- Willie Dynamite (1974) Willie Dynamite is a 1974 (see
1974 in film) blaxploitation film which features Roscoe
Orman (Gordon from Sesame Street fame) as a pimp who
lives the "life". This film, unlike Super Fly, is more
dramatic to which someone intervenes.As usual with blaxploitation films, the lead character
is seen driving a customized Cadillac Eldorado coupe -
the one featured in the film was previously used in the
Magnum Force (the Super Fly Eldorado seen in Magnum
Force was painted pink but repainted for use in the film
- the only difference is the D & G headlight covers
which were not seen in the Dirty Harry film). In one
scene in the film, the pimpmobile meets its demise when
several ghetto thugs vandalize the car to which the
hubcaps, grille cap, headlight covers, and lake pipes
were ripped.
The James Bond franchise once took on some elements of
blaxploitation during the heyday of the genre, in the
movie Live and Let Die (1973). (The plot involved many
black and blaxploitation themes, including drugs and
voodoo.)
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!, a 1970 sequel to In the Heat
of the Night, was, in style, a pre-Shaft blaxploitation
film. It is stylistically very different from the
original film. It can also be viewed as a 1970s cop film
prior to Dirty Harry and The French Connection but
similar in style.
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