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    But they were also utterly empowering, gobbled up by African American audiences desperate for strong, and recognizable, working-class heroes. "These films made me feel proud in a way Sidney Poitier didn't; he was detached from the inner-city experience" says Josiah Howard, author of "Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide." Full Article at Los Angeles Times
    These films made me feel proud in a way Sidney Poitier didn't; he was detached from the inner-city experience
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
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1970s blaxploitation films: a lot has changed, but much has stayed the same
  1. They dealt with the universals of the time ... The Vietnam War, that it was a racist operation, and the cannon fodder were blacks and Latinos. Also the social concern that there was still a lot of racism in the country, the kind that was not so overt. And of course your universal themes of love, hate, b...
    – Jack Hill SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
  2. We were fulfilling the need of a public that was starving for a different kind of product, and the void is still there.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
  3. When blaxploitation films began to attract a universal audience ... it showed the bean counters that there was a universal interest in black characters and lifestyle. The major studios began incorporating these elements, so the blaxploitation films no longer became necessary.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
  4. It was just brash, unlike anything I'd ever seen
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
  5. The producers felt if you made a film for a certain budget [usually under $1 million], you were guaranteed to make a profit just from the black audience.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
  6. There was an obvious over-compensation of the hyper-violence ... which came from being oppressed. They were hyper-violent in the ways in which they dealt with racism; white people were depicted as evil. But they also reflected the paranoia of the time, there was a mistrust of government, and a lot of mo...
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
  7. is to put Samuel Jackson or Denzel in every picture. And Tyler Perry's movies succeed because there is nothing else. If that's all you have, you support it. But we're gonna get tired of Tyler Perry. He has to have a son who goes to high school and kicks some ass.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
  8. Where's our George Clooney? There are not many people who are representative of the black alpha male today. Once the mid-'70s and the blockbuster came around, Hollywood had no more use for these black action stars.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
  9. has fun with films in general ... It's funny to do it as a time capsule and lay in some jokes that are only funny when you're looking at them now. You look at the '70s, is there a more entertaining time? That time period was so alive. It was a great time for black people -- they went from their heads be...
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
  10. Sidney Poitier was a great actor, but he did not fulfill the void of how some blacks interpreted their impact on society. We needed something to propel the masculinity of the black male, and black women were tired of the Aunt Jemima character. They had the same needs we did.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 months ago

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