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Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Joy Bryant, Rainn Wilson, Saul Rubinek, Adam West, Vincent Schiavelli
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Baadasssss! |
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Based on on his father Melvin's book, BAADASSSSSS! was written and directed by Mario Van Peebles in 2003.
The setting is Los Angeles in the early seventies. Melvin Van Peebles is one of the rare African American directors in activity and his last movie, "Watermelon Man", pleased the producers from Hollywood. Columbia Pictures proposes a three films deal to him then but refuses to finance the project which it has just written: "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song". After an unhappy experiment with an independent producer who is jailed for drugs traffic two days before the beginning of the filming, Melvin Van Peebles has got only one option left : to self-finance.
Melvin must employ actors and technicians not syndicated in order not to spend too quickly the $70,000 that he succeeded in raising. He asks even the members of his family to play a part in the movie and he himself plays the part of Sweetback, the main character of the movie. After 20 days of shooting, Melvin must still edit his film while trying to stay out of the way of his creditors. Finally, the premiere of "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" will take place in Detroit and the movie make more than $15,000,000.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Baadasssss! |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- filmmaker/producer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- (man) fat
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Misc setting
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- licking
- orgies
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
Is this movie based on a
- book
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