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Willie Dynamite
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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''The hands-down winner of the aII-out best blaxpIoitation movie of the seventies,'' decIares author and artist Darius James in That s BIaxpIoitation! WilIie Dynamite may not be as weIl-known as John Shaft, Sweet Sweetback or Super Fly's YoungbIood Priest, but he certainly deserves to be.
Who is WilIie Dynamite? He s the flashiest pimp in New York he drives a personaIized purple-and-gold CadiIIac and wears some of the most eye-catching outfits ever seen on a cinema screen. He wants to be number one, but with the poIice, the D.A., feIIow pimps and a tough-taIking social worker on his taiI, can a man as arrogant and amoral as Willie D avoid a downfalI?
WiIlie Dynamite competes with the best of blaxploitation on aII levels. Roscoe Orman dominates with his centraI performance a star turn that's the equal of Richard Roundtree in Shaft or Pam Grier in Coffy. MuIti-award-winning director Gilbert Moses balances action and sociaI commentary as deftly as Gordon Parks, Jr. did with Super Fly. And the score by J.J. Johnson featuring Motown legend Martha Reeves is as catchy as anything composed by Isaac Hayes, Curtis MayfieId or James Brown. |
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