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Watermelon Man
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Watermelon Man is a 1970 American satirical comedy film directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Written by Herman Raucher, it's about an obnoxious and bigoted white insurance salesman named Jeff Gerber (played by Godfrey Cambridge, a pioneering black stand-up comic), who wakes up one morning to find that he has become a black man, to his own horror as well as that of his ostensibly liberal wife Althea (played by Estelle Parsons). The film's premise was inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and John Howard Griffin's autobiographical Black Like Me.Van Peebles' only studio film, Watermelon Man was a financial success, but Van Peebles did not accept Columbia Pictures' three-picture contract, as he knew that no one was going to finance his following film: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The music for Watermelon Man, written and performed by Van Peebles, was released on a soundtrack album, which spawned the single "Love, that's America". In 2011, that single received much mainstream attention when videos set to the song and featuring footage of Occupy Wall Street became viral.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Angry Black Man: Gerber has become this at the end of his film, disaffected with the system and training to defend himself by force. | |
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Bringing Running Shoes to a Car Chase | |
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Bringing Running Shoes to a Car Chase: Jeff's morning workout is running along with a bus on the way to work (instead of just taking the bus). After he turns black he gets stopped by the cops for running while Black. They assume he stole something - why else would he be running? | |
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Black Is Bigger in Bed | |
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Black Is Bigger in Bed: Joked with twice in the film, both times with Gerber muttering that it's "an old wives' tale". | |
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Black Face: Inverted. Originally, the film producers wanted a white man who'd be made up as a black man for the rest of the film. Instead Peebles managed to convince them to cast Godfrey Cambridge, who was made up as a white man for the first section of the film. | |
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African-American Media / int_f6611684 | |
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"Angry Black Man" Stereotype / int_f6611684 | |
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Bringing Running Shoes to a Car Chase / int_f6611684 | |
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Color Me Black / int_f6611684 | |
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Just Woke Up That Way / int_f6611684 | |
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Missed the Bus / int_f6611684 |
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