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Auditions blog: history He also traumatizes 13-year-old Mario by having him act in a flashback sex scene to show how the character Sweetback lost his virginity The film is based on Melvin's book about the making of "Sweetback ' But I wanted the core audience, the target audience, to know it's for them," Melvin said "Melvin said to me once, `There's two loves in your life " Singleton appears in "Foot," along with Melvin's filmmaking contemporary, Ossie Davis, who plays Melvin's father Melvin misspelled "Bad Ass" because it allowed him to get the film's name into advertisements in some newspapers, and because it fit the movie's tone " Melvin is portrayed as obsessed and exhausted during the 19-day shoot, a fiercely self-absorbed artist who leaves his crew stewing in jail for the weekend rather than jeopardize his movie Melvin used the X rating as a marketing gimmick, printing T-shirts that read, "Rated X by an All White Jury" to advertise "Sweetback" at the only two U Melvin Van Peebles insisted on a realistic rendering " At times a loving portrait, "Foot" more often depicts a tyrannical artist who did not hesitate to put his work ahead of friends and family â€â€? including son Mario, then 13 In 1970, Melvin became the toast of Hollywood for his satiric comedy "Watermelon Man," about a white bigot who wakes up one day to find he's turned black "So I said `Ba-ad Asssss,' like you really say it " Melvin said his son's film is an accurate dramatization of the story behind "Sweetback," including the real gun that got slipped into a prop drawer of phony weapons and a cash infusion from Bill Cosby to finish the film " But they did put black performers and crew members to work, and the legacy of "Sweetback" finally began paying off with the arrival of such black filmmakers as Spike Lee, John Singleton and the Hudlin brothers in the 1980s and 1990s, he said theaters that initially agreed to show the movie They spoke at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the movie premiered and Mario shopped it to potential distributors "I wouldn't do that with my kids, but I'll do other stuff to them that they won't like," said Mario, who was embarrassed by the scene but grateful the movie had an X rating, so his friends couldn't see it "I'm in the business I love "Hollywood liked to see us clowning, but America wasn't in a laughing mood," Melvin's character says in the film's voice-overs What a kick I got to do a movie about a cat that I love, while he's still there to see it What you do, and who you do it with,'" Mario said The younger Van Peebles co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in "How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Asss!" He plays his father, Melvin Van Peebles, in a raucous account of how his dad made the revolutionary 1971 black-power film "Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song The action closes with a touching father-son scene, with Mario as his dad and the actor playing young Mario sharing a theater seat, watching "Sweetback" in a crowded cinema S S "I could have called it `The Ballad of the Indomitable Sweetback An unlit cigar perpetually clenched in his teeth, Melvin cruises Hollywood on a mean motorcycle, riding out to the desert with son Mario to ponder his options But Melvin's dead serious, and he took on a story that Hollywood ran screaming from " Studio bosses were calling him "Mel, baby" and talking up three-picture deals Mario opens "Foot" with the crossroads Melvin came to after "Watermelon Man The title alone was revolutionary Melvin Van Peebles was disheartened by the "blaxploitation" wave, saying those movies scrapped the revolutionary spirit of the black-power movement in favor of stereotypical fare meant to cash in on the success of "Sweetback "Especially black America He begged, borrowed and ultimately used his own money to make "Sweetback," in which Melvin casts himself as an urban sex stud on the lam after retaliating against racist cops who are beating a black man "One thing he told me was, `Don't make me too nice,'" Mario, 46, said in an interview with The Associated Press alongside his 71-year-old father Story of 'Sweetback' Premiers in Toronto Sep 9, 1:37 PM EST Mario Van Peebles has just walked a mile in his father's shoes â€â€? no easy road to take when Dad's the godfather of black cinema and the unwitting sire of 1970s "blaxploitation" flicks, all rolled into one cigar-chomping package "Shaft" followed soon after, heralding a wave of Hollywood-backed flicks with street-tough black leads "Sweetback" caught fire with black audiences, eventually grossing $15 million and becoming one of the most profitable independent films in U " What if, Melvin wonders, he made a movie about a street brother, a black hustler turned revolutionary against the man? "Another comedy?" young Mario asks |
