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Originally produced under the titles Harlem Nights and Coonskin No More... at Paramount Pictures, Coonskin encountered controversy before its original theatrical release, when the Congress of Racial Equality accused the film of being racist.
Because everybody has tried to get his hand in the money pot and nobody (the filmmakers excepted) has had the wit or courage to see the movie in a true light, “Coonskin” looks doomed. That’s a shame. This isn’t the very best work by Bakshi, whose two earlier films combined brilliant animation with a harrowing vision of the urban experience.
Mar 31, 2017 · But in 1975, no film was more controversial nor created an intense furor that year than Bakshi’s animated adult film “Coonskin.”
Ralph Bakshi’s 1975 film Coonskin presents its audience with so much racially charged, controversial and deliberately offensive material its impossible to formulate a response as you watch it.
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.
- (3.8K)
- Animation, Action, Comedy
- Ralph Bakshi
- 1975-08-20
While this film was an animated feature, none of the stories or plot depicted is entirely fiction. The film truly is a woven basket of oral traditions, revamped into an adult world, spinning tales from real events.
Coonskin is a 1975 live action/animated Blaxploitation Parody written and directed by Ralph Bakshi, and produced by Albert S. Ruddy (The Godfather). A Darker and Edgier take on the African-American Br'er note Rabbit folk tales, as well as a satire of the racial controversy surrounding Disney 's Song of the South, which is based on the folk ...
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