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♪ ♪ come with us. were heading for the valley. >> going where? did you say? >> mexico. >> all the way down. >> you going all the way to mexico tonight in this old heap of junk? >> reckon the town will get along without us tli monday? >> oh, i reckon. i was young enough to bounce that far, id go with you. >> "the last picture show" was a movie that, however old i was when i saw it, i said, oh my god this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we ...

The black panther party said it was the cultural representation of the black revolution. >> "sweet back" is a hustler and a gigolo but he is galvanize it when he watches police brutalize a young man. he decides to take the police officers down physically and violently. as a result hes on the lam. you know as a film goer he is going to get caught, he will be convicted, he will be shot by the police, and none of those things happen. i can remember seeing that movie. people were cheering because th...

Im a -- say hi, boy. >> hi. [ laughter ] >> so we have fun and we play a lot in our family. me and my song hang together. me and my dad hang together. what is cool is you develop a work language but you have a father son home language and thats beautiful and he lived a big life, man. he did his thing. he did broadway. were going to bring "dont play a natural death" to broadway and as you point out, the criteria folks are bringing his movies and when "sweet back" was the hit of 1971, the guy who ...

I write about that in my book, and i talk about the imagery, and i talk about madea being really a giant f you to hollywood the way that tyler is doing it in down in atlanta and really paving his own way again. im sure he would agree with this in large part because of what your father did. i just want to say a couple things because you told me a very poignant story yesterday when we talked about this. sweet back was dedicated to all the brothers and sisters who have had enough of the man. and in...