The trailer below could be for almost any film made during that period – he’s great in the sack with the ladies (both black and white), and he’ll kick your ass – or more specifically, Whitey’s ass! That about sums up a lot of them! He may as well have been a walking penis… a walking penis with martial arts skills… and a gun… plus a blow-dryer in this specific instance.
A true renaissance man
Thanks Sweetback!
I dare any of today’s black male actors to be even half as bold.
John Daniels plays Jonathan Knight, the owner of “Mr. Jonathan’s,” the most successful hair salon for women on the Sunset Strip.
His reputation as a lover has become so awesome that he is sought after almost as much in that capacity as he is for his experience as a hair stylist!
Everything is cool for Jonathan until he messes with the mob in an effort to protect his young attractive receptionist from her former boss.
Action explodes when the “love” machine becomes the “killing” machine. Jonathan, chainsaw in hand, gets down to the get down on the vicious mob gang that wrecks his shop and kidnaps his woman.
Here’s the Black Shampoo trailer below:
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5 comments:
i love this song!
FG, we are both cracking up on this.
part of me is all "omg no!"
the other part? well, i guess i can't fault a guy for pleasin' all the ladies. and being a total badass while doing so.
It's totally sexist. It's really racist too. you know much of this "Blaxploitation" wasn't written by Black people nor produced or filmed. That's why 'Shaft' is much lauded for it's black writer and film maker.
oh definitely. it's one of many examples of the long history of depicting black men as hypersexual. there's also the obvious / disturbing formula of masculinity = violence + sex. he's so badass and gets laid? he's so manly!
and of course the sexism of treating ladies as expendable...
any idea how this movie was received? i only wonder since the main character obviously has sex with white women too, and given that white people wrote it, i wonder if this was a progressive act, or simply to underscore the hypersexual thing again. i'm betting on the latter...ugh.
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