How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (Baadasssss!)

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Plot: Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time, with his debut feature, "The Story of a Three Day Pass." Filmed in France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco Film Festival, ...( read more  )Melvin's film was awarded the top prize. Saying it was controversial would be an understatement. In 1968 for a black man to walk up to the podium and accept the top festival award for a film he had to go abroad to make--now that's how you make your mark. After his comedy, "Watermelon Man," Melvin was determined to push the Hollywood boundaries with the groundbreaking, and even more controversial, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Turned down by every major studio including Columbia, where he had a three-picture deal, Melvin was forced to basically self-finance. Risking everything he had Melvin delivered to the world the first Black Ghetto hero on the big screen--whether they were ready or not! More than 30 years later, history is being fashioned again in the telling of this very tale. Mario Van Peebles, Melvin's son, directs an honest and revealing portrait of his pioneering father. Mario now tells the story of the making of Melvin Van Peebles' landmark 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," including Melvin's struggles to raise money to fund the film under the guise of creating a black porno film. Melvin had ducked creditors, the unions and had to bail out his camera crew after they were arrested because a white cop decided "a bunch of Negroes and hippies couldn't have come by that camera equipment honestly." Despite death threats and temporarily losing sight in one eye, Melvin somehow managed to whip into shape a rag-tag, multi-racial crew and finish the film that would give birth to birth of a new era which was about to explode: Independent Black Cinema.

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  awiseman1986
  

  MCT:

  January 5, 2008

  The story of "Baadasssss" sucks you in from the beginning, and you won't want to walk away. The story of Melvin Van Peebles' and the ordeal of making "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" is absolutely riveting. One loves to watch him work, and the audience feels for him as he is beset by setbacks of all kinds. More importantly, this film portrays a key moment in movie history, giving the audience a greater sense of what movies are and what they can be.

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  adecker31
  

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  December 2, 2007

  Brilliant, ecstatic film making. One of the best films of the last ten years. Criminally under watched. It looks at father/son dynamics with amazing depth and that's only one of the many things it leads to thinking about.

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  SonnyLighstrome
  

  MCT:

  November 28, 2007

  This is a great movie about filmmaking....one almost as good as ED WOOD. It's about the making of cult classic SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG made by the director's father, who the director portrays.

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  andrzejbanas
  

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  October 24, 2007

  A great movie that is better then the film it tributes. It's not the late 80's or the early 90's anymore but this is probably the best piece of new african-american cinema I've seen from this decade.

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  Relic28
  

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  September 16, 2007

  This film is a must see, in my opinion. It is the story of Melvin Van Peebles (played by his son, Mario) who risked everything to make a movie about racial tensions and whatnot in the early 1970's. He said f-you to everyone who told him he couldn't live out his dream on his terms. This man did not take no for an answer. He bucked Hollywood, the machine, whatever.

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  twanUM
  

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  June 30, 2007

  I love the layering... Mario Van Peebles writes, produces, directs and stars in a film about his father (Melvin Van Peeples) writing, producing, directing and staring in a film. Reminds me of Tarantino, as he makes a film about a genre of film that also exists in the genre... if that makes sense.

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  April 13, 2007

  This dramatization only makes the aura of the original film even more amazing. A solid effort on everyone's part.

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  sunrhythms
  

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  April 8, 2007

  I give this movie a thumbs for me and for everyone one of my friends... Its deffinately a great movie and I think everyone should know about it!

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  January 11, 2007

  this is such a great movie and its so cool for me. mario peebles plays this guy making a movie. if you wanna make movies you HAVE to ese this. but watch otu theres some nudity and strong language in the hmovie so if you get offended by that dont go.

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  November 25, 2006

  Oh, hell yes. Here we have Mario Van Peebles' engrossing bio-pic about his father Melvin, who single-handedly invented blaxploitation with the 1971 film "Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song." An unromanticized look at one man's quest to fulfill his filmmaking ambition, with Mario Van Peebles playing his own father and giving one of the best performances of the last five years in the process. Cinemaslave has long prided itself on being about one's passion for film; here's a movie brave enough to be about the same thing. A stunner.

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  davmun
  

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  July 11, 2006

  Edgy, funny and inspiring. "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" may have been a breakthrough film, but this film about how that film was made carries all that was great in its spirit into a film which is far more fun to watch.

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  vidgeek71
  

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  June 20, 2006

  An amazing homage from son to father. It shows the trials and tribulations of not only independent film making, but blaxploitation independent film making.

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  Tripwyre
  

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  June 13, 2006

  I love movies about movies, and this is one of the best. 'Baadasssss!' is a lovesong to filmmaking, but first and foremost, a touching tribute to a father from a son. Surprisingly, Mario Van Peebles doesn't idealize his dad Melvin: as the writer, director and star of the film, he crafts on honest portrait showing the real man, warts and all. A great underdog story. Nay, a great film.

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• Rated: (R)
• Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
• Genres: Drama
• Released: September 7, 2003
• DVD Released: September 14, 2004

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