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Sunday
25Oct2009

Get the Score On the 'Black Dynamite' Score

DateSunday, October 25, 2009 at 5:51PM
Anytime we've looked at clips or trailers for Black Dynamite, which is now in select theaters, we've always mentioned how authentic it looks, sounds, and feels, given that it was made almost 40 years after the films it spoofs/pays homage to.

In the movie, Michael Jai White plays a former CIA agent whose brother is killed by The Man, who is also responsible for funneling heroin into local orphanages and flooding the ghetto with "a secret weapon disguised as common malt liquor." It's like it's ripped from the newspapers, isn't it?

Here's a pretty interesting video from Wax Poetics about one of the major components of turning a contemporary movie into a believable blaxploitation flick from the early 70s: The soundtrack by first-time film composer Adrian Younge. Check it out.

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