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Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song (1971) | User Rating
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Budget $150,000
Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes
Country USA
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• Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song
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Genre: Drama, Prostitution, Blaxploitation, Murder, Police, Cult Classic
Tagline: Rated X by an all white jury
Plot: Putting black cinema on the map and ushering in the legendary blaxploitation genre of the 1970s, Melvin Van Peebles’s SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG is a thrilling work of entertainment as well as a historically and ideologically significant essay on the issue of race. The film tells the story of Sweetback (Van Peebles), an apolitical black sex performer who becomes a reluctant picaresque hero when he kills the two white policemen who brutalized a young prisoner for racist reasons. On the run to Mexico, he encounters all manner of provocatively stereotypical characters, including a shower-capped ghetto thug who won't help him, a hypocritical Baptist preacher who also won't help him, and, of course, a host of women who can't get enough of his supercharged sexuality.Working overtime as producer, editor, and co-composer (along with Earth, Wind and Fire), Van Peebles delivers a film that is the true definition of an independent. Incorporating striking cinematic techniques into his production--including split screens, freeze-frames, and use of film negatives--he single-handedly creates a new cinematic genre, proving that true innovation comes from individual human spirit, not assembly-line studio efforts.
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