![]() ![]() In her analyzation of the film, Harriet Margolis writes that this is not because “ consciously chooses to reject his mother’s values as that he wants to establish his own based on the macho heroic values he learned during the heyday of Blaxploitation films.” These men also use violence when met with violence, mainly from the white man as seen when Kung Fu Joe fights off the white cops that pull him over – coincidentally, as he is driving an expensive car through a black neighborhood on the side of town. Jack Spade himself does not embody self-determination at the film’s start, but by the end Jack Spade has matured into a real macho hero – independent of his mother and Slade’s help. ![]() Slade and his crime fighting friends are examples of the typical Black anti-hero of Blaxploitation films that represents Black Power: self-determined men who call their own shots and control the people and environment around them. Due to its emulating Blaxploitation films, the movie’s storyline of a young black adult returning home to repair and protect the community from the outside influences of white power figures is a tenet of Black Power it is one’s duty to themselves and community to work for the political, economic, and social improvement of all black people.īlack Nationalism is also an important teaching of Black power that the film makes evident in the People’s Revolutionary Army, and its contradictory pro-black leader Kalinga. and Jack Spade promising to do something to stop its spread. The film opens with a “gold chain” epidemic plaguing Any Ghetto, U.S.A. I’m Gonna Git You Sucka contains elements of black power in its plot, action comedy and its soundtrack. Once he earned enough credibility to have his film picked up by a studio and a budget of $3 million, Wayans film his debut feature film in 32 days and received a gross of $3 million in the box office a month following the film’s release. Before making I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Wayans spent five years earning credentials for films such as Hollywood Shuffle and Eddie Murphy Raw. The film was sitting with friends and making fun of the genre of films that struck an idea in Wayans. The inspiration behind the film came from Wayans, who is a fan of Blaxploitation films, and his childhood spent growing up watching these films as they made up the majority of black films on the movie screen during the 1960s and 1970s. The film was written and directed by then first time director Keenan Ivory Wayans. Gary Owens – Pimp of the Year pageant announcer.John Witherspoon – Reverend at Junebug’s Funeral.With the help of his crew, before Jack sets out to take down Mr. Together, they form a team including Kung Fu Joe ( Steve James), Flyguy ( Antonio Fargas), Slammer (Jim Brown), and Hammer (Isaac Hayes). Jack asks for the aid of his childhood idol and local hero John Slade (Bernie Casey) in planning the demise of Mr. Big (John Vernon), the neighborhood chain lord responsible for the epidemic that claimed Junebug’s life. Surveying the old neighborhood, Jack observes the effect of gold chains on his community and desires revenge not only for his brother’s death, but for the community at large. after receiving news that his brother, Junebug, died of an “OG” – an overdosing on gold chains. Soldier Jack Spade (Keenan Ivory Wayans) returns home to Any Ghetto, U.S.A.
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