Coonskin (1975)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Ralph Bakshi

Guionista:

Ralph Bakshi (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

20 agosto 1975 (USA)

Género:

Animación | Acción | Crimen | Drama

Frase comercial:

BARRY WHITE and his men are bustin' out to win! They'll stop the man from calling them "Coonskin"

Plot:

A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit...

Plot Keywords:

Mafia | Race Relations | Satire | Rabbit | Fox

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Very interesting

Reparto

Barry White	...	Sampson / Brother Bear
Charles Gordone	...	Preacherman / Preacher Fox
Scatman Crothers	...	Pappy / Old Man Bone (as Scat Man Crothers)
Philip Michael Thomas	...	Randy / Brother Rabbit (as Philip Thomas)
Danny Rees	...	Clown
Buddy Douglas	...	Referee
Jim Moore	...	Mime

También conocida como:

Bustin' Out (USA) (reissue title)
Coonskin No More... (USA) (working title)
Harlem Nights (USA) (working title)
Street Fight (USA) (video title)

Duración:

100 min | UK:83 min (video version) (25 fps)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Stereo

Clasificación:

Norway:18 (1976) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Australia:R | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Compañía:

Bakshi Productions

Trivialidades:

When Martin Scorsese was filming Taxi Driver (1976) near Times Square, he captured footage of people running out of a theater showing this film due to protesters setting off a smoke bomb. He sent this footage to Bakshi who said "I didn't know whether to laugh or cry".

Citas:

The Godfather: Nobody move. We are in a lot of trouble.

Conexiones de Película:

References Serpico (1973)

Banda de Sonido:

Ça plane pour moi

Very interesting

Streetfight (aka Coonskin) is a very unique film directed by animation pioneer Ralph Bakshi. It is an oddity of the cinema, and is very much worth seeing. It is live action mixed with animation, seemingly influenced on Disney's legendary Song of the South, almost as if it is a response to that flick. Philip Michael Thomas, later to become Don Johnson's sidekick on Miami Vice, and Scatman Crothers, most famous for his role in Kubrick's The Shining, are prison escapees. Charles Gordone and Barry White (yes, that Barry White) are Thomas' friends and plan to help him escape prison. They are stuck at a police roadblock, and Crothers tells Thomas a story about a black rabbit, a bear, and a fox who move from the South to Harlem in order to find a more peaceful existence. The story is animated, and provides a lot of wonderous things to see. Like all of Bakshi's films, most will be annoyed and will dislike the animation. True animation lovers will forgive its clunkiness and fall in love with its inventiveness. The movie is very violent, very sexual, and it is mostly about battles between the races. For a long time, I thought I was watching something extremely important, but after a while, especially after I got done watching it, it started to seem more like a run-of-the-mill blacksploitation flick, along the lines of Superfly. It's very sloppy and doesn't really say anything. Besides, isn't Bakshi white? Whatever the answer to that, Coonskin/Streetfight is still very much worth watching for animation aficionados as well as cult movie fans. 7/10.