I didn’t know he had past, I loved the movie Thomasine and Bushrod so much I got one the original movie stills printed in 1974 . What an amazing actor.
Max Julien was so influential and the movie was so fantastic when it came out. May he rest in peace ✌️ Gone but never forgotten. The Mack will live on.
My dad named me Max Julien because he was so into this era. I now have 2 sons that one is named Max and the other is named Julian. Also I never understood why Willie Hutch doesn’t get the recognition like other musicians from the era.
He got his just due as a composer. He scored The Mack. Foxy Brown and he did The Last Dragon. Just the competition in that era & he stayed with Motown too long. Berry Gordy only cared for certain people on that label
REst in power max u are the reason anyone who came from this era and was born and raised during this time got to witness some of the greatest black films , actors , music tv etc.... ever !!!! i'm glad i was born then i came up on the best .
I hope people will remember Max Julien's contributions. I was born and raised in Oakland but lived in another state & city when this movie came out. The scene at the pool hall was near my parent's home (now condominiums). Brings back a lot of memories.
R.I.P Max Julien and R.I.P Richard Pryor and Dick Anthony Williams and Carol Speed and R.I.P Roger E Mosley and R.I.P Frank Grimes and Juanita Moore and plus Don Gordon R.I.P Paul Harris and everybody who's played on The Mack 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽💯💯💯💯 and R.I.P Willie Hutch 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽💯💯💯💯
The soundtrack was so dope. I was told my great uncle was a pimp. He had some of the nicest suits that took from my grand mother. They were old and in excellent condition..
Growing up in DC as a young kid, seeing the homie Max on the big screen and then turn around and see him in the mall in the city made me believe anything is possible if I put my mind to it
what year was that 70's? or recently?, I would have like to seen him in his hay days, when he was "Fine as "fuk", not now, too old and tired, like the rest of us from the 70's...lol..😂😂😂
I watched this movie a 1000 times and thought I had the full understanding down pack. But after watching this Documentary I truly can say I didn't understand the true meaning of "THE MACK" until now. Endless salute to all the cast, players, black Panthers, etc and most of all RIP to Frank Ward, and Max Julien #FactsOfLife 💯💪
love this movie......loved it back in the day and still enjoy..............one of a handful of black movies from the 70's that I will watch whenever it comes on........the soundtrack is superb..............the soundtrack to SUPERFLY will always be my favorite.......... the movie was the shit back in the day but I never watch it....GOLDIE FOREVER.........
PS- Thank you to all who participated in the creation process and delivery of this epic creation. As well as the soundtrack, Brother Huey Newton, Mr. Ward, Brothers' Max Julien, Willie Hutch, Richard Pryor and a host of equally great sisters and brothers. Thank you, all endearingly and forevermore.
I'm from North Oakland. I was 11 years old when they filmed the Mack me and my 5 brothers snuck into the theater to see the Mack and Coffy at Eastmont Mall in east Oakland in 1974.
That's a conquencedence! I also grew up in North Oakland on this street called Aileen Street! Went to Santa Fe Elementary, Claremont Junior High School and graduated from Oakland Tech in 1981! I'm a movie buff and grew up watching all these great flicks: The Mack, SuperFly, Black Caesar, Sparkle, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Truck Turner, Cleopatra Jones! But my all time favorite flick back then was J.D.'s Revenge! Use to go to the Roxie, The Lux and the Eastmont Cinemas! We probably know each other by face! Small world! Nuff Said!
Wow. I saw The Mack when I was a kid. I did not know the history behind it until now. I always remembered Max Julien as the star just like I remember Richard Roundtree as Shaft and Ron O'Neal as Super Fly and of course Pam Greer as Coffy. I actually saw Pam Greer and Willie Hutch once when they came to the Lincoln movie Theater in Washington DC for a premier. I waited in the rain for them. This was way back in the day so no cell phone camera. I just have my memory which is good enough. :)
Wow it's good to know the truth about the Movie I was a teen yongsta when I saw the movie and good to hear about the Black Panthers that tried to help our people for the righteousness not to destroy themselves...
Damn, I was looking all over for this film on Roku TV all this weekend and its unavailable and I would have never thought that he'd die during my search. I have it on VHS. Rest in peace, Max.
I have the DVD of The Mack. I watch it a couple times a year. Now that I know how "real and raw" the creation of it was, I have more and a better appreciation for the story. GREAT documentary! 👍🏽👍🏽
MAX JULIEN WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY 💜 THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER THEY SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT HIS LIFE IT WILL BE JUST AS BIG AS THE MACK. THINK ABOUT IT PLEASE HE DESERVES IT!!!! 🙏❤️
The behind the scenes documentary about this movie to me is better than the movie itself because you learn about the ward brothers because they were all in the movie and they made the script come alive
I had the pleasure of meeting Max Julien while I was in a checkout line behind while shopping. He purchased a leather coat. We conversed outside on the parking lot for about 20 minutes. Found him to be very intellectually humble.
I still can't believe he's gone his quotes and the way he talked was unbelievable I mean he had it down to a T. He was ours I guess that's the one thing I can say he belonged to us. Rest in peace Max Julien, you always be Goldie
The Mack was the 1st and one of the best 70,s movie I saw in ST Petersburg FL and Saw it over and over again.My mother lived in Oakland CA at the time.The first time I went to the State Theater.I fell in love with him and his wife and knowing that my mom ❤️ lived in the same city and state that I plan to go one day.🤗 well I made the trip and I have been here since 1985.Max Julian, I will keep you in my thoughts and smile on the fact that you through this ❤️ for the movie and my mom and you help me grow up with life.
I knew men like this. I used to see them when I left school. I watched them film Superfly in my neighborhood. I saw the players balls in Harlem. I went to thx Jewel box review at the Apollo theatre. Even the conversation is real slang that was used during that time. This whole entire movie was true to life. The drugs scenes were so real.
This is the greatest movie ever cast its pure gold me and my home boy watch this movie at the famous carver theater on parramore ave in Orlando fla in the 70 guys it could not been any better than this we will never forget our brother and sister s whom made such a great movie
Beautiful Man..it was just something about him..his face..he really owned this film. Let's not forget his movie Thomasina and Bushrod..also a classic. RIP.. the Mack will always be a classic film.
I am from Oakland, California. I knew several people who were in this movie . The kid who was in the scene who said he wanted to be like Goldie is now a bus driver for Muni. The guy in the barbershop scene who had on purple is a pastor of a church now and the club scene with the soul group who wore blue the lead singer is my best friends father I think the group name was The Moments .
Max Julien was born January 1st 1945, and there is absolutely no evidence that he ever did drugs, he was a classical Actor, he also designed clothes for some of the Rappers he has always been and still is highly intelligent, he is married to former Actress Annabella Chavers and to me he looks pretty good for his age, love the movie, love this documentary, love me some Max Julien ❤️💯
That's the most I've learned about Max Julian.. My mother took me to see the Mack, I was no more than 10 years old. Even at 10 years old I thought that he good looking.
INCREDIBLE!!! This documentary on the Mack was so fucking GREAT!!! Did you hear the rap, lingo, the lines they were saying?!!! Some legendary quotes in the history cinematography! The dissing of the cops just how they put words and statements together was 1,000 percent on point. Scarface and the Godfather was good but, I'm not not Cuban, or Italian. The Mack is where it's At because I'm Black, and that a Fact!!! 👊🏿✌🏿
Max Julien is of Native American descent he favors and sounds like my father. This entire Musical score is stellar. I knew Frank Ward was real and not a fictional person.
I have ALWAYS said that about Max Julien as well. As a matter of fact the OLDER he got the MORE APPARENT it became. If anyone disagrees, then just look at his Native American features. Many African Americans are mixed with Native American ancestry. I still have a book that I purchased in the 90's titled "BLACK INDIANS" written by William Loren Katz who explained the relationship between the two groups. I have Cherokee ancestry in my family and I can still see the features of Native Americans in many of my African American family members. Most groups of Native Americans refuse to acknowledge this and years ago on the news I saw a tribe who wanted to cut all ties with their African American brothers and sisters. I cannot remember which tribe though. RIP Max Julien.
The story of Goldie is about my friend Fahali Wards daddy Frank Ward and his brother Tony Ward from Louisiana who migrated to Oakland in the 50's and grew to be the biggest gangster in Oakland. Unfortunately my friend daddy didn't see his movie made because Fahali's daddy Frank was murdered right before the movie The Mack premiered in February 1973, he died at the young age of 33 years old. The question is who murdered my friends father Frank Ward ? Well word on the streets in the early 70's it was allegedly the Black Panthers!!!! Yes, Huey Newton and Bobby Seals are possibly responsible for my friends father death!!! I watched this movie being made as a child in Oakland and I watched my friend Fahali Ward sad everyday not knowing his daddy Frank, but Frank left his son a 1972 silver and grey Rose Royce I used to look at almost everyday. There is more evidence that point to the Black Panthers pertaining Frank Wards death but you'll have to wait until my book comes out about the city of Oakland. I will be talking about the Black migrants who left the south after World War II to become long shore men in Oakland to the introduction of Lesane Crooks aka Tupac Shakur!!!
I saw this movie when I was a teen. I never knew that when I grew up. I would actually be in Oakland. I took messages for the Fouche Hudson Funeral Home. The Sneaky Fox waz on my bus route!! Wow! Rest easy Max Julien!!!
I've seen this movie more times than I can count. My two favorites lines: When Goldie is talking to Slim in the bar reflecting on how women would risk their lives on the street to get her Pimp's money and he tells Slim, "Oh, I'm not talking about me; I'm talking about those other dudes". And when Pretty tony loses his girl to Goldie in the pool hall and his only retort to Goldie was "You ain't no pimp; you're a rest haven for hoes"
Heavy. Peace to Richard Pryor, Max Julien the whole cast , Willie Hutch and the peple of Oakland Ca. "Dizzy world, my mind's in a daze. Plastic smiles mixed up, with phony ways."- The Ballads Uptight is a classic film as well Juanita Moore also played Max Julien's mom. I didn't know that Barbershop or pool hall was in North Oakland.
Just as Ron O' Neal was the perfect actor to play Priest in "Superfly", Max Julian was the perfect actor to play Goldie in "The Mack." They both infused their characters with an incredible blend of power and charisma along with an underlying vulnerability. These outstanding lead performances are why these films still resonate today with younger audiences.
Hello foggy melson, i happen to come across your video, i gave a thumbs up/ subscribe, i remember max julien of the mack and the song if i am right called brothers are going to work it out. I was a teenager in the 1970's! I remember the song is song by Willie Hutch!
I Understand what they mean about Frank Ward. The close up shot of Him with His Brothers (21:16) is My Favorite Part in the Movie. I thought He was the Star. That clip was actually the first part I saw(while rewinding the tape). The Music fits Perfectly. A Great Segment.👍🏾
This is my absolute favorite movie of all time, and I have watched it countless times.
And didn't send a 304 know where yet😂😂😂
Rest In Peace to “The Legend Max Julien aka Goldie”. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾
The Mack is forever legendary
RIP WILLE HUTCH
@LEWIS JONES - which pimp was lewis jones? or was he a pimp?
THE MACK!! A Masterpiece and so is the Soundtrack by Willie Hutch (another musical genius)!✊🏾🙏🏿🌅
Rest in peace, legend Max Julien 🙏🏾✊🏾🖤
I didn’t know he had past, I loved the movie Thomasine and Bushrod so much I got one the original movie stills printed in 1974 . What an amazing actor.
He's my hero
He’s not dead dood
🙏🙏🙏
@@Killemkellz Max Julien is dead, look it up
Max Julien was so influential and the movie was so fantastic when it came out. May he rest in peace ✌️ Gone but never forgotten. The Mack will live on.
RIP Goldie AKA Max Julien. Another legend lost.
R I p to the 1st goldie
Max. Julien
R.I.P to the legendary Max Julien. The Mack has made him a household name and he will never be forgotten.
Norma McClure Helped with the ability to get the information and all she wanted was to get black people out there I MEAN REAL TRUE STORIES
The Greatest Film of All Time (Hands Down). Big ups to the entire cast & crew. Many Blessings-Gone, but NEVER 4Gotten “THEMACK”
Willie Hutch didn’t get enough credit for the soundtrack for the Mack.
Right there with Superfly soundtrack 2 me
I agree my totally
He didn't
Rap music took from these jewels and crowned what is now still relevant in the top charts today
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I remember my mother taking me and my brother to see this movie as a kid. It was crowded like never before for this movie.
How old were you???? I don't think my mom would ever take me a child to see that movie ...it's my favorite though
@@reginaldwilliams6241 I was Seven when my birther took me when she went ''on a date.''
My dad named me Max Julien because he was so into this era. I now have 2 sons that one is named Max and the other is named Julian.
Also I never understood why Willie Hutch doesn’t get the recognition like other musicians from the era.
I agree with you his music was Epic 🔥🔥🔥🔥
He got his just due as a composer. He scored The Mack. Foxy Brown and he did The Last Dragon. Just the competition in that era & he stayed with Motown too long. Berry Gordy only cared for certain people on that label
Dad naming you, “Max Julien” is pretty cool.
Beautiful names Brother 🖤
i love it ur name and keeping it going
The score of this movie...Willie was MASTERFUL. THANK YOU Mr. Hutch
REst in power max u are the reason anyone who came from this era and was born and raised during this time got to witness some of the greatest black films , actors , music tv etc.... ever !!!! i'm glad i was born then i came up on the best .
R.I.P to the legendary Max Julian(aka Goldie)🙏 Thank you for giving us a timeless classic that will never die.💯
I hope people will remember Max Julien's contributions. I was born and raised in Oakland but lived in another state & city when this movie came out. The scene at the pool hall was near my parent's home (now condominiums). Brings back a lot of memories.
R.I.P Max Julien and R.I.P Richard Pryor and Dick Anthony Williams and Carol Speed and R.I.P Roger E Mosley and R.I.P Frank Grimes and Juanita Moore and plus Don Gordon R.I.P Paul Harris and everybody who's played on The Mack 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽💯💯💯💯 and R.I.P Willie Hutch 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽💯💯💯💯
❤️✌🏾💐
The old man who introduced Goldie to the pimp game name was Paul Harris. A accomplished actor in his own right.
Facts... 💯💯
Paul Harris played a pimp in Truck Turner!
Q
Ha ha ha ha ha.
he also played Gator in Truck Turner and one of Kansas City Mack partners in Let's do it again.
The soundtrack was so dope. I was told my great uncle was a pimp. He had some of the nicest suits that took from my grand mother. They were old and in excellent condition..
this is a very good documentary really deserve a academy award🏆
One of DC's finest Max Julien
Growing up in DC as a young kid, seeing the homie Max on the big screen and then turn around and see him in the mall in the city made me believe anything is possible if I put my mind to it
what year was that 70's? or recently?, I would have like to seen him in his hay days, when he was "Fine as "fuk", not now, too old and tired, like the rest of us from the 70's...lol..😂😂😂
I watched this movie a 1000 times and thought I had the full understanding down pack. But after watching this Documentary I truly can say I didn't understand the true meaning of "THE MACK" until now. Endless salute to all the cast, players, black Panthers, etc and most of all RIP to Frank Ward, and Max Julien #FactsOfLife 💯💪
SALUTE WORD
It’s down Pat ya geek😂😂
@@wussup12345 🤙
Ummm, it's down pat, not pack!
@@reneedominguez3633 🤙
Rest In Peace to my frat brother Max Julien. You will never understand how much you have impacted many peoples lives. #Salute
Which frat?
@@dp7047 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated. Brother Julien is a 1954 initiate of or Xi chapter at Howard University.
@@musikaltherapy3094 Wow Phi! I never knew that...
@@busyrand I found out not long after I crossed. Definitely explains a lot about him.
@@musikaltherapy3094 p look o
love this movie......loved it back in the day and still enjoy..............one of a handful of black movies from the 70's that I will watch whenever it comes on........the soundtrack is superb..............the soundtrack to SUPERFLY will always be my favorite.......... the movie was the shit back in the day but I never watch it....GOLDIE FOREVER.........
PS- Thank you to all who participated in the creation process and delivery of this epic creation. As well as the soundtrack, Brother Huey Newton, Mr. Ward, Brothers' Max Julien, Willie Hutch, Richard Pryor and a host of equally great sisters and brothers.
Thank you, all endearingly and forevermore.
I'm from North Oakland. I was 11 years old when they filmed the Mack me and my 5 brothers snuck into the theater to see the Mack and Coffy at Eastmont Mall in east Oakland in 1974.
That's a conquencedence! I also grew up in North Oakland on this street called Aileen Street! Went to Santa Fe Elementary, Claremont Junior High School and graduated from Oakland Tech in 1981! I'm a movie buff and grew up watching all these great flicks: The Mack, SuperFly, Black Caesar, Sparkle, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Truck Turner, Cleopatra Jones! But my all time favorite flick back then was J.D.'s Revenge! Use to go to the Roxie, The Lux and the Eastmont Cinemas! We probably know each other by face! Small world! Nuff Said!
Wow. I saw The Mack when I was a kid. I did not know the history behind it until now. I always remembered Max Julien as the star just like I remember Richard Roundtree as Shaft and Ron O'Neal as Super Fly and of course Pam Greer as Coffy. I actually saw Pam Greer and Willie Hutch once when they came to the Lincoln movie Theater in Washington DC for a premier. I waited in the rain for them. This was way back in the day so no cell phone camera. I just have my memory which is good enough. :)
I like that.
We all started wherein Mack hats and Superfly, coats.to school, were the Mack.
Wow it's good to know the truth about the Movie I was a teen yongsta when I saw the movie and good to hear about the Black Panthers that tried to help our people for the righteousness not to destroy themselves...
Damn, I was looking all over for this film on Roku TV all this weekend and its unavailable and I would have never thought that he'd die during my search. I have it on VHS. Rest in peace, Max.
R.I.P. to the original Mack 🙏🏿🕊️
I have the DVD of The Mack. I watch it a couple times a year. Now that I know how "real and raw" the creation of it was, I have more and a better appreciation for the story. GREAT documentary! 👍🏽👍🏽
Max Julien was a deep brother off screen
I have 2 Copies of This Film on Dvd!
The Soundtrack as well!
One of My Top 5 Films ever!
MAX JULIEN WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY 💜 THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER THEY SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT HIS LIFE IT WILL BE JUST AS BIG AS THE MACK. THINK ABOUT IT PLEASE HE DESERVES IT!!!! 🙏❤️
R.I.P. Max Julian.
I love movies from this time period.
So do I.
This is one of the best MASTER PIECES I’ve seen. Which is why I have it on VHS as well
As DVD.
That brought a lot of good memories growing up in Oakland. Thanks.
Good gracious the actress who played China Doll😍 right now !!!!
The behind the scenes documentary about this movie to me is better than the movie itself because you learn about the ward brothers because they were all in the movie and they made the script come alive
Pure Genious..and boy that Max was an essential thinker getting all his thoughts out all at once.
Please don't get me started one of my favorite movies fantastic cast music and the lines iconic will always love me some mack
That was a bad ass soundtrack💯Movie and all i watch this every night to this day💯👍💪
Where can I buy this movie it’s not on iTunes
@@jamescarter2013 Ask her for her ### maybe yall can watch it together.❤❤❤
@@rickimhotep1236
I’m going to have to pass homeboy
I’m wifed up already G
Every night though Nikki😬?
Rip to a true legend Max Julien. You will never be forgotten
🙏🏽💪🏾🕊
THE SOUNDTRACK WAS THE BOMB!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘😘😘😁😁😁
R.I.P. Goldie.........Long Live the True Mack
Lol
I had the pleasure of meeting Max Julien while I was in a checkout line behind while shopping. He purchased a leather coat. We conversed outside on the parking lot for about 20 minutes. Found him to be very intellectually humble.
Rest in Peace Mr. Frank D Ward. And all those gone on and blessings to the visionaries of this aweso.e movie and music ooh wee I Choose you!
I still can't believe he's gone his quotes and the way he talked was unbelievable I mean he had it down to a T. He was ours I guess that's the one thing I can say he belonged to us. Rest in peace Max Julien, you always be Goldie
Now I gotta pull out my dvd and watch this classic AGAIN
The Mack was the 1st and one of the best 70,s movie I saw in ST Petersburg FL and Saw it over and over again.My mother lived in Oakland CA at the time.The first time I went to the State Theater.I fell in love with him and his wife and knowing that my mom ❤️ lived in the same city and state that I plan to go one day.🤗 well I made the trip and I have been here since 1985.Max Julian, I will keep you in my thoughts and smile on the fact that you through this ❤️ for the movie and my mom and you help me grow up with life.
R.I.P to the Legendary Max Julien 🙏🏾
I am truly appreciative for the explanations provided in this commentary.
I knew men like this. I used to see them when I left school. I watched them film Superfly in my neighborhood. I saw the players balls in Harlem. I went to thx Jewel box review at the Apollo theatre. Even the conversation is real slang that was used during that time. This whole entire movie was true to life. The drugs scenes were so real.
They say as soon as the black man got off the plantation, he started pumping us out.
This is the greatest movie ever cast its pure gold me and my home boy watch this movie at the famous carver theater on parramore ave in Orlando fla in the 70 guys it could not been any better than this we will never forget our brother and sister s whom made such a great movie
Beautiful Man..it was just something about him..his face..he really owned this film. Let's not forget his movie Thomasina and Bushrod..also a classic. RIP.. the Mack will always be a classic film.
I am from Oakland, California. I knew several people who were in this movie . The kid who was in the scene who said he wanted to be like Goldie is now a bus driver for Muni. The guy in the barbershop scene who had on purple is a pastor of a church now and the club scene with the soul group who wore blue the lead singer is my best friends father I think the group name was The Moments .
Muni?
@@roderickstockdale1678 Yes the kid now in his 50s is a Muni Bus driver in San Francisco.
@@leetheaarceneaux8151 interesting he must be mind blown seeing himself as a kid in 1972
@@roderickstockdale1678 It's short for Municipal....
@@chriso8193 …oh, ok. Forgot that one
HANDS DOWN AND UP ....ONE OF THE GREATEST BLACKTASTIC BLACKNIFICENT BLACKTACKULAR MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!💪🏿✌🏿💣🫶🏿👁️💰👸🏾🤴🏿👸🏿💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯✨👑👍🏿✊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
R.I.P the legend !!!
Max Julien was born January 1st 1945, and there is absolutely no evidence that he ever did drugs, he was a classical Actor, he also designed clothes for some of the Rappers he has always been and still is highly intelligent, he is married to former Actress Annabella Chavers and to me he looks pretty good for his age, love the movie, love this documentary, love me some Max Julien ❤️💯
Thank You,
Much Love and Respect.
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
YES. LOVE SOME MAX IT WAS A GUY AT MY HIGH SCHOOL BACK IN THE DAY WHEN THIS MOVIE CAME OUT LOOK JUST LIKE HIM I MEAN EXACTLY A CLONE OF HIM .
That's the most I've learned about Max Julian.. My mother took me to see the Mack, I was no more than 10 years old. Even at 10 years old I thought that he good looking.
Great documentary about an epic and deep film. Thanks for posting.
INCREDIBLE!!! This documentary on the Mack was so fucking GREAT!!! Did you hear the rap, lingo, the lines they were saying?!!! Some legendary quotes in the history cinematography! The dissing of the cops just how they put words and statements together was 1,000 percent on point. Scarface and the Godfather was good but, I'm not not Cuban, or Italian. The Mack is where it's At because I'm Black, and that a Fact!!! 👊🏿✌🏿
This movie holds a special place in my heart, an integral part of my child hood. RIP Max Julian, a true black pioneer.
Max Julien is of Native American descent he favors and sounds like my father. This entire Musical score is stellar. I knew Frank Ward was real and not a fictional person.
KARAMELDREEM- NO HE IS NOT, MAYBE HALF OR A QUARTER, BUT NOWHERE DOES IT SAY, HE IS NATIVE AMERICAN. FACT CHECK 1ST...SMFH
Mrs. Bernie Madoff descent means ancestry as well so fact check on you, Boo-Yow!
I have ALWAYS said that about Max Julien as well. As a matter of fact the OLDER he got the MORE APPARENT it became. If anyone disagrees, then just look at his Native American features. Many African Americans are mixed with Native American ancestry. I still have a book that I purchased in the 90's titled "BLACK INDIANS" written by William Loren Katz who explained the relationship between the two groups. I have Cherokee ancestry in my family and I can still see the features of Native Americans in many of my African American family members. Most groups of Native Americans refuse to acknowledge this and years ago on the news I saw a tribe who wanted to cut all ties with their African American brothers and sisters. I cannot remember which tribe though. RIP Max Julien.
The story of Goldie is about my friend Fahali Wards daddy Frank Ward and his brother Tony Ward from Louisiana who migrated to Oakland in the 50's and grew to be the biggest gangster in Oakland. Unfortunately my friend daddy didn't see his movie made because Fahali's daddy Frank was murdered right before the movie The Mack premiered in February 1973, he died at the young age of 33 years old. The question is who murdered my friends father Frank Ward ? Well word on the streets in the early 70's it was allegedly the Black Panthers!!!! Yes, Huey Newton and Bobby Seals are possibly responsible for my friends father death!!! I watched this movie being made as a child in Oakland and I watched my friend Fahali Ward sad everyday not knowing his daddy Frank, but Frank left his son a 1972 silver and grey Rose Royce I used to look at almost everyday. There is more evidence that point to the Black Panthers pertaining Frank Wards death but you'll have to wait until my book comes out about the city of Oakland. I will be talking about the Black migrants who left the south after World War II to become long shore men in Oakland to the introduction of Lesane Crooks aka Tupac Shakur!!!
I grew up in the Bay Area in 59 and the Mack is still one of my favorite movies and it was reality go job my brother’s
Such a great movie. SUPERFLY is still my favorite movie but the Mack is high on my list.
This was a huge, the music, the acring. Classic, classic..
Wow teen in the 70s we went to the movies every weekend to see the Mack and everytime was exciting as the first time great Documentary 💯👊🏿
Rest In Paradise Max Julien 💖
The best Movie ever!!! I love this documentary thank you. It was right timi g we needed this whatever they said about it it was needed.
Keep it real baby!😏
My favorite blaxploitation
Super-Fly was New York and The MACK was California. Amazing!
The behind the scenes and production is just as good the movie it self.
Just a classical film will always be a historical movie that I still watch i. 2021
Loved the Mack,black reality and the soundtrack by Willie Hutch, so much I bought the album 😘 my favorite song, I Choose You 💕
Killer cut!!♨️♨️🎼🎵🎶
Max J, died on his birthday! He will always be The Mack! He was a beautiful Soul
I saw this movie when I was a teen. I never knew that when I grew up. I would actually be in Oakland. I took messages for the Fouche Hudson Funeral Home. The Sneaky Fox waz on my bus route!! Wow! Rest easy Max Julien!!!
If you don't mind me asking what street in Oakland was the Sneaky Fox Located I always wanted to do a filming location video for my channel.
Max and Willie..did it..and cast and producer s
This was good info. Lot of pieces of the film I was not aware of. Thx for posting!
I've seen this movie more times than I can count. My two favorites lines: When Goldie is talking to Slim in the bar reflecting on how women would risk their lives on the street to get her Pimp's money and he tells Slim, "Oh, I'm not talking about me; I'm talking about those other dudes". And when Pretty tony loses his girl to Goldie in the pool hall and his only retort to Goldie was "You ain't no pimp; you're a rest haven for hoes"
"You a car thief! A CAR THIEF!!!"
Heavy.
Peace to Richard Pryor, Max Julien the whole cast , Willie Hutch and the peple of Oakland Ca.
"Dizzy world, my mind's in a daze. Plastic smiles mixed up,
with phony ways."- The Ballads
Uptight is a classic film as well Juanita Moore also played Max Julien's mom.
I didn't know that Barbershop or pool hall was in North Oakland.
Just as Ron O' Neal was the perfect actor to play Priest in "Superfly", Max Julian was the perfect actor to play Goldie in "The Mack." They both infused their characters with an incredible blend of power and charisma along with an underlying vulnerability. These outstanding lead performances are why these films still resonate today with younger audiences.
Rest in peace to Max Julien
True 80s baby Max J. ,Mr.T,and Dr. J. My first role models. Other than my mom and pops
I love this I wish the game was still golden!
A great movie & a good actor RIP
Max Julien's was one of the greatest actors in Black I really loved the western movie made
In 1968 I entered this world..and this movie mimicked my surroundings.
Why won’t they show this movie on any platform?
What are they afraid of?
RIP Max Julien and Carol Speed (1945 - 2022) aged 77 and 76.
I remember meeting him as a kid he lived across the street from my aunt he was a cool cat rest well
Goldie! Goldie! Rest Easy, Rest In Peace -Jan 1, 1945-Jan 1, 2022🙏💛💛
I wish I could find the full movie somewhere !! This is a classic !
EBay
Damn china doll still look good
ROCKY- ISNT SHE STILL BEAUTIFUL, PRETTY LADY, TOOK CARE OF HERSELF, MAX JULIEN JUST SAID, "FUK" IT....LOL..😁😂🤣😂
Hello foggy melson, i happen to come across your video, i gave a thumbs up/ subscribe, i remember max julien of the mack and the song if i am right called brothers are going to work it out. I was a teenager in the 1970's! I remember the song is song by Willie Hutch!
I Understand what they mean about Frank Ward. The close up shot of Him with His Brothers (21:16) is My Favorite Part in the Movie. I thought He was the Star. That clip was actually the first part I saw(while rewinding the tape). The Music fits Perfectly. A Great Segment.👍🏾
The Mack and JD Walker two of my favorites.
My beloved university Morris Brown band theme song was The Mack. We would blast any band out of the stands in the SWAC with that song.. (see Drumline)
Can u believe I was about 7yrs old & seen the Mack & understood the movie.😮
This documentary is ERRTHANG and informative!