18-06-2013, 08:00 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I tried to down load Shaft but, ahem, will make sure next time there are no minors in the room when I go searching....it was quite alarming....So it will have to wait as my memory is too long gone to be of much use there.
We can't have that Magda.
Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the intro to Shaft.
It's a little slow, but its grammar and purpose are clear.
The streets.
Steam-driven pan past the movie theatres showing films about sex and violence.
Camera finding this black guy striding out of the subway into the streets, his big brown leather coat and manner establishing him as an independent dude, in control and confident in his environment.
The exchange with the street hustler reveals that he's some sort of cop but a fair-minded one.
Time for Isaac Hayes' soundtrack:
Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
SHAFT!
Ya damn right!
"Shaft" sing the backing singers - Shaft Shaft.
You dig it?
Then, guess what, he walks into a shop to get his shoes shined.......
:dancingman:
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war