Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	John Amos Michael Augustus Simon Chuckster Steve Cole John Dullaghan
	Video by:	Cinemation Industries
	Sales Rank:	242548

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Actor(s):
John Amos
Michael Augustus
Simon Chuckster
Steve Cole
John Dullaghan

Recording label: Cinemation Industries
EAN: 9786304195390
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6304195397
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 2002-02-05
Universal product code (UPC): 000799106433
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)

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Raw, jagged, and explosively angry, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a landmark in American independent cinema. Melvin Van Peebles directed, wrote, produced, edited, scored, and stars as Sweetback, a passive bouncer raised in a brothel. Shot guerrilla style on a starvation budget on the streets of Los Angeles, it's a violent tale of Sweetback's journey from passive acceptance to political awareness and active defiance. He becomes the target of a manhunt when he kills two cops who beat up a young black activist, and he bounces from hideout to hideout before running for the border, all the while getting more booty than Shaft and Superfly put together. The movie was so inflammatory by conservative industry standards that it was "Rated X by an All White Jury," which the ads proudly touted. The unusual mix of agitprop and exploitation is directed in a jagged style that recalls Godard and set to a funky score performed by Earth, Wind & Fire, which Van Peebles intercuts with chanting Greek chorus-like slogans. Released independently, it was a huge hit and effectively spawned the blaxploitation genre, but none of the films that followed ever recaptured the energy, the anger, and the social politics of this breakthrough in independent cinema. --Sean Axmaker

Running time: 97 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)