![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shaft, for example, grossed $13 million (which was a lot in 1971 dollars!) against its minute $500,000 budget. These were violent, gritty films shot on location in New York City, featuring black antiheroes who were cool as ice as they stuck it to the Man.Īlthough blaxploitation movies were aimed at an urban demographic, they resonated with the general public as well, and audiences flocked to them in droves. The original Super Fly, along with Cotton Comes To Harlem, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Shaft, kicked off the "blaxploitation" craze of the early 1970s.
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