Shaft's a bad mutha. . .Shut yo' mouth!
I'm 34 years old. So, when the original Shaft was released, I wasn't even a twinkle in my mom's eyes. After all, she had just given birth to my older sister. However, she was a huge fan of Richard Roundtree and his iconic character John Shaft. Because of her and my cool Daddy, who had a John Shaft leather coat, I became a fan of the Gordon Parks film. Shaft was that dude. A sexy black man solving crimes, kicking ass and romancing the ladies. 40 years later, this movie is still one of the best pieces of cinema out there. Let's forget about John Singleton's horrid remake with Sam Jackson in the title role. What made Shaft an iconic character was the fact that he was a black man making his own rules, talking shit to white folks and doing it all with style. He made women fall in love with him and no one wears leather like John Shaft. (Sorry PETA) Some people call this "blaxplotation" but movies like Shaft and Foxy Brown led the way for big budget act...