"In the heat if the night" Not only that but let's do it again was and is a classic black flim an all-star cast of black actors and the soundtrack is crazy not to mention the production, and even the camera men , were black & Hispanic . UP town Saturday night, was another one, and their is still a 3rd film I can't rember. But do rember the opening scene with Jane Kennedy damn oh and Big George and Bill C.
As a Black kid growing up in the 1970s, I was watching films with guys like Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Richard Roundtree, Rudy Ray Moore, and Ron O'Neal. Sidney Poiter was great, but, he wasn't the actor that the kids in the neighborhood were interested in watching. I would love to read an autobiography about the life of Fred Williamson! I wonder why there hasn't been one yet. It would certainly be more interesting than one about John Wayne!
As a African American I understand exactly what he's coming from and I applaud him for that. It's nothing wrong with having hero's that people can look up to but Fred was just trying to filled a void that Blacks never had back in the 60's or 70's and I'm glad he hasn't changed.
I agree with you 💯 percent. Even growing up in the islands I got the point Fred was making with the movies he acted in and eventually started producing himself.
@@1990758 the only thing I do agree with is the only people you should look up to is God and family members. I don't look up to anybody except God, then my family members so in that case people who are fans of athletes, celebrity's or anybody that's well known shouldn't be look up to . I was saying have nothing to do with looking up to anybody, it was just it was never no Black hero's in the 60's or 70's that people can identify like a lot of white hero's was and still is.
@martinvanburen4578 Hollywood was on the verge of bankruptcy b4 blaxploitation took off. But everyone wanted to see blaxploitation, so Hollywood kept shelling them out.
@@westlymiller All over the world people all over copy our movements,slogans,marches. It's amazing that we take a strong stance on social issues and you say that no other ethnic groups take that heat first always us.
In "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), Poitier finds himself in a confrontation where he ultimately resorts to slapping an individual. However, it's important to note that Poitier's action was in direct response to the initial slap he himself had received from the individual.
sidney was canadian, so it was uncanadian to resort to violence when he could talk himself out of a situation. He would have been truly acting if he to beat up people on screen, going against his canadian upbringing. Fred grew up in the hood, violence was second nature to him, it required very little skill to get him in the mood to slap someone around.
Drum was lowkey revolutionary because Hollywood NEVER showed the narrative of Black slaves fighting back. When he leads the insurrection, rips off that man’s package with his bare hands and actually escapes 😂😂😂😂 it was Unlike anything I’d ever witnessed
He was an architect before he became an actor. He understood Hollywood very well and played by his own rules. I don't think at that time they could have tolerated that.
I'm 53 years old. In the 70s my family went to movies almost every weekend to see a different "Blackploitation" movie. I am telling you, when they stopped making these movies around 1979 or 80, my parents stopped going to the movies. From the oldest to the youngest, Black families would go to thses movies together. And we loved it. My daddy past in 1990. He might have gone to 3 or 4 movies during the entire decade of the 80s.
I guess some folks felt a lot of the movies promoted black folks as pimps, drug dealers, etc. but it did keep a lot of people working and not every movie was like that
I remember those days of watching Fred, Yaphet Koto, Richard Roundtree, Pam Greer, Jim Kelly, Ron O'Neal , Godfrey Cambridge, Max Julien, Moses Gunn, Clarence Williams III, Melvin Van Peebles, Raymond St Jacques, William H Marshall, Jim Brown (100 Rifles), Mr Sidney Poitier, Brenda Sykes, Tamara Dobson, and Teresa Graves...just to name a few. And I enjoyed them all.
@@Naesman1167 Shaft was my alter ego. Even had a plaid suit and coat that he wore in that opening scene of him comingvout of the subway and defying traffic while walking across the street. But I couldn't afford a real leather coat, so I bought a "pleather" (plastic leather, imitation leather) coat. Even played the "Theme from Shaft" vinyl album so much until I damaged part of the grooves on that track. Had to buy a second album. 😂
Don't forget Thalmus Rasulala, Lou Gossett, Paul Winfield, Gloria Hendry, Ron O Neil, Max Julien, Roger Mosley, Lee Chamberlain, Vonetts McGee, Tracey Reed, Julius Harris 3rd, Rudy Ray Moore, etc!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nice interview, I grew up watching these guys do their thing. We are slowly losing them to time, excellent job of capturing some history in multimedia digital format for the current generation and the future.
I beg to differ about the legendary Sidney Poitier. A 🎥 was written for him to get slapped by a white man and not retaliate. He stipulated that he will in fact slap him back. And that scene would NOT be edited out of ANY theater it played.
To be clear the term blaxploitation was not about the actors. The term was about using black cultural stereotyping in film to make money. The exploitation was to the culture. We went from cleaning the house in films to everyone selling drugs and living on the corner prostituting. From Mamie to Huggy Bear! In Williamson’s hey day it was violent, over sexualized black men and women defining success as who killed who and how whitey got his due. The NAACP pushed back on the imagery. Hollywood with its two faced ethos benefited from it but never celebrated it in the form of awards for acting, story telling or production. It was pure Saturday afternoon entertainment. But as a whole one dimensional in its portrayal of AA life. This is not to diminish its creative significance or the most important aspect of seeing people of color on the big screen. Very important then.. Just making clear where the term really comes from..
Are we forgetting the most famous slap of all times. Mr Tibbs slapping the Shot out Mr Endicott, in "The Hit Of The Night"? Sidney would not do the movie unless it was written in his contract that he slapped him back and the scene would not be cut from the movie.
I think that's sort of the point he's making. The fact that it was so rare for Sidney to hit back it's now famous. And don't forget, that slap didn't happen until he was about 15 years deep into being famous, around 1967, and Sidney is in black and white movies of the early 50s. But the weight of the civil rights movement, James Brown I'm Black and I'm Proud, Sidney HAD to get with the times, or suffer the consequences like Sammy Davis Jr. for hugging Nixon.
100%AGREE with Fred WIlliamson as far as blackepoxion movie it never made sense with me he was Shaft before Shaft was popular,but I disagree about Sidney Poitier he wasn't sensitive he was a man not just a black man but a man who could play different characters in movies and it not be pigeonhole him or be the stereotyped black guy in those movies at the time he was a actor that everyone can look up to
I like how matter of fact he speaks about the terminology, exactly who was being exploited if you have a film predominantly consisting of black actors who are behind the writing, directing, production and major roles creating a work beating out the competition?…Clearly the powers that be wanted to undermine by stigmatizing a winning formula that was getting what they considered the “others” very rich and recognized, so I think Fred is nailing this one on the head particularly as someone who was directing his own films.
I always thought this was obvious. Even as a kid I used to see the re-runs of those old blaxploitation movies and it was clear to me that these characters were intended as a mockery. The sad part is that too many of us looked at them and thought that this is how we SHOULD act. And we all know who runs Hollywood.
Aside from the blatant fornication, Shaft was a decent example of a black hero. I can't condone the sex or the violence, but John shaft was a smart man who knew his way around both the law and the criminal element.
That's the "magic" of Hollywood. Magicians wands were made of the wood from the Holly tree. It's always been a place where ideologies & stereotypes have been pushed. It's worked well, that's why their stars are idolized & the people who really make the world a better place are anonymous.
Have you ever seen Three The Hard Way? Jim Brown, Jim Kelly and Fred Williamson are a mockery of whom? I don't believe you knew what you were watching. Is Dirty Harry a white exploitation movie?
i really enjoyed this interview. I didn't see many Fred Williamson movies. I mostly saw Jim Brown. The label, Blaxploitation, it made the movies seem cheap. A lot of these movies covered the same topics. Crime in the hood, Pimps, drug dealers, and gangsters of all sorts. Heroes were either men or women, but they were fighting the same bad guys. From what I understand, once white writers, directors got involved, some of these movies just didn't evolve the way they could have. The studios, while dissing the films, still wanted the money and just kept cranking out the same thing until it dried up.
The soundtracks to these black movies was excellent! Shaft, Superfly, Trouble Man, Black Ceaser, Hell Up In Harlem & Slaughter Big Rip-Off are classics!
Mr Williamson was the man !!! and correction... Poitier did slap someone in "In the heat of the night" slapped the spit outta that white man who slapped him 😆🤣😂 but The Hammer opened the door for a lot of blk actors
I don't remember a punch, but no one forgot that slap... 😆🤣😂 also, he wasn't so squeaky clean in A Piece Of The Action either... 😆🤣😂 but he def was a "gentleman" actor, a suave, and class act... one more shout out to Mr Williamson, he def deserve his accolades... he was 70s cinema... I can't think of it, without thinking of him...
Hip hop videos and music did way worse to the image of black people than those movies from the 1970's ever did. The NAACP, who gets its marching orders from the Democratic machine, has been silent for decades about the language and the violence that the movie and music community has fed our young people.
I call bull on your response. Both were damaging. When you present a community as one dimensional as the cheap, cranked out films of the 70's did, it's very damaging. It's not "The Democratic Machine" - by the way the GOP were the ones under Ronnie who let crack DESTROY neighborhoods in the 80's. Learn you history. Black exploitation films of the 70's were simply a way to make a quick buck off of an audience hungry to see themselves represented on screen. Once the audience got bored of seeing the same crap over and over, they stopped going. And the producers stopped making $ and stopped making the films. Same with gangster rap.
Williamson is wrong. Sidney Poitier was involved in one of the most important slaps in Hollywood history. In "In the Heat of the Night", he's questioning a white man. the white man takes offense and walks up to him and slaps him and very promptly, Sidney Poitier slapped the ish outta dude 😂😂😂 In 1967, seeing an intelligent Black man slapping a white (racist) dude was very powerful.
Dude ! I was waiting to see if you would ask the Hammer about the Rules. Super! Fred Williamson is the only blackman I look up to, aside from my Dad. We need more men like him in these perilous times. Good job!👍🏽👍🏽😎😎
In real life, in the industry, in both professional and personal life. I don't see color. I see people. I see human beings who are doing their best in life. They may not be perfect but they're doing the best they can in every way humanly possible. They're giving it all they've got. And I'm sorry Hollywood ( the company ) but you're not making the issues any better. This man here, Fred Williamson, he's speaking the truth.
Comic book writer Christopher Priest feels the same he wants to be known as a writer not a black writer. He also does not want Marvel and DC to force black comic book characters on him because he can write good for all characters.
Thank you, thank you, I grew up in the 1970s . I grew up watching three the hard way, cleopatra Jones, and others. I saw the black man and women winning. No victimhood just getting busy. So these movies has to be blaxploitation movies because blacks in it, looking good, kicking ass and, and getting paid. No they were never blaxplotiation movies to me and never will be. Blacks must start letting negative terms hang over things led by them even if naacp agrees. The movies they making today with black people can't touch those movies, and put stigmas on them. We need trilogies, remakes based on these movies. Like all the 1970s movies like star wars getting remakes. These movies were a reflection of the times. Blacks resisting the man, and racist pigs called police. Blacks standing up for themselves. Like Malcom x and the black panther movement was preaching. Black was and is beautiful. With the resent climate how much has changed. We need more of these movies not less. What do blacks have against looking good, winning, succeeding, and getting paid for it.
blaxploitation made hollywood alot of money in the 70s just like the 80s and 90s black Hollywood kept making hollywood more and more money sidney poitier was the corny black dude bill Cosby was more cooler than Sidney watch all the movies they did together in the 70s who was cool
America has deep rooted race issues which is why nearly everyone identifies another by their race.Employers,schools, nearly all institutions subject you to choose the group that you identify with as your background or ancestry.
You know when he and Jim Kelly, Jim Brown and Richard Roundtree came to my high school to promote One Down 2 to Go, that was the point he was trying to make regarding the term "blaxploitation" in a semi-heated exchange during the Q&A he got into with a student when she questioned the integrity of those movies. He said the same thing here that he did then.
Sidney Poiter did slap a racist man in a movie "Heat of the night! in fact he was the one that changed the game on that Furthermore didn't Williamson get killed in the worst way in the movie From Dusk Til Dawn?
In my opinion, I think that Fred Williamson just doesn't understand the TRUE definition of Blaxploitation. First off, even though Black actors were working and getting paid, they still was not getting the pay rates that White actors were getting at that time. Also they weren't getting the same kind of promotion for their films as the Whites were. And when the Blaxploitation era saved the box office, they were no longer needed. The major motion picture studios were able to make those big budget movies and the Black people had very little participation. Now that's what I call "BLAXPLOITATION!"
Agree. They were small time films that made a decent profit because they were made on spit, but none of those actors managed to transition to major Hollywood films in the 70s.
I am going to use the Hammer rules in real life. Sidney was excellent when he did stuff with Cosby, back when Cosby wasn't much of a sell-out. Sidney's best solo for the Black community in movies was when he was in the original film, 'In the Heat of The Night,' when he said, "They call me Mister Tibbs," and he did slap a White man in that same movie after the dude hit him in front of the cops, which was a ground-breaking scene. However, the sequel to 'Heat' was garbage. Sidney did not have the dimensions for an excellent, entirely Black North American character without Cosby. Probably because Pointer was from somewhere other than the United States.
Virgil Tibbs..and the Cosby ones.....Gotcha. There was a third Tibbs film too.."The organization" . So u haven't seen.. Defiant Ones,No Way Out, Raisin in the sun, Lillie's in the field? A Patch of Blue,To Sir With Love? "Excellent black North American character without Cosby"... I'm confused by this... Are you trying to say Poitier wasn't a big bad action hero like Fred or he wasn't black enough for u?? Which is an entirely different conversation Which Fred Said about himself taking an ad out in the paper . He wanted to be known as an actor not black actor ...Poitier wasn't a black actor.. He was an actor
It was one dimensional and sterotypical. If there had been a variety of stories told with 3 dimensional intelligently written characters, it would have been a positive thing. The same stories told over and over were boring. And the low budgets reflected the disdain the creators had for their target audience. It was exploitative of a race of people. Not all black people were pimps or even lived in the inner-city. Pretty boring stuff - mostly written and directed by white people.
😲 OMG it's Fred Williamson . Still Handsome!!! ❤❤❤❤ . I have always enjoyed each movie . Fred in an OG, long before Billy D, Eddie Murphy, & Denzel Washington. Thank You for paving the way. I was a young teen when I first saw you on Julia , the TV show with Diane Carroll ; my friend and I would sneak into theaters with our older sisters ID to see your movies.
I knew a key figure who made "blaxploitation" movies. He was white. I never observed him to say or do anything racist is his personal life. He may have invented the concept of making movies aimed at a subset of people within the general population; teenagers, blacks, etc. He certainly did that. He was there to make money. Most of the actors he employed were white cause that's how it was then but he made a number of movies with black casts where they were the hero, the romantic leads, and everything else. That was uncommon then. Comparing his black movies with the other movies he made, I don't think he had a particular intention to exploit black actors or audiences.
Sidney Poitier did slap someone in a movie 🎬 and he slapped a white guy... Go look at the movie "In the Heat of the Night," the original version....or you can Google it.... and that's FACTUAL 💯
Sidney did smack fire outta that old saltine in "In The Heat of the Night"
@john-keithrailey1424
We better save that movie or at least that scene.
These peckerwoods will give it the CRT treatment.
@@cantstop-wontstop2138🤣😂🤣😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💯
Exactly and that is actually what started Blaxplotation
😂😂😂ya know I can recall a time you would get hanged for that😂😂😂
"In the heat if the night" Not only that but let's do it again was and is a classic black flim an all-star cast of black actors and the soundtrack is crazy not to mention the production, and even the camera men , were black & Hispanic . UP town Saturday night, was another one, and their is still a 3rd film I can't rember. But do rember the opening scene with Jane Kennedy damn oh and Big George and Bill C.
As a Black kid growing up in the 1970s, I was watching films with guys like Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Richard Roundtree, Rudy Ray Moore, and Ron O'Neal. Sidney Poiter was great, but, he wasn't the actor that the kids in the neighborhood were interested in watching.
I would love to read an autobiography about the life of Fred Williamson! I wonder why there hasn't been one yet. It would certainly be more interesting than one about John Wayne!
A dog turd is more interesting than John Wayne.
I agree
@@amitypredator9385"F him and John Wayne!!"
John Wayne had the acting prowess of a comatose sloth and the depth of a kiddie pool. Why people consider him a great actor is beyond me.
I tried to watch some of Fred Williams movies from the 70s.. They moved too slow for me But I haven't watched every movie.
Fred Williamson looks absolutely amazing. Glad to see him alive and well
As a African American I understand exactly what he's coming from and I applaud him for that. It's nothing wrong with having hero's that people can look up to but Fred was just trying to filled a void that Blacks never had back in the 60's or 70's and I'm glad he hasn't changed.
In my opinion, you don't have to agree with me. Please do not agree with me.. The only people you should look up to is god and your family members.
I agree with you 💯 percent. Even growing up in the islands I got the point Fred was making with the movies he acted in and eventually started producing himself.
@@1990758 the only thing I do agree with is the only people you should look up to is God and family members. I don't look up to anybody except God, then my family members so in that case people who are fans of athletes, celebrity's or anybody that's well known shouldn't be look up to . I was saying have nothing to do with looking up to anybody, it was just it was never no Black hero's in the 60's or 70's that people can identify like a lot of white hero's was and still is.
@@kennethstanley9462 Celebrities athletes and black heroes are all false gods
@@kennethstanley9462I agree with you.
Ironically, Blaxploitation saved Hollywood during "white flight."
Yup, it sure did
I doubt that....Hollywood always made money, Hollywood wanted more money so they saw a market they could get even more money.
@martinvanburen4578 Hollywood was on the verge of bankruptcy b4 blaxploitation took off. But everyone wanted to see blaxploitation, so Hollywood kept shelling them out.
@@martinvanburen4578Yea you doubt it..
And those Jewish used that money to fund pornography
This man stood TOWERING AS STRONG AS COULD BE. His walk into a room commanded attention. Talented and respected as could be too.
Actually Sidney DID smack a white man in “In the Heat of the Night.” Pretty great scene too.
You had to push Sidney pretty far for him to come up side your head, with The Hammer, it didn't take much.😂😂
Fact
Riverboat smack down.
I guess they can't do all their homework on everybody all the time
Im happy for Hollywood to think they were doing something negative that turned around and backfired
No it didn't... Where in this world do black people get respect in the 21st century? 🤔🤷🏾♂️
@@westlymiller I get respect everywhere I go. You speak for yourself
@@bamnjphotoWhoosh!!
@@westlymiller All over the world people all over copy our movements,slogans,marches. It's amazing that we take a strong stance on social issues and you say that no other ethnic groups take that heat first always us.
@@bamnjphoto I said black people...I'm not talking about you individually sir
In "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), Poitier finds himself in a confrontation where he ultimately resorts to slapping an individual. However, it's important to note that Poitier's action was in direct response to the initial slap he himself had received from the individual.
sidney was canadian, so it was uncanadian to resort to violence when he could talk himself out of a situation. He would have been truly acting if he to beat up people on screen, going against his canadian upbringing. Fred grew up in the hood, violence was second nature to him, it required very little skill to get him in the mood to slap someone around.
You are exactly right, when Sidney Poitier slap the shit out of that white man that was not in the script, but they filmed it anyway
@@jonyjoe8464He was from the Bahamas.
@jonyjoe8464 Sidney Poitier was not Canadian. He was Bahamian.
Black Ceasar, Bucktown, Truck Turner, Sugar Hill, Drum, these were all good 70s movies just to name a few 💯💯
Drum was lowkey revolutionary because Hollywood NEVER showed the narrative of Black slaves fighting back. When he leads the insurrection, rips off that man’s package with his bare hands and actually escapes 😂😂😂😂 it was Unlike anything I’d ever witnessed
@@seensay2132 Hell yeah he gave him a sex change right before his death 🤣🤣🤣💀
Mr Williamson is a very intelligent man.
He was an architect before he became an actor. He understood Hollywood very well and played by his own rules. I don't think at that time they could have tolerated that.
Hell up In Harlem is a classic
I can watch that movie anytime
I'm 53 years old. In the 70s my family went to movies almost every weekend to see a different "Blackploitation" movie. I am telling you, when they stopped making these movies around 1979 or 80, my parents stopped going to the movies. From the oldest to the youngest, Black families would go to thses movies together. And we loved it. My daddy past in 1990. He might have gone to 3 or 4 movies during the entire decade of the 80s.
Sidney Poitier had a top 5 smack in cinema history in The Heat of the Night. His follow through was flawless.
I guess some folks felt a lot of the movies promoted black folks as pimps, drug dealers, etc. but it did keep a lot of people working and not every movie was like that
Some people feel the same about Tyler Perry movies. The movies had stereotypes but he kept people working.
Exactly I agree with you one thousand percent.
I remember those days of watching Fred, Yaphet Koto, Richard Roundtree, Pam Greer, Jim Kelly, Ron O'Neal , Godfrey Cambridge, Max Julien, Moses Gunn, Clarence Williams III, Melvin Van Peebles, Raymond St Jacques, William H Marshall, Jim Brown (100 Rifles), Mr Sidney Poitier, Brenda Sykes, Tamara Dobson, and Teresa Graves...just to name a few. And I enjoyed them all.
Wow! You got all of them. Fun memories growing up!
@@Naesman1167 Shaft was my alter ego. Even had a plaid suit and coat that he wore in that opening scene of him comingvout of the subway and defying traffic while walking across the street. But I couldn't afford a real leather coat, so I bought a "pleather" (plastic leather, imitation leather) coat. Even played the "Theme from Shaft" vinyl album so much until I damaged part of the grooves on that track. Had to buy a second album. 😂
Your blazer was swaying side to side in the cool breeze while walking!😂😂😂😂😂@@benjamintaylor4402
Don't forget Thalmus Rasulala, Lou Gossett, Paul Winfield, Gloria Hendry, Ron O Neil, Max Julien, Roger Mosley, Lee Chamberlain, Vonetts McGee, Tracey Reed, Julius Harris 3rd, Rudy Ray Moore, etc!😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@MD-DLive I remember every last one of them...and some of the lines they spoke. Those were the days!!!!!
Nice interview, I grew up watching these guys do their thing. We are slowly losing them to time, excellent job of capturing some history in multimedia digital format for the current generation and the future.
I beg to differ about the legendary Sidney Poitier. A 🎥 was written for him to get slapped by a white man and not retaliate. He stipulated that he will in fact slap him back. And that scene would NOT be edited out of ANY theater it played.
To be clear the term blaxploitation was not about the actors. The term was about using black cultural stereotyping in film to make money. The exploitation was to the culture. We went from cleaning the house in films to everyone selling drugs and living on the corner prostituting. From Mamie to Huggy Bear! In Williamson’s hey day it was violent, over sexualized black men and women defining success as who killed who and how whitey got his due. The NAACP pushed back on the imagery. Hollywood with its two faced ethos benefited from it but never celebrated it in the form of awards for acting, story telling or production. It was pure Saturday afternoon entertainment. But as a whole one dimensional in its portrayal of AA life. This is not to diminish its creative significance or the most important aspect of seeing people of color on the big screen. Very important then.. Just making clear where the term really comes from..
Are we forgetting the most famous slap of all times. Mr Tibbs slapping the Shot out Mr Endicott, in "The Hit Of The Night"? Sidney would not do the movie unless it was written in his contract that he slapped him back and the scene would not be cut from the movie.
exactly.
I think that's sort of the point he's making. The fact that it was so rare for Sidney to hit back it's now famous. And don't forget, that slap didn't happen until he was about 15 years deep into being famous, around 1967, and Sidney is in black and white movies of the early 50s.
But the weight of the civil rights movement, James Brown I'm Black and I'm Proud, Sidney HAD to get with the times, or suffer the consequences like Sammy Davis Jr. for hugging Nixon.
Heat of the night
Cant believe this dude still this coherent at 85. Thats impressive
A lot of people are like that at his age.
This man is still very sharp.. Much blessings to him … I’m sure he’s full of wisdom
100%AGREE with Fred WIlliamson as far as blackepoxion movie it never made sense with me he was Shaft before Shaft was popular,but I disagree about Sidney Poitier he wasn't sensitive he was a man not just a black man but a man who could play different characters in movies and it not be pigeonhole him or be the stereotyped black guy in those movies at the time he was a actor that everyone can look up to
I like how matter of fact he speaks about the terminology, exactly who was being exploited if you have a film predominantly consisting of black actors who are behind the writing, directing, production and major roles creating a work beating out the competition?…Clearly the powers that be wanted to undermine by stigmatizing a winning formula that was getting what they considered the “others” very rich and recognized, so I think Fred is nailing this one on the head particularly as someone who was directing his own films.
And now Hollywood ended up looking dumb because all it did was give the world some of the greatest blacks actors and blacks movies of all time.
I'm not Black, I am OJ!
Fred Williams is not a Black actor, he is a actor.
I always thought this was obvious. Even as a kid I used to see the re-runs of those old blaxploitation movies and it was clear to me that these characters were intended as a mockery. The sad part is that too many of us looked at them and thought that this is how we SHOULD act. And we all know who runs Hollywood.
Aside from the blatant fornication, Shaft was a decent example of a black hero. I can't condone the sex or the violence, but John shaft was a smart man who knew his way around both the law and the criminal element.
That's the "magic" of Hollywood.
Magicians wands were made of the wood from the Holly tree.
It's always been a place where ideologies & stereotypes have been pushed.
It's worked well, that's why their stars are idolized & the people who really make the world a better place are anonymous.
The anglo saxon Yehudi made zillions off of it
Have you ever seen Three The Hard Way? Jim Brown, Jim Kelly and Fred Williamson are a mockery of whom? I don't believe you knew what you were watching. Is Dirty Harry a white exploitation movie?
@@amitypredator9385let lol lylyt🎉t😢😢😢happy trq
i really enjoyed this interview. I didn't see many Fred Williamson movies. I mostly saw Jim Brown. The label, Blaxploitation, it made the movies seem cheap. A lot of these movies covered the same topics. Crime in the hood, Pimps, drug dealers, and gangsters of all sorts. Heroes were either men or women, but they were fighting the same bad guys. From what I understand, once white writers, directors got involved, some of these movies just didn't evolve the way they could have. The studios, while dissing the films, still wanted the money and just kept cranking out the same thing until it dried up.
I guess that's why the friday movies never appealed to me. But that's me that's not everyone.
@@1990758 True. I watched the first one and that was enough for me. But like you said, personal taste.
Sidney was Martin Luther King Jr, Fred was Malcolm X back in the day on the movie set. 🤔😏
Sidney Poitier slapped the ish..out of a white character..in the film HEAT OF THE NIGHT..research folks
“Over here is The Hammer, I take your cheek off” 😂😂😂 Classic line
The soundtracks to these black movies was excellent! Shaft, Superfly, Trouble Man, Black Ceaser, Hell Up In Harlem & Slaughter Big Rip-Off are classics!
Maybe the best part!
Mr Williamson was the man !!! and correction... Poitier did slap someone in "In the heat of the night" slapped the spit outta that white man who slapped him 😆🤣😂 but The Hammer opened the door for a lot of blk actors
But i'm pretty sure I'll just tell you a slap and a punch.
I don't remember a punch,
but no one forgot that slap... 😆🤣😂
also,
he wasn't so squeaky clean in A Piece Of The Action either... 😆🤣😂
but he def was a "gentleman" actor, a suave,
and class act...
one more shout out to Mr Williamson,
he def deserve his accolades...
he was 70s cinema...
I can't think of it,
without thinking of him...
I love Fred Williamson and his way of thinking. I wish him all the best now and always.
Sidney Poitier famously slapped a white man in a movie, before Fred got started.
Hip hop videos and music did way worse to the image of black people than those movies from the 1970's ever did. The NAACP, who gets its marching orders from the Democratic machine, has been silent for decades about the language and the violence that the movie and music community has fed our young people.
I call bull on your response. Both were damaging. When you present a community as one dimensional as the cheap, cranked out films of the 70's did, it's very damaging. It's not "The Democratic Machine" - by the way the GOP were the ones under Ronnie who let crack DESTROY neighborhoods in the 80's. Learn you history. Black exploitation films of the 70's were simply a way to make a quick buck off of an audience hungry to see themselves represented on screen. Once the audience got bored of seeing the same crap over and over, they stopped going. And the producers stopped making $ and stopped making the films. Same with gangster rap.
His knuckle all f**ked up from knocking fools out! The Hammer 🔨
Williamson is wrong. Sidney Poitier was involved in one of the most important slaps in Hollywood history. In "In the Heat of the Night", he's questioning a white man. the white man takes offense and walks up to him and slaps him and very promptly, Sidney Poitier slapped the ish outta dude 😂😂😂 In 1967, seeing an intelligent Black man slapping a white (racist) dude was very powerful.
Dude ! I was waiting to see if you would ask the Hammer about the Rules. Super! Fred Williamson is the only blackman I look up to, aside from my Dad. We need more men like him in these perilous times. Good job!👍🏽👍🏽😎😎
There was one movie in which he was killed, From Dusk Till Dawn , but as a vampire.
As a 28 I can say I love Fred Williamson pretty much seen every movie he’s been in would love to meet and talk with my elder
Fred Williamson is a cool guy. I've seen a bunch of his films, and his characters are always bad-ass, with swag for days.
TERRANCE OUT
In real life, in the industry, in both professional and personal life. I don't see color. I see people. I see human beings who are doing their best in life. They may not be perfect but they're doing the best they can in every way humanly possible. They're giving it all they've got. And I'm sorry Hollywood ( the company ) but you're not making the issues any better. This man here, Fred Williamson, he's speaking the truth.
Comic book writer Christopher Priest feels the same he wants to be known as a writer not a black writer. He also does not want Marvel and DC to force black comic book characters on him because he can write good for all characters.
I hate that term Blaxploitation it's racist.
Thank you.
Look up the history of the NAACP and who created it and still controls it and Sidney did slap a racist in The Heat of the Night
Thank you, thank you, I grew up in the 1970s . I grew up watching three the hard way, cleopatra Jones, and others. I saw the black man and women winning. No victimhood just getting busy. So these movies has to be blaxploitation movies because blacks in it, looking good, kicking ass and, and getting paid. No they were never blaxplotiation movies to me and never will be. Blacks must start letting negative terms hang over things led by them even if naacp agrees. The movies they making today with black people can't touch those movies, and put stigmas on them. We need trilogies, remakes based on these movies. Like all the 1970s movies like star wars getting remakes. These movies were a reflection of the times. Blacks resisting the man, and racist pigs called police. Blacks standing up for themselves. Like Malcom x and the black panther movement was preaching. Black was and is beautiful. With the resent climate how much has changed. We need more of these movies not less. What do blacks have against looking good, winning, succeeding, and getting paid for it.
TELL' EM FRED!!!!
blaxploitation made hollywood alot of money in the 70s just like the 80s and 90s black Hollywood kept making hollywood more and more money sidney poitier was the corny black dude bill Cosby was more cooler than Sidney watch all the movies they did together in the 70s who was cool
The European so-called jews are the ringleaders and still are.
Sleeping pills in deink was coool
@@leanhoven he didn't do that stop it
I'm takin your check off 😂😂😂😂 hell yeah.
That knuckle on his left middle finger 😄The HAMMER is not fooling me...
Vintage and still handsome. I watched all of Fred Williamson's movies.
The only film Fred Willamson died in was From Dusk Til Dawn. I'm surprised he took that role, thinking about it now..
Me too.
Right that vampire creep up behind him (Pause)
Black Caesar is a Classic movie I still watch today💯🔥👍🏽
America has deep rooted race issues which is why nearly everyone identifies another by their race.Employers,schools, nearly all institutions subject you to choose the group that you identify with as your background or ancestry.
You know when he and Jim Kelly, Jim Brown and Richard Roundtree came to my high school to promote One Down 2 to Go, that was the point he was trying to make regarding the term "blaxploitation" in a semi-heated exchange during the Q&A he got into with a student when she questioned the integrity of those movies. He said the same thing here that he did then.
Fred Williamson is the REAL DEAL
Sidney Poiter did slap a racist man in a movie "Heat of the night! in fact he was the one that changed the game on that Furthermore didn't Williamson get killed in the worst way in the movie From Dusk Til Dawn?
FRED WILLIAMSON DAY ONE!!!!
Didn’t “exploitation films” just mean movies that had graphic content that mainstream Hollywood didn’t have.
In my opinion, I think that Fred Williamson just doesn't understand the TRUE definition of Blaxploitation. First off, even though Black actors were working and getting paid, they still was not getting the pay rates that White actors were getting at that time. Also they weren't getting the same kind of promotion for their films as the Whites were. And when the Blaxploitation era saved the box office, they were no longer needed. The major motion picture studios were able to make those big budget movies and the Black people had very little participation. Now that's what I call "BLAXPLOITATION!"
Agree. They were small time films that made a decent profit because they were made on spit, but none of those actors managed to transition to major Hollywood films in the 70s.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME MY 3 RULES OF HOLLYWOOD SIR
Great Interview Vlad. Fred is a wealth of knowledge. A real OG, intelligent. Wise beyond his years.The culture needs his history.
great stuff....
I think he got killed in From Dusk Till Dawn. He was at least turned in2 a vampire.
Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Richard Roundtree were the top 3 bad asses of an era. 🎥💯
This is a real legend my mother and father is 70 years old know about this guy
The Hammer telling it like it is! He should be a billionaire
i mean he got turned into a vampire in from dusk til dawn & got killed😭 much respect to him tho
Vampires don't die. Matter of of .....
From Dusk til Dawn is probably the only movie he dies in
Boss Nicca is a pretty good movie too
I don't know of any movies Fred Williamson appeared in which he was the only Black actor and it was called a blaxploitation movie.
Freddie is still 😎 cool after all these years. Enjoyed the interview. 👍🏼
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Peace to this Brother
I am going to use the Hammer rules in real life. Sidney was excellent when he did stuff with Cosby, back when Cosby wasn't much of a sell-out. Sidney's best solo for the Black community in movies was when he was in the original film, 'In the Heat of The Night,' when he said, "They call me Mister Tibbs," and he did slap a White man in that same movie after the dude hit him in front of the cops, which was a ground-breaking scene. However, the sequel to 'Heat' was garbage. Sidney did not have the dimensions for an excellent, entirely Black North American character without Cosby. Probably because Pointer was from somewhere other than the United States.
I think you need to watch more of his films than just the Cosby ones
@@deezerbee81 I have. Did you miss the titles I gave? Cosby was not in those movies.
Virgil Tibbs..and the Cosby ones.....Gotcha.
There was a third Tibbs film too.."The organization"
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So u haven't seen..
Defiant Ones,No Way Out, Raisin in the sun, Lillie's in the field? A Patch of Blue,To Sir With Love?
"Excellent black North American character without Cosby"...
I'm confused by this...
Are you trying to say Poitier wasn't a big bad action hero like Fred or he wasn't black enough for u??
Which is an entirely different conversation
Which Fred Said about himself taking an ad out in the paper . He wanted to be known as an actor not black actor
...Poitier wasn't a black actor..
He was an actor
Drop the MIC ....wish a MF wood👌🏾
Thanks for putting a player up on game
Bruh in any of these clips did Glad axe dude about that left hand middle finger?
He did get killed in From Dusk to Dawn.
This man fed your mama 😂, he was a menace.
YOU TRYING TO TELL ME THAT "MR. MY NAME IS MR.TIBBS" NEVER SLAPPED ANYBODY? COME'ON MAN!!!!!!!!!!
Blaxploitation wasn't negative. Black gangsters were blasting white cops and white Italians in the Mafia. I thought that was hella cool.
It was one dimensional and sterotypical. If there had been a variety of stories told with 3 dimensional intelligently written characters, it would have been a positive thing. The same stories told over and over were boring. And the low budgets reflected the disdain the creators had for their target audience. It was exploitative of a race of people. Not all black people were pimps or even lived in the inner-city. Pretty boring stuff - mostly written and directed by white people.
😲 OMG it's Fred Williamson . Still Handsome!!! ❤❤❤❤ . I have always enjoyed each movie . Fred in an OG, long before Billy D, Eddie Murphy, & Denzel Washington. Thank You for paving the way. I was a young teen when I first saw you on Julia , the TV show with Diane Carroll ; my friend and I would sneak into theaters with our older sisters ID to see your movies.
Now I understand what Idris Elba meant. He wants to just be an actor not just a black one.
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The NAACP also told Jesse Owen’s not to run in the Olympics
Says the person who marketed king cobra malt liquor to the black community.
He participated in the minstrel show don’t come asking for understanding
Fredrick Douglass Williamson, Cool & Logical.
Sidney Old and Did Smack and Flashbacks aber das mit den letzten Tagen nicht da wir können ja 👍
The Hammer 🔨
I knew a key figure who made "blaxploitation" movies. He was white. I never observed him to say or do anything racist is his personal life. He may have invented the concept of making movies aimed at a subset of people within the general population; teenagers, blacks, etc. He certainly did that. He was there to make money. Most of the actors he employed were white cause that's how it was then but he made a number of movies with black casts where they were the hero, the romantic leads, and everything else. That was uncommon then. Comparing his black movies with the other movies he made, I don't think he had a particular intention to exploit black actors or audiences.
Vlad getting a kick out of this interview😂😂😂
It’s good interview, I’m sure Vlad had to enjoy it…
Sidney Poitier did slap someone in a movie 🎬 and he slapped a white guy... Go look at the movie "In the Heat of the Night," the original version....or you can Google it.... and that's FACTUAL 💯
He got killed in From Dusk Till Dawn. I wish he could have lived till the end, I liked his character!
When we say legend
He told the truth and blaxplotation films saved the Hollywood game
He did a cowboy film called Boss . . . I don't need to explain the last word lol.
Fred 🤣 Gotta love him ❤️