Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was a 1971 blaxploitation film. Unusually for the genre, it was directed by a black director, Melvin Van Peebles, who also starred, wrote, produced, and co-wrote the score with the then-unknown group Earth, Wind & Fire. The film, which was funded and distributed outside of the Hollywood system, broke conventions with its visual style, as well as its content. The film's fast-paced montages and jump-cuts were novel features for an American movie at the time, although it is likely that Van Peebles was influenced by the avant-garde films of Jean-Luc Godard, since he was living in Paris and studying to be a director during the mid-1960s.

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