Does anybody Remeber a movie called Shaft from the 70s?!
Question: Great movie of the 70's.
The theme song was done by Isaac Hayes. And Richard Roundtree played Shaft.
Answers: Great movie of the 70's.
The theme song was done by Isaac Hayes. And Richard Roundtree played Shaft.
Yeah - John Shaft
Badass black detective
Of Course!
ya damnnnnnn right.
It was a good movie
Sure. The theme song was better than the movie.
Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
SHAFT!
Ya damn right!
Who is the man that would risk his neck
For his brother man?
SHAFT!
Can you dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about?
SHAFT!
Right On!
They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft.
THEN WE CAN DIG IT!
He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
JOHN SHAFT!
Yes, I saw it three times. Great Music
oh ! yes he was tall with a black hat ,Shaft
Of course.
Shaft was made by a seminal AA filmmaker, Gordon Parks, who was quite an accomplished photographer prior to becoming a director ( as his son is too).
It was a something more than a "blaxploitation" film which it is sometimes mistakenly identified as. Though it shared certain genre determinants with films of that ilk (Super Fly, Cleopatra Jones etc.), Shaft transcended the genre by not only having an empowered black protagonist in an urban setting, but Shaft (Richard Roundtree) also occasionally worked with white law enforcement, albeit on his terms. There are other reasons I won't bore you with here.
If you have seen American Gangster, then you know the character in Shaft, Bumpy Jones is based on a real person.
Issac Hayes won the Academy Award for his brilliant score of the movie and once you see the opening scene you will understand why.
Well worth 2 hours of your time.
The modern remake (or updated version) with Samuel L Jackson, though well cast and acted, suffers the same problems as neo-noir films do. The style and aesthetic is from a different era and recapturing it in a modern milieu is problematic.
Okay, who doesn't remember should be the question...
Of course, one of the baddest black cinema films out there.
"Can you dig it?"
Ya damn right!
Loved the theme song!