AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Superfly car12/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Drug dealer Jackson Priest is now being played by Grown-ish star Trevor Jackson, who brings his own brand of youthful cool to the role. We’re still getting characters that carry the same names and motivations. ![]() African American dealer Youngblood Priest served as the main protagonist who spent a plot line’s worth trying to quit the game by any means necessary.Īs a piece of history alone, the film helped shift the way blackness was portrayed on camera with an unfiltered cool and confidence as displayed through its imagery, music, and style.īased on the most recent trailer, the 21st century update might feel like a world away from the era of the original, but the core of Director X’s reimagining remains the same. It fashioned itself in a lo-crime drama set by the vision of Gordon Parks Jr and a 1970s Harlem. The original Superfly of course stood as one of the more enduring films of the Blaxploitation era (dealers, pimps, and fisticuffs against The Man).
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |