Shaft in Africa, John Guillermin, 1973, USA, Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay , Vonetta McGee.
The third installment in the saga of African American detective created by Ernest Tidyman , writer and screenwriter, among others, of The French Connection and the first two adventures of the character on screen is a good sample of the 70 films in relation to the display of a constructed type violencia.Nos find the shadow of Bullitt being a kind of Harry Callahan and James Bond one (although the trail of bodies left in its wake almost Rambo is worthy heir own) that represents another individual capable of taking the law into their own hands and fix things to so, in short all Carter, Callahan and anticipate Shaft degeneration involving vigilantes vigilantes who populated the film posterior.En film of the decade the presence of explicit violence is crucial, and this black version of Dirty Harry excepción.Y is not whether violence is openly treated no less so is the sex, nudity, sexual content dialogues open up delirious female character whose main feature is the nymphomania.
course the film is harvesting his time but most of all is a classic blaxploitation that probably takes the pull of the genre's most popular character and most commercially successful obtuvo.En this time private investigator Incarnate by Richard Roundtree is recruited to dismantle a trafficking organization humanos.Si While the subject is hard and today treatment that gives its writer, Stirling Silliphant , analyze factors explaining away or spend the minimum necessary force, is developed from working as a pretext frivolously to represent action or romantic situations in which it is involved the important subject personaje.La still in full force today and the team travels to Ethiopia to shoot the film could have given more of themselves and not just for show African country locations.
And if there is a characteristic feature in these films is none other than the music, work in this case Johnny Pate, arranger Major Lance, among others. Pate makes an effort to try to integrate the music into the story, a goal that meets at times, and has the legendary group The Four Tops to interpret the main theme soundtrack to signing a correct but that is far from major " soundtracks "of gender (Isaac Hayes own for the first delivery of the character, the impressive Marvin Gaye Trouble Man to or the lush of Superfly Curtis Mayfield ).
director John Guillermin signature style with its peculiar, distinguishable inter alia by the use of handheld camera that gives the image of a movement that many times is present in the film and the contemporary series, while more polished, a film that meets certain minimum standards quality and that has its roots in the temporal context in which it was filmed so remarkable for the representation of certain aspects such as the use of film elements (some camera movements and compositions, color). The care in the action scenes is above the average of the products of the genre but his script is disjointed causing an irregular rhythm despite the succession of incidents, many of which run without too much success and some occur haphazardly (the sexual encounter with Germany seems an imposition rather than a circumstance that occurs naturally) triggering this narrative development sometimes too crude, facts that weigh down the film and to be added the lack of seriousness with which address such issues as human trafficking and genital mutilation femenina.En the other side of the balance lie intelligent self-referrals (inventions and James Bond), the approach to any situation and almost continuous action in addition to putting on the table named items as well as the message of denunciation of racism acting out the character leading to a devastating phrase the commissioner francés.No forget that despite the "crossover" enjoyed by John Shaft blaxploitation the target audience had majority black community in the U.S. . While he's away from urban environments which generally operate the accounts of these movies, Shaft in Africa can be a good choice to view gender.
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