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♪ ♪ come with us. we're 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, i'd 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 are right now, here in the mid-'70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. >> do you think "the ...

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 he's 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 they had never seen anything like that, and that becomes a moment when black filmmakers kind of look ...

I'm 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 that's beautiful and he lived a big life, man. he did his thing. he did broadway. we're going to bring "don't 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 did the artwork on the cover for the "black panther" label was henry douglas. so 50 years helpry...

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. i'm 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 2020, it was selected for a preservation by the library of congress. i mean that is a distinct hon...