When I was a kid it was a big complaint about that film. A lot of people boycotted it here because of the negative portrayal of black people. If I remember correctly the trailer talked about him being a bigot.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > Then I wonder if the racism of Popeye Doyle bothered him? I forgot how > casually racist people could be in films back in those days. Quite a bit of > "guinea" thrown around at a black man, "nig---" applied liberally, and a > healthy dose of scornful "spi--" to describe some Latino dudes who of course > were about to boost a car. All the blacks in the film are drug > dealers/users, with the exception of one undercover brother. > > Man, this reminds one of why "Shaft" and other blaxploitation films were > such a hit: at last we got to be the good guys, we got to beat up on people, > and we got ot insult/hit white men with impunity. Of course there's that > whole troublesome sexist angle to much of the period of films... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2010 3:22:10 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > > He said that it wasn't the physicality of the act, but the concept of > police brutality, something he was fervently against at the time. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net > Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:16:11 +0000 > > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > > Hackman had trouble doing a scene like that? Wow! Just a couple of years > ago, Hackman got into a fender bender, and the guy in the other car started > mouthing off, then came at him. > > Hackman wiped the street with the guy. > > I read a recent interview where he said he's done with Hollywood. Said he > was tired of taking direction, tired of having to sometimes fight with > others to get quality work done. Don't know if it'll last, but that would > explain why an actor who's been as much of a workaholic as Sam Jackson and > Michael Caine has been fairly absent from the big screen in recent years. I > wondered what had happened... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2010 9:01:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > I'm there right now, waiting for that chase scene, Keith. "Bonnie and > Clyde" I'll be passing on, as it aired just last month. "The French > Connection", though, is a must, particularly since I picked up a bit of > trivia about Gene Hackman's performance in it. In the scene where he roughs > up the suspect, Hackman nearly quit the movie. An ardent liberal, he almost > couldn't bring himself to do the scene. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net > Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 01:57:57 +0000 > Subject: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > > http://www.tcm.com/2010/31Days/index.jsp > > You know what? Forget SyFy Originals. Forget the eleventy-millionth airing > of "Caprica". Blow off Lifetime Movies. Turner Classic Movies is airing a > great block of films tonight. Starting at 8 pm EST, we have Steve McQueen > in "Bullitt", with the man-of-few-words McQueen, and one of the great car > chases of all time. That's followed at 10 pm by "The French Connection", > with a typically intense Gene Hackman in one of the other great car chases > of all time. And then, at midnight, it's "Bonnie and Clyde", Warren Beatty's > violent New Hollywood tale of the famous robbers. > > The movies are part of TCM's "31 Days of Oscar", a month long airing of > Oscar-wnning and -nominated films done every year. This is a great time to > catch up on some of the best films of all time, from "Casablanca" to > "Citizen Kane", from "Some Like it Hot", to "Cabin in the Sky". The good > thing about TCM is that in addition to showing Oscar-nominated films, this > being Black History Month, they also show a lot of classic Black film dating > back to the '20s. Ethel Waters in "Cabin in the Sky" is just one example. > It's about the only place I've seen this and many other of those films from > that time. > > Gonna be a long fun night! > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up > now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/> > > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up > now.<http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/> > > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
