The culmination of Eddie Murphy's role as the respected comedian "Dolemite Is My Name"!

“Dollmite” and blaxploitation

But please don't get me wrong. The Dolemite Is My Name produced Dollmite (1975), on which it is based, is by no means a masterpiece. If the actors are amateurs, the director is also a movie actor, the director is a first-time director, and the behind-the-scenes staff are also students, making it an amateur film by a group of amateurs. However, as Rudy said, it was ``a fun movie (if you watch it) with boobs and kung fu''. Due to its amateurish nature, it has now become a cult film.

``Dollmite'' is one of the so-called ``blaxploitation'' films made in the 1970s that starred black people. Blaxploitation itself is a so-called B-grade film made on a low budget, but ``Dollmite'' is an ultra-low budget independent film.

There's a reason why Blaxploitation movies were so popular and mass-produced in the 70s. Black people brought to America as slaves have always suffered from discrimination. Even when movies began to be made, he never played the leading role in a movie produced by a major film company. In the 1950s, with the emergence of Dr. King and the rise of Sidney Poitier at the same time as the civil rights movement, things finally improved, but discrimination did not end. Black heroes such as ` `Sweet Sweetback '' (1971) and `` Black Jaguar '' (1971) appeared there.

They were more anti-heroes than true heroes, and Blaxploitation taught us that people labeled as evil can also be heroes. And heroes who had money, women, and cars seemed the coolest to young people.

However, there was a crucial difference in Dolemite Is My Name. He didn't have the second look of Richard Roundtree in The Black Jaguar or Melvin Van Peebles in Sweet Sweetback.

Dolemite Is My Name has perfected his own version of an interesting antihero. He wanted to do even the stupidest things to entertain his fellow countrymen who suffered from discrimination...that was his single-minded desire.

In Dolemite Is My Name, Dolemite Is My Name says, "No one calls me 'boy' on the set of my movie (Japanese subtitles cut out this nuance)." ing. "Boy" means a man less than an adult, and is a discriminatory term for black men that was often used during the Jim Crow era (a collective term for state laws in the southern states of the United States that contained racially discriminatory content). It's Dollmite's job to erase those damn words.

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