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* ''Son of Shaft'' ''Shaft'' (2019)
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It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft (Creator/RichardRoundtree), who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]], the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
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It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft (Creator/RichardRoundtree), who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Also in the cast are Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]], the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
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* CreatorCameo: Gordon Parks briefly appears as a landlord.
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-->'''Shaft''': A sweet, loving dude like you? Sweet-talking a man's lady as you beat her man out of his paycheck
in the back room of a horse parlor? Feeding his kid shit to shoot in his arm? Who could hate ''you'', Bumpy?
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-->'''Shaft''': A sweet, loving dude like you? Sweet-talking a man's lady as you beat her man out of his paycheck
paycheck in the back room of a horse parlor? Feeding his kid shit to shoot in his arm? Who could hate ''you'', Bumpy?
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Bumpy hires Shaft to find his daughter:
-->'''Shaft''': Got any idea who grabbed her?
-->'''Bumpy''': A lot of cats hate my guts.
-->'''Shaft''': A sweet, loving dude like you? Sweet-talking a man's lady as you beat her man out of his paycheck
in the back room of a horse parlor? Feeding his kid shit to shoot in his arm? Who could hate ''you'', Bumpy?
-->'''Shaft''': Got any idea who grabbed her?
-->'''Bumpy''': A lot of cats hate my guts.
-->'''Shaft''': A sweet, loving dude like you? Sweet-talking a man's lady as you beat her man out of his paycheck
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* {{Badbutt}}-- In the series of TV movies, he got downgraded to a [[{{Bowdlerize}} Bad Melon Farmer]] for fear of [[MoralGuardians offending the delicate sensitivities of white TV audiences]].
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* {{Badbutt}}-- {{Badbutt}}: In the series of TV movies, he Shaft got downgraded to a [[{{Bowdlerize}} Bad Melon Farmer]] for fear of [[MoralGuardians offending the delicate sensitivities of white TV audiences]].
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It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]], the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
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It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft, Shaft (Creator/RichardRoundtree), who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]], the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
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* BigBad: The first film has Lee, TheMafia agent who led the operation to kidnap Bumpy's daughter.
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* TVTelephoneEtiquette: Shaft does it in style...
-->'''Shaft''': Vic, your case just busted wide open.
-->'''Androzzi''': So close it for me.
-->'''Shaft''': Cut the crap man, this is Shaft. Looks like you gonna have to close it yo'self, ''shitty''! (''cackles and hangs up, walks away, theme song music plays'')
-->'''Shaft''': Vic, your case just busted wide open.
-->'''Androzzi''': So close it for me.
-->'''Shaft''': Cut the crap man, this is Shaft. Looks like you gonna have to close it yo'self, ''shitty''! (''cackles and hangs up, walks away, theme song music plays'')
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* MafiaPrincess: Deconstructed with Bumpy's daughter. Turns out, in the cutthroat world of organized crime, being a crime lord's beloved little girl isn't necessarily a good thing...
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Shaft whacks a bottle over a Mafia mook's head at the bar. All it gets the mook is a cut scalp.
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It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" Oscar, the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
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It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" Oscar, [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]], the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
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In 2014 a ''Shaft'' comic book debuted to strong critical reaction, inspired more by the Tidyman novels and written by David Walker of [=BadAzz=] [=MoFo=], a blog about Blaxploitation history. Included in each issue of the first arc, ''A Complicated Man'', was a chapter of ''Shaft's Revenge'', the first new novel about John Shaft since Tidyman's death. A second arc, ''Imitation Of Life'', is in the works.
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In 2014 a ''Shaft'' comic book debuted to strong critical reaction, inspired more by the Tidyman novels and written by David Walker of [=BadAzz=] [=MoFo=], a blog about Blaxploitation history. Included in each issue of the first arc, ''A Complicated Man'', was a chapter of ''Shaft's Revenge'', the first new novel about John Shaft since Tidyman's death. A In Walker's second arc, ''Imitation Of Life'', is in the works.
Shaft gets hired on a low-budget detective film [[MythologyGag that may or may not be based on his life]].
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* CanonWelding: According to Creator/QuentinTarantino in a 2012 Comic-Con interview, Django and Broomhilda (von Shaft) from his movie ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' are the great-great-great-great grandparents of John Shaft. Make of this what you will.
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Incidentally, Ernest Tidyman, writer of the original novel series and the first two movies, also wrote ''Film/TheFrenchConnection.''
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Incidentally, Ernest Tidyman, writer of the original novel series and the first two movies, also wrote ''Film/TheFrenchConnection.''
''Film/TheFrenchConnection'' and ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter''.
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''Shaft'' is a 1971 {{Blaxploitation}} film, directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman, based on Tidyman's novel of the same name. It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" Oscar, the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
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''Shaft'' is a 1971 {{Blaxploitation}} film, film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman, based on Tidyman's novel of the same name. name.
It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" Oscar, the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" Oscar, the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
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* PayingForTheActionScene: Shaft routinely compensates people for the damage his fights cause.
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''Shaft'' is a 1971 {{Blaxploitation}} film, directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman, based on Tidyman's novel of the same name. It tells the story of an African-American private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and infiltrates TheMafia in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, along with Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. Isaac Hayes did the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme song]] quoted above, which has reached MemeticMutation to the point where it may actually be better known than the movie..
movie. It also earned Hayes a "Best Original Song" Oscar, the first ever awarded to a Black musician.
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* [[{{Badass}} Bad Motherf]]-- ''[[BigShutUp Shut your mouth]]!''
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* FlippingTheBird: The original film opens with John Shaft flipping the bird at a cab driver who's honking his horn at him and yelling "Up yours! Get out of the way!"
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* FollowTheLeader: ''Shaft'' essentially was the UrExample for {{Blaxploitation}}, with ''Film/SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong'' as the genre's TropeMaker, though not an example.
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* IHaveYourWife: The mafia kidnaps Bumpy's daughter to try and make him back down.
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* FriendOnTheForce: Lt. Androzzi, one of the few cops Shaft genuinely likes and respects.
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