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The Queen of Blaxploitation

The Plot Thickens

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Coffee by the Amazing Roy Ayers by Jacqueline Stewart

Jacqueline Stewart: The opening sequence to Coffee is a perfect encapsulation about all black exploitation films set up their narratives and kind of work stylistically. We're in a nightclub, of course, and this funky music is blaring. A two-bit hustler comes in looking for the big man. She's lures the guy into the car, and then we get this long sequence of just driving.

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