Super fly 1972, ron oneal, shelia frazier, carl lee, julius harris duration. Super fly 1972 plot summary 3 the daily routine of cocaine dealer priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire. Charismatic, bigtime harlem cocaine dealer youngblood priest rononeal drives expensive cars, keeps a downtown white woman, and plansone last big score to escape his life of violence. Super fly, a 1972 curtis mayfield soundtrack to the film superfly song, the albums title track superfly, a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film super fly giant panda song, a 2005 single by giant panda superfly, a song by 4 non blondes on their only album bigger, better, faster, more. Super fly is super entertainment with an indelible message. Super fly 1972 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. With a couple of new friends, he attempts to bring. Hear classic music from super fly, 1972, directed by gordon parks jr. Directed by gordon parks jr with ron oneal, carl lee, sheila frazier, julius harris. And the best parts of the superfly remake resemble one of those videos, utilizing director x. Tit stars nathan purdee as youngblood priest replacing ron oneal from the two previous films and margaret avery in the film, priest returns to new york from paris to find who is responsible for his friends murder. Aug 29, 2018 the original trailer in high definition of super fly directed by gordon parks jr. Super fly is one of the more enduring streetwise films of its era, due to the dynamic central performance of ron oneal red dawn, original gangstas, the sizzling score by curtis mayfield and the gritty direction of the late gordon parks, jr. Superfly is super entertainment with an indelible message.
Dec 06, 2011 a documentary on the 1972 blaxploitation movie super fly. Department of afroamerican research arts culture 59,285 views. The film is well known for its soundtrack, written and produced by soul musician curtis mayfield. Even if you werent born when super fly was released in 1972, theres a good chance youve heard at least part of curtis mayfields grammynominated soundtrack. The film was clearly a lowbudget endeavor, and the resulting presentation cant hide that, especially the audio, which can be quiet or muddled a fault of the original source, not the new lossless track. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. Super fly, one of the most significant blaxploitation films ever made, is as fascinatingly. Priest ron oneal is, by all accounts, an extremely successful drug dealer. But when corrupt cops working for the mob learn of his plan, they try tomake priest a partner rather than. The two films were such boxoffice smashes that they spawned a whole genre, the blaxploitation film.
Mayfield gives us the longest track on the album and tells such a gripping tale with such gorgeous compositions that you truly feel as if youve know the man all of. Reuniting some of the cast and crew and examining the impact of the movie. Like shaft from 1971 it was one of the first films starring strong black characters with a mostly black cast. Ron oneal, 66, actor who starred in superfly films the new. Super fly was a slick urban romp had an appeal to its adult audiences,but because of the content of the film and its usage of drug abuse and drug substance together with the over count of its violent content,made it one of the most controversial movie ever made,and even for the year 1972,it was describe by some to be very intense with its. Smalldetails, so it seems best to make sure that both films. Based off of 1972 film super fly directed by gordon parks, jr.
Super fly is a 1972 american blaxploitation crime drama film directed by gordon parks jr. Super fly 1972 r 08041972 us action, crime, drama, music, thriller 1h 33m user score. Shaft is basically a standard action flick, a power fantasy for guys. Super fly 1972 40th anniversary celebration at museum of the moving image posted on august 18, 20 by willmckinley i want to thank you all for coming out for a movie that represents the renaissance of black cinema, filmmaker warrington hudlin told the audience at the museum of the moving image in queens on friday. The film was released on vhs in 1998, but it has not been released on dvd or bluray. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet. All the trivia you can handle about super fly, 1972, directed by gordon parks jr. Super fly, one of the most significant blaxploitation films ever made, is as fascinatingly entertaining as it is ethically wrongheaded. Parents need to know that super fly is a 1972 movie about a cocaine dealer attempting to make a deal large enough to retire and get out of the business. Super fly 1972 watching super fly decades after its theatrical run, it could be easy to fall into a trap of treating it as high camp, what with its almost cartoonish slang, dated yet awesome fashion, and the most ostentatious cadillac eldorado ever committed to celluloid. The original super fly 1972 is a film best remembered for its soulful soundtrack, its peacocking style, and its ostentatious displays of 70s wealth, all cornerstones of a particularly flashy breed of hiphop music video. Jun 18, 2018 admittedly, super fly comes with more baggage.
Diecut jacket vinyl release of super fly the original motion picture soundtrack on discogs. Thanks to the reliability of his trusted righthand man eddie carl. Among the early and most sacred films in the blacksploitation cannon, 1972s super fly is a. With a few changes in a rewrite it could have starred clint eastwood. Cruising in star ron o neal s customized eldorado, with partner eddie carl lee entering a restaurant where composer curtis mayfield, whose soundtrack made even more money than the movie, probably wouldn t have played, is. Theres also marijuana and cigarette smoking and drinking. Hes got a plan to stick it to the man super fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. It is directed by gordon parks jr super fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his. These distinctions are far too small to qualify for wp. He lines things up for one final score that could retire him, but things go terribly wrong and now his loved ones are in danger. The return of superfly is a 1990 crime drama film directed by sig shore. The original poster for the harder they come is dismissed as super fly goes to jamaica.
Ron oneal, shelia frazier, carl lee, gordon parks jr. Curtis mayfield, mayfield, curtis superfly 1972 film. Super fly 0085392888825 dvd region 1 for sale online ebay. The songs freddies dead and the title song both shot up the pop top ten chart in late 1972, with each single selling over a million copies. Rave to the grave 2005 at a costume party one guy tells another guy hes dressed as superfly and the other guy, a kid, doesnt understand who superfly is. A documentary on the 1972 blaxploitation movie super fly. The latest super fly 1972 film videos on dailymotion. Charismatic, bigtime harlem cocaine dealer youngblood priest drives expensive cars, keeps a downtown white woman. Super fly, a 1972 curtis mayfield soundtrack to the film superfly song, the albums title track. Ron oneal, whose role as the cocaine dealer youngblood priest in the 1972 film superfly epitomized the eras blaxploitation genre, died. Released 1972, superfly stars ron oneal, carl lee, sheila frazier, julius harris the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 36 min, and received a score of 67 out of 100 on metacritic, which put. Both films have been called superfly, super fly, and superfly. Oneal reprises his role of youngblood priest from the 1972 film super fly. Kaufen sie super fly 1972 super fly 1972 1 bluray gunstig ein.
But doing so would miss the cokegame forest for its widelapel trees. Super fly is a 1972 american blaxploitation crime drama film directed by gordon parks, jr. The daily routine of cocaine dealer priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire. Watching super fly decades after its theatrical run, it could be easy to fall into a trap of treating it as high camp, what with its almost cartoonish slang, dated yet awesome fashion, and the most ostentatious cadillac eldorado ever committed to celluloid.
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