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#SUPERFLY 1972 MOVIE#
The car, a 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado custom convertible, Supefly Cadillac Eldorado from the movieīecame as much a character in the movie as Priest. Now we come to my favorite part of this post. In the mean time, he does all that he can to try to live the good life, from having a color TV in every room, to driving a custom Cadillac convertible. The story centers around a drug pusher-pimp who goes by the name of Priest Youngblood, a man who is sick of the crime life, sick of the streets and is looking for a way out. It’ll blow your mind.Īll that aside, it’s got an incredibly kick-ass soundtrack by Funk master Curtis Mayfield, including the title track “Superfly” and the instrumental “Freddie’s Dead”. Watch this film with the cellphone turned off and the computer in sleep mode, and try to put yourself back in that era of payphones and typewriters, 8-Track tapes and big American cars, when Deep Throat was playing at theaters in Times Square and Nixon was president. Now it’s a fantastic time capsule, giving us a glimpse into the bad side of the old days, the dilapidation of the crumbling city, the poverty, and the crime. It was made to show how things really were, to ‘keep it real’. This is, without doubt, one of the best movies ever to depict the conditions in the poor areas of NYC and the people who tried to survive there in the ’60s and ’70s. Now, let me lay this on you…If nothing else, watch this movie for the car.
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“Never a dude like this one! He’s got a plan to stick it to The Man!” It’s the modern-day (70s) Funk-tastic equivalent to The Grapes of Wrath. Today’s flick is soaked in coke, cheap liquor, prostitution and the pursuit of getting out of the ghetto. But sometimes they’re just so hip, they fall into a class by themselves.