- Actors: Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, West Gale
- Directors: Melvin Van Peebles
- Writers: Melvin Van Peebles
- Producers: Melvin Van Peebles, Jerry Gross
- Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Import
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Capitol ( EMI )
- Release Date: Feb 4 2003
- Run Time: 97 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000714EY
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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
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1.0 out of 5 stars
my blaxploitation Christmas was ruined by this film,
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Ce commentaire est de: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (DVD)
the film might have been alright if it hadn't started out with about 10 minutes of child porn. I recommend putting this dvd on if you have guests that just won't leave. Nothing clears a room faster than a scene with a child that looks to be about 10 being forced to have sex with an adult. Worst Christmas movie ever!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
This film is for people who can appreciate independent films,
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Ce commentaire est de: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (DVD)
This is a great film. The story line isn't completely coherent, but the cinematography is great, the soundtrack is great and the cast is great. The film edits and audio layering are so seventies but, so sweet; reminiscent of seventies porn (I'm not even talking about the sex scenes). I'm really glad I picked this one up. This film is for people who can appreciate independent films.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Baadasssss is Bad asss,
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Ce commentaire est de: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (DVD)
This movie was revolutionary. Unfortunately it spark the blaxploitation era in cinema, a genre of low budget kill whitey flics, that with their high violence, low budgets, and great soundtracks(minus the political message of Sweetback) began to define an era in cinema when black directors where able to make black movies with black cast in leading roles. Released independently by Melvin Van Peoples in 1971 at a time when blacks in the cinema was next to non-existent (unless they were docile and shuffling their feet). Sweetback tells the story of a man that has had enough of the man and fights back. This movie was revolutionary from its polititcal message to its cinematography. The cinematography of this film which set the president for all other blaxploitation movies to follow was amazing.
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