Melvin Van Peebles - Mirror Mirror On The Wall
Melvin Van Peebles - Mirror Mirror On The Wall
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Added: 244 days ago by
dlashley
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How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) TRAILER (2005)
@ IMDB: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) (2005)
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How
to
Eat
Your
Watermelon
in
White
Company
and
Enjoy
It
Melvin
Van
Peebles
Mario
Megan
Gil
Scott-Heron
Gordon
Parks
Spike
Lee
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Added: 325 days ago by
dlashley
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Watermelon Man OPENING SCENE (1970)
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Watermelon
Man
Melvin
Van
Peebles
Godfrey
Cambridge
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Added: 484 days ago by
dlashley
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song TRAILER (1971)
A young African American orphan (played by Melvin Van Peebles's son, Mario) is taken in by the proprietor of a Los Angeles whorehouse in the 1940s. While working there as a towel boy, he loses his virginity at a young age to one of the prostitutes. The women name him "Sweet Sweetback" in honor of his sexual prowess and large penis. As an adult, Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles) works as a performer in the whorehouse, entertaining customers by performing in a sex show. One night, a pair of police officers come in to speak to Sweetback's boss, Beetle (Simon Chuckster). A black man had been murdered, and there is pressure from blacks to bring in a suspect. The police ask permission to arrest Sweetback, blame him for the crime, and then release him a few days later for lack of evidence, in order to appease the black community. Beetle agrees, and the officers arrest Sweetback. On the way to the police station, the officers arrest a young Black Panther named Mu-Mu (Hubert Scales). They handcuff him to Sweetback, but when Mu-Mu insults the officers, they take both men out of the car, undo the handcuff from Mu-Mu's wrist, and beat him. In response, Sweetback uses the handcuffs, still hanging from his wrist, to beat the officers into unconsciousness. The remainder of the film chronicles Sweetback's flight through South Central Los Angeles towards the United States–Mexico border. Sweetback is captured by the police for the murders of the police, but escapes when a riot breaks out. Sweetback goes to a woman who cuts his handcuffs off in exchange for sex. With his handcuffs off, Sweetback continues onward, only to be captured by a chapter of the Hells Angels. The female leader of the gang is impressed by the size of Sweetback's penis, and agrees to help him and Mu-Mu escape from the police in exchange for sex. The police find Sweetback and Mumu at the bikers' hangout, but Sweetback escapes on foot while Mu-Mu goes away with the bikers. Mu-Mu and one of the bikers (John Amos) are killed. After his escape from the bikers' hangout, a white man sympathetic to Sweetback's cause agrees to switch clothes with him, allowing the usually velour-clad Sweetback to blend in. The police find Sweetback's former foster mother, who reveals that Sweetback's birth name is Leroy. The film concludes in the desert, where the L.A. police send several hunting dogs after Sweetback. He makes it into the Tijuana River, where he kills the dogs and escapes into Mexico, swearing to return to collect dues.
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Sweet
Sweetbacks
Baadasssss
Song
Melvin
Van
Peebles
Mario
blaxploitation
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Added: 570 days ago by
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AKA "How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass". Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time, with his debut feature, The Story of a Three Day Pass. Filmed in France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco 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 groundbreaking, and even more controversial, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss 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! More than 30 years later, history is being fashioned again in the telling of this very tale. Mario Van Peebles, Melvin's son, directs an honest and revealing portrait of his pioneering father. Mario now tells the story of the making of Melvin Van Peebles' landmark 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, including Melvin's struggles to raise money to fund the film under the guise of creating a black porno film. Melvin had ducked creditors, the unions and had to bail out his camera crew after they were arrested because a white cop decided a bunch of Negroes and hippies couldn't have come by that camera equipment honestly. Despite death threats and temporarily losing sight in one eye, Melvin somehow managed to whip into shape a rag-tag, multi-racial crew and finish the film that would give birth to birth of a new era which was about to explode: Independent Black Cinema.
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Baadasssss
Mario
Van
Peebles
Melvin
Joy
Bryant
Ossie
Davis
David
Allen
Grier
Nia
Long
T.K.
Carter
Paul
Rodriquez
Adam
West
Marley
Mandela
Maya
Vincent
Schiavelli
Saul
Rubinek
Sally
Struthers
Glenn
Plummer
blaxploitation
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Added: 570 days ago by
tapehead
Runtime: 02:18 |
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