Word: badman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likes of "the Great MacDaddy" ("Got a tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind"), who would turn white values on their head by being the "baddest nigger." In the 1960s black militants used such folk heroes as role models; Black Panther Bobby Seale named his son after a famous badman of 19th century ballads named Stagolee, "a bad nigger off the block...
...notable exceptions, have been background music. The reason is not simply that Paul Newman and Robert Redford make a lovely pair, cuddly though they are. It is a matter of social realities and society's perceptions. A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics. Men are presumed to be interesting. A female can play a wife, play a whore, get pregnant, lose her baby, and, um, let's see ... Women are presumed to be dull...
...another film from Czechoslovakia, made by Oldrich Lipsky, is a parody of an American western. Filmmakers of all countries seem to go through a period where they have to imitate old films. This one not only has a character named Lemonade Joe, but also offers Winifred Goodman, Horace Badman, and Tornado...
...Dancing is content merely to outline its characters' pasts, vainly attempting to maintain interest by keeping Reynolds' history a secret through much of the film. His gruff caricature of the efficient badman does not reveal a man who has thought out the world and rejected it, but merely a man who has not thought...
...sake merchant epitomizes the hyperbole. The only person in the town who owns a pistol, he takes complete advantage of the fact. With obvious pleasure he flourishes the tool and when he kills with it, observes the death with cruel joy. At film's end, in typical badman style, he pleads to be allowed to die holding his gun and after his request has been granted, expires while struggling to kill the samurai...