Michael Jai White and crew created an underrated yet hilarious Blaxploitation parody in their loving, perfectly executed Black Dynamite.
, where a racist scientist creates a poison that only affects Black people. The film even has the weird, atonal moral reversal that so many movies tacked onto their endings so that their antiheroes were able to make it past the censors and get to audiences in the first place.
Once we get deeper into his character, we learn that Black Dynamite is haunted by the specter of his decade, the Vietnam War. It uses this grounding period detail to grapple with the casual racism pervading some Blaxploitation films that incorporated chopsocky elements, aiming to exploit the martial arts prowess of Jim Kelly. Recalling his time in Vietnam, Black Dynamite says “Chinese” about a hundred times when describing a mutilated Vietnamese child.
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