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In a pandemic world, Watermelon Man
has gained a new timeliness, as whites now understand
the concept of living on borrowed time the moment you step outside
your front door, as African Americans always have. Like Gordon Parks
on The Learning Tree the year before, Van Peebles composed music
for his studio directing debut. When my father did Watermelon Man,
and they were trying to decide whether Watermelon Man
should come out theatrically, they were having a little screening,
and all the bigwigs were comin' in, and they're all white guys, and there's a guy, a brother named Willy,
who would sweep up in the screening room
has gained a new timeliness, as whites now understand
the concept of living on borrowed time the moment you step outside
your front door, as African Americans always have. Like Gordon Parks
on The Learning Tree the year before, Van Peebles composed music
for his studio directing debut. When my father did Watermelon Man,
and they were trying to decide whether Watermelon Man
should come out theatrically, they were having a little screening,
and all the bigwigs were comin' in, and they're all white guys, and there's a guy, a brother named Willy,
who would sweep up in the screening room
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In a pandemic world,
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Watermelon Man
has gained a new timeliness,
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as whites now understand
the concept of living on borrowed time
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the moment you step outside
your front door,
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as African Americans always have.
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Like Gordon Parks
on The Learning Tree the year before,
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Van Peebles composed music
for his studio directing debut.
00:00:21.521 --> 00:00:25.441
When my father did Watermelon Man,
and they were trying to decide
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whether Watermelon Man
should come out theatrically,
00:00:28.194 --> 00:00:31.781
they were having a little screening,
and all the bigwigs were comin' in,
00:00:31.864 --> 00:00:33.533
and they're all white guys,
00:00:33.616 --> 00:00:37.412
and there's a guy, a brother named Willy,
who would sweep up in the screening room.
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Movie Summary
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
