Little trivia here, but the long mane of hair and sideburns that Superfly rocks is fake. People always tend to think that was Ron O'Neals hair, but he was actually balding. Look closely at Superfly the movie and you can see this fact evident.
shareI think it's true. I haven't seen 'Superfly' movie because I actually learn English and I can't watch film without subtitles in my language. But I was wondering, how Ron O'neal could have long hair like this, because:
a) He was balding (in 80s he had nearly no hair)
b) The black's hair is very specific. It's very shaggy and stiff. Even I have theory, that when their hair grows, it doesn't hang loose like white people's hair but it stand upright - such an 'afro'. (But it's only theory because I live in country where are not a lot of black people so I can't confirm it). So Ron couldn't have the haircut like in this movie.
But why did Ron's hair started to fall out? Negroes have very strong hair too...
It's one of the reasons that I would be black...
PS.It's a shame that Ron died...
PS2. Sorry for my language, but, as I said, I learn English and I can't speak like American :P
Respects,
Donkey
Sorry for your language? Does that explain your use of the word "coon"? Or maybe Im misunderstanding you there, tell me what you mean when you use the word "coon"...
shareListen
I'm very sorry if I hurt someone by using the word 'coon', but I... didn't know what word to use.
Let me explain: I'm Polish. In polish for black people we talk 'murzyn', but I... don't know how can I name them in english!!!
In San Andreas Computer Game I heard that they talk ' whassup n*gga'. I thought, that english talk about them in this way, so, when I was writing my last post, I used this word: 'n*gga', but the forum... censored it! I wrote 'ni**er but it had been censored too! So I cheched in dictionary, how is 'murzyn' in english, so I wrote coons.
But please listen to me: I like black people very much. It was the time, when I did want to be black. I like black music: soul, jazz, funk, rap (but ONLY black rap), so, please understand, that I'm not rasist or something in this style.
Please me explain, how I can name the black people without offence.
I'll change the 'coon' word in my last post, if it will be possible.
Please forgive me that misunderstanding.
Respects,
Donkey
I'm sorry the next time for my language and my unawareness.
The sad part about this is youre being educated on Black culture through video games and rap music. Thats what makes me hang my head at SOME of Black society, because then theres people like you who claim they dont know any better and get the wrong idea. Just dont use the "N" word or "coon", and to avoid a beatdown NEVER use that language in the mist of other Blacks in real life.
shareOK, I just didn't know. I had never written on non-polish forum before.
And I unfortunatelly can being educated on Black culture only, as you said, through video games and rap, because, as I said, I live in country, where aren't too much of Black people. I sorry the next time, I tidied my first post in this topic. And I will seek to take care what I will write.
I didn't want to irritate or offend you and the Black people thru that post. I only did want to say my opinion about Ron's hair :) But it finished tragically...
Greetings
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And while you're at it tell him not to use jig*aboo, shine, or darkie either. Negro and colored are okay, but kind of dated. Did I miss any?
shareHey, give the Pollack a break - - he barely speaks any English. "Coon" is just a word, -- get upset over important issues, not trivial ones.
share'murzyn' actually is Polish for 'dark'... not 'coon', just a little FYI ;-)
shareb) The black's hair is very specific. It's very shaggy and stiff. Even I have theory, that when their hair grows, it doesn't hang loose like white people's hair but it stand upright - such an 'afro'. (But it's only theory because I live in country where are not a lot of black people so I can't confirm it). So Ron couldn't have the haircut like in this movie.
Since you clearly don't know what you're talking about why would you make generalizations about an entire race of people, and then use the EXCUSE - you just learned the language?
You have educated yourself on being an ignorant racist, and maybe that's all you were meant to be.
it IS true. And that scene where he chasing the other guy. It took them all day to shoot that scene BECAUSE his fake hair kept falling off! LMAO
Laura
Oops...
Now I found out what means 'coon' and now I know why do some people call the negros like that. So I'm sorry all the more. But I swear that I didn't know - I only rewrote it from the dictionary.
Now when I will want to say sth on the board, I'll look to the dictionary towards checking what that the word, which I want use, means.
Greetings
Yes, yes. It is true. How do I know? Because on the DVD Special Features Ron O'Neal is interviewed shortly after the film was made and his hair was thinning. He did not try to hide it. Also, there is a fairly recent pic of him with a chrome-dome! (Go to Google Images, enter his name and look at the third pic over, top row. Yep that's him! And you know what? He was as handsome as ever. In this case, hair didn't make the man. Dayum he was handsome. Hair or no hair! There will NEVER be another Superfly! Toni L.- Los Angeles, California
shareLawd have mercy! Donkey is tripping!!!
shareTnx :).
I like Ron O'neal, and I'm going to watch 'Superfly' for a few days...
I like the Black "climates" (music like James Brown, Barry White, Black films...), and I'm going to introduce the 'blaxploitation' movies...
Greetings
Look donkey, I think that you know the english language very well. What dictionary have you been looking in? I am sure that you went pass words like "african american" or "black" before you got to the slang terms like "COON." Come on now, I think that you are just trying to be funny and you really aren't. Other than that I think that this movie was the best! From the fashion to the music it was great. I only wish that I was born around this time so that I could see the fashion show at the movies!
shareGod. How can I explain you, that it was a mistake? I have been learning English at school for maybe 10 yrs but I really didn't know that the 'COON' word is an offensive term for afroamerican people and that it is also a name of the animal. I try to learn english from Internet, games and movies and in 'San Andreas' game I heard a 'ni**er' word for a few times, so I thought that it was a term for a black peoples. But I've brought about that, which in English is a real swear-word. In our hopeless country there are other customs and this word in Polish isn't a swear-word, just a racist word that I don't use. And I really didn't know what is English term for Black people, so I looked to dictionary. And I really didn't try to be funny.
Respect,
Donkey
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Sounds like an honest mistake to me - the grammatical missteps seem too consistent to be fake.
I hope that we can cut Donkey some slack - he's apologized quite profusely.
The name of his hair style was called the Lord Jesus Christ
shareI hate finding and knowing about the trivia of movies! It's so lame!
Let movies be movies and let the magic begin.........
Best,
TAC
Who cares if he was BALDING! He's still fine to ME!
I had the distinct privilege of going to see this when it opened in the theatres in 1972.
When that scene opens on Priest laying in bed, every woman in that theatre
wanted to crawl naked across that beautiful, sexy hairy chest of his!
I was with my husband, and about four other married couples. Our husbands
could not believe our conduct, and our responses to that beautiful hunk of
man up on that screen! It was hilarious and a little intimidating to them
to say the least. We wanted to "lick" that movie screen with our tongues!
He was beautiful not only because he was sexy and handsome; but because he
was in command and in control!
He represented a new kind of strong "black man" for us in film. He not only
used his brawn, but he also used his brains.
I myself was not in agreement with promoting the use of drugs; but the film
was informative and enlightening about "real street drug culture" of that time;
and the white people in high places that were greenlighting and financing it
to be sold in our neighborhoods and communities!
"OOO...I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
That's interesting about the hair. I thought it was probably fake and stuff just by how it looks. But I also thought about other seventies movies where people have odd hair treatments, black and white alike. I wasn't distracted by it, and thought that he still looked like a sexy man. I actually have that moustache right now! Was the moustache real? LOL.
shareDonkey (very apropos name,btw)
Most hair in film (& theater)is fake, for continuity purposes. It is difficult on the actors natural hair to alter, color, texture, length, genre, etc. from scene to scene...project to project.
I would think they have an entertainment industry in Poland & that Poles have different textures of hair like most ethnicities, USA is many things.. homogenous isn't one of them.
Man, and I thought that it was only black people who got into these highly superficial, crass conversations about hair texture.
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