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Tag: Richard Roundtree

The Sound of Shaft

  By Finn Odum July 30, 2023 July 31, 2023 Uncategorized
Shaft stands in front of two outdoor signs.

|Azra Thakur| It’s hard to believe Gordon Parks’s Shaft (1971) was released over fifty years ago. Its iconic first scene is still exciting to watch today: from far above, we see John Shaft emerging from a New York City subway staircase to the cold winter outside, set to Isaac Hayes’s… Continue reading

Tagged   action films, blaxploitation, gordon parks, Richard Roundtree

What’s Iconic About Shaft?

  By Finn Odum July 28, 2023 July 30, 2023 Uncategorized
Shaft reads a magazine shirtless on the couch, with a roaring fire in the background.

|Chelli Riddiough| What’s iconic about Shaft? The theme song. The beige turtleneck and brown pleather trench coat. The sideburns and afro. The $50-an-hour detective fee. The fact that detectives are called “dicks.” The terrible one-liners lauded as wisecracks. The unnecessary sexual Continue reading

Tagged   blaxploitation, musings on film, Richard Roundtree, Shaft
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