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A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

With The Learning Tree,they took a thoroughly integratedcrew and cast

With The Learning Tree,
they took a thoroughly integrated
crew and cast

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With The Learning Tree, they took
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a thoroughly integrated crew and cast.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
01:09:10
Uploaded
May 11, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Kunhardt Films

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Movie Summary

Follows Gordon Parks' stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic development photographing everyday Americans, through his evolution as a novelist and groundbreaking filmmaker.
They could work together. They could live together. - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:09
They could work together. They could live together.
He was not only able to direct the film, - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:10
He was not only able to direct the film,
I wrote the screenplay, I directed it, - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:30
I wrote the screenplay, I directed it,
The 15th and youngest child of a Kansas farmer, - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:09
The 15th and youngest child of a Kansas farmer,
And now Gordon Parks has returned to the town - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:30
And now Gordon Parks has returned to the town
Times Square, panned on off the skyscrapers - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:10
Times Square, panned on off the skyscrapers
And there should be a driving savage beat, - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:07
And there should be a driving savage beat,
-Mm-hmm. -What I heard you working on earlier - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:06
-Mm-hmm. -What I heard you working on earlier
One, two, three, four. - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:05
One, two, three, four.
How many detectives have we seen? - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:09
How many detectives have we seen?
Richard Roundtree was like this swaggering figure. - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:10
Richard Roundtree was like this swaggering figure.
I just said, "Up yours, baby." - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:08
I just said, "Up yours, baby."
Don't get wise with me, Shaft. I'll put your goddamn ass in. - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:04
Don't get wise with me, Shaft. I'll put your godda...
When Shaft interacts with the police, he talks to them - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:07
When Shaft interacts with the police, he talks to them
He talked the way he wanted to talk to whoever he wanted to, - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:12
He talked the way he wanted to talk to whoever he wanted to...
You were seeing that in the streets. - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:17
You were seeing that in the streets.
Shaft was the movie that kind of mainstreamed - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:08
Shaft was the movie that kind of mainstreamed
John Shaft represented Black manhood. - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:08
John Shaft represented Black manhood.
She thought it was a little too risqué for her baby. - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:12
She thought it was a little too risqué for her baby.
I saw it on 42nd Street. - A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks 00:04
I saw it on 42nd Street.