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Super Fly
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A 1972 Blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks Jr.Ron O'Neal stars as Youngblood Priest, an up-and-coming successful cocaine dealer in New York City. After getting mugged by two junkies, he realizes that his profession will eventually only end in death or prison, so he decides it's time to call it quits. In order to raise money to start a fresh, crime-free life, however, he needs to perform One Last Job by making a 30 kilo deal. Too bad that almost every person he interacts with (save two obligatorily antagonistic white cops) seems to make it their mission in life to keep him in the business...This film is known for its soundtrack, written and produced by soul singer Curtis Mayfield. Super Fly is one of the few films ever to have been out-grossed by its soundtrack. Ironically, in later years, Mayfield came to hate the film, calling it "a TV commercial for cocaine."Some critics believe the film's glorification of drug dealers serves to subtly critique the civil rights movement's failure to provide better economic opportunities for black America and that the portrayal of a black community controlled by drug dealers serves to highlight that the initiatives of the civil rights movement were far from fully accomplished.note Indeed, one protest when the film was first released was organized by civil-rights activist and future Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, who ironically would himself be arrested years later in a 1990 cocaine stingHowever the filmmakers maintain that it was their desire to show the negative and empty aspects of the drug subculture. This is evident in the movie from the beginning as Priest communicates his desire to leave the business. As said above, nearly every character in film, with the notable exception of his main squeeze, tries to dissuade Priest from quitting; their chief argument being that dealing and snorting is the best he could ever achieve in life. This contrast underscores a major theme in artistic works - the individual vs the group collective.Followed by two sequels: Super Fly T.N.T. (1973), which Ron O'Neal directed as well as starred in; and The Return of Superfly (1990), directed by Sig Shore and starring Nathan Purdee as Priest. The original film was remade in 2018 as Superfly, directed by Julien Christian Lutz (a.k.a. Director X) and starring Trevor Jackson as Priest. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Priest's coke is described as "super fly". Then there's Curtis Mayfield's Title Theme Tune. | |
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High-Altitude Interrogation | |
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High-Altitude Interrogation: After Priest lets himself get captured by Gonzalez's goons, the kingpin drags the former onto his private jet, holds him at gunpoint while demanding answers about why he's tailing him, and threatens to throw him out of the jet without a parachute. | |
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Crapsack World: Harlem's socioeconomic state is so bad that drug dealing is considered the only realistic way to make money. Also, the cops are controlling the drug trade. | |
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The Big Rotten Apple: Harlem in The '70s looked rough. | |
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Dies Wide Open: Cynthia dies in this fashion after being shot by Juju towards the end of the film. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Priest's final plan to get out of the drug game and knock out Snow Patrol, Gonzalez and the cops relies on a ridiculous number of random factors, including Snow Patrol not shooting Eddie when he arrives to setup his false Face–Heel Turn in front of Juju, the group believing him and all turning out in force to Priest's front operation, Detective Mason finding the three keys of drugs in Priest's safe and taking them with her, the Mayor falling for the extortion ploy and Gonzalez's mother being a more evil drug kingpin than her son ever was. | |
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You Shall Not Pass! | |
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You Shall Not Pass!: What Cynthia does to the Snow Patrol. | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident: Scatter's murder is staged as a drug overdose. | |
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Adaptational Heroism: Subverted. It initially seems that Eddie has betrayed Priest (just like the original film) and joined Snow Patrol in order to rat him out. Soon after, Eddie leads the gang into the furniture store he and Priest have been using as a base, then flees just before SWAT units (tipped off by Priest) raid the store and kill the members. It's revealed soon after that this was part of Priest's master plan to take out Snow Patrol and Gonzalez's gang in one fell swoop. | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
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You Have Failed Me: Gonzalez executes Scatter after discovering that the latter was stealing money from him. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: Fat Freddy and his mistress are executed in this way, with the camera panning away to the skyline as soon as Turk begins firing on them. | |
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Eviler than Thou | |
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Eviler than Thou: Gonzales's mother to her own son. | |
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One Last Job | |
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One Last Job: Priest's idea is to get thirty keys of coke, sell it for street value of a million dollars, and then get out of the life. Unlike the way this trope usually works, out, he actually does escape with his life. | |
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Blaxploitation | |
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Blaxploitation: Hailed as a Trope Codifier and one of the very best. | |
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Awesomeness by Analysis | |
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Awesomeness by Analysis: Priest's Establishing Character Moment shows him walking into the club of a dealer, surrounded by men wielding machine guns, and ordering the man to surrender the keys to his luxury car as collateral while talking down the goons who attempt to threaten him (and pointing out that they're in no way cut out for the mob lifestyle, and aren't willing to die for their boss). | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man: Priest, always. | |
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B-Movie | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Deputy Commissioner Reardon, the Dirty Cop controlling Harlem's drug trade. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Gonzalez really loves his mother, to the point that it becomes a Berserk Button when Priest mentions her name during his High-Altitude Interrogation. There's even a scene dedicated to Gonzalez watching a soccer game with his goons while bantering with her. Inverted at the end of the film, where she discovers what her son has done (put her other son in jail for life) and executes him for his failures. Due to this inversion, Gonzales can be heard cursing his mother while being straped for Fate Worse than Death near the end of the movie. | |
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Fedora of Asskicking | |
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Fedora of Asskicking: Priest loves his fedoras. | |
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Polyamory | |
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Polyamory: Priest is in a relationship with both Georgia and Cynthia, with a Three-Way Sex scene being given prominent focus. | |
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BlueOniRedOni | |
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Blue Oni, Red Oni: Georgia (blue) and Cynthia (red). | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: What happens to Gonzales near the end of the movie is so bizzarely brutal and over-the-top, it seems like a scene that belongs in the Harlan Ellison Trope Namer sci-fi horror story, and not in a crime thriller movie with gangsters and gunfights. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Priest is seen early on training in martial arts in a gym. It comes in handy in the end. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Gonzalez's mother dispatches him by locking him into a machine that takes organic matter (including flesh) and transforms it into fertilizer, soon after he did the same thing to Scatter's corpse. | |
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Victoria's Secret Compartment | |
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Victoria's Secret Compartment: Where Freddie's girlfriend stores the roll that Freddie gets from Priest. | |
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Big Applesauce | |
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Big Applesauce The Big Rotten Apple: Harlem in The '70s looked rough. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Priest is an unscrupulous and violent cocaine dealer, but is trying to get out of the business and live an honest life. Another character remarks that he has no relevant job skills to make a living outside of crime, and adds that he does not have the stomach to be a pimp. | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: Priest has a lot of 'em. | |
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Incendiary Exponent | |
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Incendiary Exponent: Priest and Georgia manage to escape the ambush by Juju and members of Snow Patrol by using impromptu Molotov cocktails to hold them off while they run. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Mayor Atkins (who shows up in a seemingly-innocuous comedic scene midway through the film) proves to be vital to Priest's plan to get out of the game, as coerces the former (under threat of blackmail) to get him a sealed file on Gonzalez's brother from the county court system, then sending it to Gonzalez's mother, who kills her son in retribution. | |
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Cat Fight | |
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Cat Fight: Happens briefly with two girls beginning to fight during a party at Priest's house. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: If the filmmakers' claims are to be taken as true. | |
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Briefcase Full of Money | |
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Briefcase Full of Money: Used several times by Priest to deliver hush payments to the dirty cops, with Detective Mason even pointing how nice the designer bag he delivered looks. Subverted at the end, when Priest delivers an empty bag to Turk just before he delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: The narcotics detectives that are in fact running the cocaine business in Harlem. Deputy Commissioner Reardon is head of the drug ring. | |
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Resignations Not Accepted | |
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Resignations Not Accepted: Priest attempts to quietly exit from the drug life, only for Scatter to rat out the plan to Gonzalez. Gonzalez (in turn) has discovered that Scatter has been skimming money from the operation and has him executed instead, while cooly threatening Priest to stick to the plans and not go anywhere. This leads Priest to enact his final gambit. | |
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Paying for the Action Scene | |
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Paying for the Action Scene: The first scuffle between Priest and Juju leads to an innocent bystander being shot in the chest at its conclusion. While Juju flees, Priest gives the bystander's friends directions on which hospital to go to, along with a stack of money he has in his coat. To his relief, the injured woman survives. | |
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