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Because most of the "blaxploitation" films were made by White directors—they had Black casts but they had White directors—so I wanted to make sure that the public knew that I was Black.
Jamaa Fanaka's first project plays off the Blaxploitation's genre conventions, an adaptation of Goethe's Faust presented with a non-synchronous soundtrack and superimposed over a remake of Super Fly (1972). Often out of focus with an overactive camera, the film immediately exudes nervous energy, but unlike Priest's elegant cocaine consumption in Super Fly, Willie's arm gushes blood as he injects heroin. A morality tale in two reels.
