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Over the course of the movie he breaks all the taboos: he is sexually potent, he defers to no one, he kills racist cops, he supports black revolutionaries, he even sleeps with a white woman.
And he survives! No wonder the Black Panthers got behind the movie. It became one of the highest-grossing films of 1971 in the US, despite also being one of the worst-made.
Van Peebles at least had excuses for that: he did practically everything himself. He cobbled together the finances (apart from a $50,000 loan from Bill Cosby); he wrote, directed, starred, edited, performed the stunts, and composed the score.
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