Movie
2000
Shaft is a 2000 American action crime thriller film co-written, co-produced, and directed by John Singleton and starring Samuel L. Jackson in the title role with Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Dan Hedaya, Busta Rhymes, Toni Collette and Richard Roundtree. It is a sequel to the 1971 Shaft film, in which Jackson plays the nephew of John Shaft. The film opened at the number-one position at the box…
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One of the most important important films in the history of early 1970s American cinema was *Shaft*. It launched a brand new subgenre of action thrillers known as “blaxploitation” and, more importantly, provided African Americans and black people in general with their own first iconic action hero, paving the way for elimination of the last remaining racial barriers in subsequent years and decades. The trend, however…More
