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Aug 21, 1975 · “Coonskin,” which opened yesterday at the Trans‐Lux East and the Bryan, is a shatterigly successful effort to use an uncommon form—cartoons and live action combined —to convey the hallucinatory...
[2] Eventually, positive reviews appeared in The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, the New York Amsterdam News (an African American newspaper), and elsewhere, but the film died at the box office.
Action. 100 minutes ‧ 1975. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1975. 3 min read. Ralph Bakshi’s “Coonskin” is said by its director to be about blacks and for whites, and by its ads to be for blacks and against whites. Its title was originally intended to break through racial stereotypes by its bluntness, but now the ads say the hero and his pals ...
Mar 13, 2015 · Cartoons with a conscience: Jimmy T. Murakami’s “When the Wind Blows” (1986) gently addressed nuclear annihilation, while Ralph Bakshi’s “Coonskin” (1975) tackled racism.
Coonskin: Directed by Ralph Bakshi. With Barry White, Charles Gordone, Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas. Rabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police.
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- Animation, Action, Comedy
- Ralph Bakshi
- 1975-08-20
Jul 11, 2016 · A subversive and satirical re-imagining of Disney’s Song Of The South transplanted to Harlem, Ralph Bakshi’s incendiary masterpiece Coonskin exploits and eviscerates grotesque American racial stereotypes with a politically incorrect, profane and vicious sense of humor.
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Spoofs. Godfather mockingly sings part of "Ol' Man River" from this musical. There are several references to the controversial Disney classic in "Coonskin." In one of them, Brother Rabbit makes a tar version of himself, in order to fool the Mafia, a reference to the tar baby in "Song of the South."
