult character played by the director) is running from the police and having sex in front of other people in the film.
I didn't find this film overly entertaining. The quality of the film was choppy and the sound wasn't great at all. The film seemed to throw in whatever politically incorrect visuals it could; cops beating people, young boy having intercourse with adult woman, exhibitionism, and something that appeared to be the selling of the lead character towards the beginning of the film. Maybe I miss understood.
I actually found the DVD extras more entertaining than the movie, especially the interview with Melvin Peebles. Again, maybe this was a picture for the sign of the times....in the 70's. I'm not sure I could recommend buying this movie, although I didn't hate it. It was just something to see for me. If you can find it at a low price, go ahead...you've come this far already.

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Good movie

One of the better 1970s action movies. Lots of nudity and bad language. Overall, I liked it but there could of been more plot development. Random things like the biker scenes happened during the film.

Well.....

I think the first scene could have been left out; by today's legal standards, someone would go to jail in a heartbeat. By the 1995 law, this would be a felonious offense. It should be cut completely out of the movie as a consequence.

However, the rest of the themes in the movie were reflective of their times, albeit offensive to some communities. It was a landmark film that pushed the envelope.

I would just say.....clip the first scene completely and leave the rest intact.

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