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Ganja & Hess
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In 1972, an independent production company known as Kelly-Jordan Enterprises approached Bill Gunn, a black playwright and stage director, with the idea of making a "black vampire film" with a budget of $350,000. Though Gunn was ambivalent towards the idea, he accepted the project with the intent of using vampirism as a metaphor for addiction. The producers' relative inexperience at filmmaking gave Gunn a high degree of creative control over the film.And thus, Ganja & Hess was born. Released in 1973, it's a blaxploitation horror film centering upon the life of wealthy black anthropologist Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones, previously the star of Night of the Living Dead), after his mentally-unstable assistant, George Meda (Gunn), stabs him with a ceremonial dagger from the ancient African nation they had been researching. Soon thereafter, Hess falls in love with Meda's widow, Ganja (Marlene Clark), who learns of his vampirism and allows herself to be turned.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Although initially panned by critics of the time, it would later garner much acclaim in art film and film history circles, seeing it as the first example of a "black art film". It would later receive a remake in the form of Da Sweet Blood of Jesus directed by Spike Lee, which received mixed reviews mainly for its own take on the film's subject matter. | |
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Abusive Parents: At one point, Ganja talks directly to the camera, giving a monologue about an event from her childhood. She got in a snowball fight, and when she went home her mother slapped her, told her that "Someone said they saw you being chased by a boy", and called her "a liar and a slut" when Ganja said otherwise. | |
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