It’s a film for young African-American men in the way Pretty Woman was for young American women – selling a fantasy of consumption, style and guilt-free retirement earned by exchanging large quantities of coke for larger quantities of cash the way PW suggests being a hooker will net you a Rodeo Drive shopping spree and a marriageable millionaire. ![]() ![]() This remake sets out to be exactly as meretricious as the original with a new Youngblood Priest (Trevor Jackson), who does have a great hairdo and snazzy coats, and a new city setting (Atlanta, rather than New York). Though one of blaxploitation’s big breakthrough films – after Shaft, probably the main crossover hit – Gordon Parks Jr’s Super Fly (1972) is a better soundtrack album than movie.
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