Comments on: 40 Years Ago Today…

By: RayRay

RayRay — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:48:00 +0000

Very strange. The montage image did not have you credited or tagged. Since it’s confusing Google searches and having an unintended impact, I’ve gone and removed the montage image entirely. My sincere apologies for any confusion this may have caused. This blog does not get very many hits at all, so I’m genuinely confused as to why that particular image would have filtered up to top results. Best wishes.

By: Polly

Polly — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 01:39:48 +0000

This montage does not have one picture of me in it. I am tired of being portrayed this way. The picture from the movie shows that I am longer and more athletic than the coke sniffing peanut you have displayed. Please get your facts straight!

By: dotti46

dotti46 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:32:06 +0000

thanx!

By: RayRay

RayRay — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:30:15 +0000

Haha. No, I’m not mad at all. Just really busy with my day job. I’ve very much enjoyed this discussion.

I also want to take the time to sit down and give this another watch with your observations in mind. I know that if I just try to throw a response on here from my admittedly faulty memory, you’ll call me on it. And rightly so!

Don’t worry. I’ll definitely be back to comment on this in the very near future.

By: dotti46

dotti46 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:07:11 +0000

rayray! say you’re not mad.

By: dotti46

dotti46 — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:10:26 +0000

rayray now ‘i’m’ just asking without sarcasm, what part of the film gives you even the most minute inkling that getting out of the drug biz was georgia’s idea? ease up and give a brother his due.

By: dotti46

dotti46 — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 03:50:01 +0000

in the beginning when priest is in bed with his socialite “woman like you” girlfriend he’s staring into space as if he has something quite heavy broiling in his mind. he looks over at
cynthia somewhat admiringly but then turns his head and gives off what seems to be a sigh of discontent. the head bang by the junkies seemed to cinch the thought to throw it in. remember he communicates to eddie that he wants to get out “before i have to kill somebody; before someone ices me.” during the tub scene georgia explains she understands his need for “dope” and she’s down for anything she can do to help ease his weight. (not a mention of getting out). only after he lays out his ‘big hit and git’ plan to her in the park does she suggest if he gets out ‘now’ she would “be happy with a modest life; even a poor one if he would.” and, as we know, he was having none of that.

By: RayRay

RayRay — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 02:16:53 +0000

Yeah, admittedly “pushing” is overstating a bit, but I just wanted to juxtapose her influence with the supposed influence of the “pusherman” over his clientele. Which is kinda ironic since it’s made painfully clear that Priest doesn’t have to push product on anyone. The demand is already there.

She does, however, believe in him as a man and as a human being, and I’m not sure he’d see the possibilities at the end of his gauntlet without her counsel. Is there suggestion that “getting out” is his idea? Not asking sarcastically, just genuinely curious, and you’re clearly someone who would know or at least has given such things considerable thought.

By: dotti46

dotti46 — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 06:18:45 +0000

i wish i was able to find a site that gives details of ron o’neal’s private life. i’d just love to be all up in his business with details of his first marriage and when he married his second wife. i know he’s gone but i’m still one of his hardcore fans. not only did hollywood abuse him but black media also hated on him and treated him as if he didn’t exist. when he was stabbed in 1983 there was about an inch high article addressing it. they never forgave him for helping make super fly arguably the most impressive film of the black movie era. they didn’t even bother to mention his passing in any of the black publications.

By: dotti46

dotti46 — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 05:54:26 +0000

i don’t mean to be nit-picky (well maybe a little) but i read your critique of this movie again. your description of georgia as priest’s soul sister and confidante sorta plays down their real relationship. she was his ‘main woman’ and he was lavishing a huge amount of the spoils from his trade on her. saying she was “pushing” priest is somewhat overstating what she was doing. she was simply encouraging and supporting him in his very own idea of “getting out of this scene…both of us, baby”.