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Dolemite Is My Name (2019) is an American biographical comedy drama movies directed by Craig Brewer . The film stars Eddie Murphy as filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, who is best known for having portrayed the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up routine and a series of blaxploitation films, which started with Dolemite in 1975.[1]
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Plot
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.[2]
Empowerment
From Dolemite legacy, some Moore's work crossed over to white audiences, he was influential among many black comics and hip-hop stars. Moore inspired everyone in black community from Busta Rhymes to Snoop Dogg. “Without Rudy Ray Moore, there would be no Snoop Dogg, and that’s for real,” said Snoop who cameos in this film. His output as a black filmmaker is especially important regardless of notoriety; sure, Dolemite is silly and over-the-top, but it was also empowering, especially for black audiences at the time, to see a movie made by and for them. [3]
The actors, Eddie Murphy, takes a good idea and runs with it, soars with it, and turns it into a great, if wildly erratic, twofer tribute—to a singular legend of black entertainment culture, and to the transformative power of raunchy, outrageous humor.[4]
Controversy
This biographical comedy drama movies shows the story of a black man trying to make and market a film in a world full of shut doors, so it’s about a struggle that’s on some level heroic. At the same time, the movie he’s making is no “Sweetback.” It’s more like an unintentional parody of “Sweetback” — a what-the-hell riff on the whole blaxploitation cosmos, with Rudy playing his own version of Black Caesar or Willie Dynamite: a guy who’s got the killer attitude and the mac-daddy wardrobe, but is basically an out-of-shape fake actor pretending, not very hard, that he knows kung fu.[5]
From the opening scene of Dolemite Is My Name, the R-rating is dutifully earned by how fast the colorful range of curse words fly around the record store. Profanity continues throughout the movie. It also goes on to make sweeping generalizations about what black people find entertaining, depicting the black community as only finding humor in vulgarity. According to an Encyclopedia Britannica article by Yvonne Sims, that African American critics found the stereotypes made possible by the behaviors of the heroes and heroines of the films — which often included drug dealing, violence, and easy sex — be the most pervasive and damaging effect of the movies.
“Blaxploitation is more than stereotypes that are perceived to bring down the black race and their respectability,” University of Iowa cinematic-arts Professor Christopher Harris said. "The film stumbles across thin lines between its attempts at humor, moments of tenderness, and the often-uncomfortable depictions of race.”[6]
Reference
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolemite_Is_My_Name
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8526872/
- ↑ https://thespool.net/reviews/movies/dolemite-is-my-name-review-eddie-murphy/
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/dolemite-is-my-name-review-a-twofer-tribute-11570131861
- ↑ https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/dolemite-is-my-name-review-eddie-murphy-1203327422/
- ↑ https://dailyiowan.com/2019/10/29/opinion-dolemite-is-my-name-dances-the-line-between-blaxploitation-and-empowerment/