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"Do not mess aroun 'with Foxy Brown"
Beautiful, relentless and very, very cool. Foxy Brown! The female
character's most influential in genre cinema and the most famous created by
Jack Hill and starring Pam Grier.
A character who, however, blows up afratricidal "challenge":
better "Foxy Brown" or"Coffy"?
Because Foxy born as a sequel of
"The Baddest One-chick hit-squad That ever hit town" and under
the title "Burn, Coffy, Burn", but the "American International
Pictures" wants to create a movie not linked to the previous film. A
choice that requires many changes to the script and to omit, for example, the
job of Foxy.
But this is only officially a different movie, because the story and the
heroin are the same as well. A woman
(beautiful) who seeking revenge, fighting against a white gang involved in drugs and prostitution.
The difference lies in the fact that Foxy is much more pop and she
change clothes (which today would envy every lover of vintage) in almost every
scene. The pack is more stilish so, and the queen of the
"blaxploitation" is more sexy than showed in topless a thing that
probably pushed this movie to a wider audience.
After almost forty years, "Foxy Brown" is a good movie,
compact, not original in the subject, but very pleasant. Jack Hill plays it
safe even with the cast, in which there are always the clumsy Antonio Fargas
and the fierce Sid Haig, accompanied by the experienced television actor Peter
Brown, Kathryn Loder who starred in some genre films of that period (this part
was written for her) and especially by Terry Carter known to the audience for
be a producer and for his role as Sergeant Joe Broadhurst in the TV series
"McCloud" and as Colonel Tigh in "Battlestar Galactica."
Everyone work for the Queen Pam, wrapped in her clothes, cool and again
accompanied by a great soundtrack, composed in this case by Willie Hutch,
singer, author, producer of Motown Records, which in addition to have written
some songs for "Jackson 5", Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, he also
made some soundtrack for the blaxploitation movies.
Foxy Brown is the sister of Link (Antonio Fargas), a boy caught up in a
bad drug circle. Foxy is also engaged with Michael (Terry Carter) a former
undercover cop who, after a mission was redone face (most say the nose) to make
him unrecognizable. But he is recognized by Link and delivered to the bad guys,
Michael is killed, sparking the desire for revenge of Foxy. She pretends to be
a prostitute to join the gang, discovered, tortured, she manages to escape and
to complete her mission due to her anger, her intelligence and even with the
help of a group of brothers (very similar to the "Black Panthers").
A beautiful twist of events shot by a Jack Hill (in about twenty days)
able to give a sense of the action and above all capable of describing as never
before, the bad guys.
Hard to choose between this film and its predecessor, a choice that does
not seem to embarrass the director that in the DVD, says he prefers
"Coffy" and to have worked here with a small budget that the
"AIP" did not want to touch up ($ 500,000) and with very little time
available. But above all, Hill says he does not particularly love all the
changes of clothes of Pam, although on balance they have had a significant role
in the success of the film.
A nice movie that runs off smoothly without weak moments, which influenced
a fairly wide range of other films, including, of course "Jackie
Brown" by Tarantino, but also the name of an American rapper and a
Jamaican singer, not to mention Pam Grier's autobiography entitled "Foxy:
My Life in Three Acts."
Fact Sheet
Original Title: Foxy Brown
Alternative Titles: Escape sangriento (Colombia, Peru), Foxy Brown, the
Mavri tigris (Greece), Uma Mulher and ... Peras! (Portugal), Burn, Coffy, Burn!
(United States, working title), Foksi Braun (Serbia)
Year: 1974
Directed by: Jack Hill
Cast: Pam Grier, Terry Carter, Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, Peter Brown,
Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe, Juanita Brown
Duration: 94 '
Production Company: American International Pictures