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Baadassss! (How to get the man's foot outta your ass) - Mario Van Peebles, Joy Bryant, TK Carter, Mario Van Peebles
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Movie propaganda
A father. A son. A revolution.
The year was 1971 and the hot ticket at the box office was The French connection. Little did audiences and the film industry know that in the same year the birth of a new era was about to explode… Independent Black Cinema.
The city was Detroit, and a weathered Melvin Van Peebles sat alone in the Grand Circus theatre watching only a few ticket buyers enter where his new film - his follow up to the successful comedy Watermelon Man - was about to play. After months of clawing, scheming and fighting to finish the film he wanted to make, the moment had arrived, and in a virtually empty theatre, Melvin sat with just a few curious onlookers. By the end of the screening, Melvin was alone. No-one could have predicted what happened after that momentous end would be the beginning of history.
Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time with his début feature The story of a three-day pass. Filmed in France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco International Film Festival, Melvin's film was awarded the top prize. Saying it was controversial would be an understatement. In 1968, for a black man to walk up to the podium and accept the top festival award for a film he had to go abroad to make now that's how you make your mark. After his comedy Watermelon Man, Melvin was determined to push the Hollywood boundaries with the ground-breaking, and even more controversial, Sweet Sweetback's baadassss song. Turned down by every major studio including Columbia, where he had a three-picture deal, Melvin was forced to basically self-finance. Risking everything he had, Melvin delivered to the world the first Black Ghetto hero on the big screen, whether they were ready or not!
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film biography Melvin Van Peebles blaxploitation filmmaking
Persons of interest
- Mario Van Peebles .... Melvin Van Peebles
- Joy Bryant .... Priscilla
- TK Carter .... Bill Cosby
- Terry Crews .... Big T
- Ossie Davis .... Granddad
- David Alan Grier .... Clyde Houston
- Nia Long .... Sandra
- Paul Rodriguez .... Jose Garcia
- Saul Rubinek .... Howard "Howie" Kaufman
- Vincent Schiavelli .... Jerry
- Khleo Thomas .... Mario
- Rainn Wilson .... Bill Harris
- Karimah Westbrook .... Ginnie
- Len Lesser .... Manny Goldberg, Mort Goldberg
- Sally Struthers .... Roz
- Adam West .... Bert
- Ralph Martin .... Tommy David
- Robert Peters .... Bob Maxwell
- Melvin Van Peebles .... Author: Sweet Sweetback's baadassss song
- Dennis Haggerty .... Screenwriter
- Mario Van Peebles .... Screenwriter
- Mario Van Peebles .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Baadassss! (How to get the man's foot outta your ass) official movie site
- Baadassss! (How to get the man's foot outta your ass) film production notes
- Baadassss! (How to get the man's foot outta your ass) QuickTime movie trailers
- Awards and film festivals:
- Independent Spirit Awards 2005: Nominated: Best Director (Mario Van Peebles), Best Feature (Mario Van Peebles), Best Screenplay (Mario Van Peebles, Dennis Haggerty)
- Philadelphia Film Festival 2004: Won: Audience Award: Best Feature Film (Mario Van Peebles)
- See also Shaft, Shaft in Africa, Shaft's big score
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Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
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Security censorship classification
MA 15+ (High level sex scenes, medium level coarse language)
Surveillance time
109 minutes (1:49 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 17 March 2005
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