With this Ticket to Hollywood , Robert Townsend, who began as an actor in Cooley High - sign is his first project: a comedy particularly successful and relevant, this who was running badly in the 80's marked by a decline in the representation of African-American man confined to comic roles tasteless. Townsend comes blasting stereotypes ...
HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE - Robert Townsend (1986)
Bobby Taylor (Robert Townsend) dreams of becoming a Hollywood actor and repeats for its hearings with his little brother. In the meantime, he works at a fast food restaurant, the Winky Dinky Dog, and these gentlemen (John Witherspoon & Keenen Ivory Wayans) are doing everything to dissuade him from becoming an actor. Bobby spends castings, crosses many budding actresses and actors like him and ready to play all roles. But they are mostly very stereotypical roles that require him to casters white (and especially the double roles of Eddie Murphy), a nasal urban diction e 
t tyrades footprints of misogyny or racism ... Bobby
considerable speculation. Criticized by his colleagues and friends by her grandmother (Helen Martin) who has experienced the worst period for blacks in Hollywood films, torn by dreams of glory, or anxious to see his brother and admire pimps gangsters being asked to play: it must make a choice.
While the late 70s and early 80s were accompanied by a decline in certain characters given to blacks and subjects ttraités, the period is marked by the disappearance 
almost completely African filmmakers U.S.. This dual decline was a vicious circle that just break Robert Townsend. In the tradition of the great names of African-American cinema, he wrote, directed and produced. For scenario is supported by Keenen Ivory Wayans. The family is well represented and made his first steps in front of or behind the camera and then, in addition Kennen Ivory, Damon and found the little sister Kim. And nearly two dozen actresses and second-tier players are also found in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka or Dont Be A Menace ...
Everything is relevant and well found in this film claim: During the "jive talking", look-alikes of Eddie Murphy's voice changes depending on whether blacks to speak to their fellow actor, also black, white or casters. Townsend also tries-and successfully- to parodies of blockbusters or Bisserie soul: Rambo Mandingo , Indiana Jones , Amadeus, Dirty Harry , JD's Revenge ... are thus diverted with a comic talent, a keen eye and at the same time, undisguised sympathy.
And everything is very light, neither faculty nor heavily militant. There is a plethora
Gules known, and Townsend relishes multiply second fiddle to all the major eras of cinema: the blaxploitation course with Helen Martin, David McKnight
(the JD Walker JD's Revenge ), Franklyn Ajaye ( Car Wash.), Jesse Kitten ( Mahogany ), Steve James ( Sonny Carson The Education Of , The Warriors or Kung-Fu Joe in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka ), The Tari ( Brotherhood Of Death) ... But also the veteran of "all black cast ", Nick Stewart, who played in Cabin In the Sky , Stormy Weather and Carmen Jones . The new generation is also represented with the Wayans family, I have spoken, but also John Witherspoon, Jimmy Woodard, Paul Mooney, Nancy Cheryll Davis, Starletta Dupois ...
t tyrades footprints of misogyny or racism ... Bobby considerable speculation. Criticized by his colleagues and friends by her grandmother (Helen Martin) who has experienced the worst period for blacks in Hollywood films, torn by dreams of glory, or anxious to see his brother and admire pimps gangsters being asked to play: it must make a choice.
While the late 70s and early 80s were accompanied by a decline in certain characters given to blacks and subjects ttraités, the period is marked by the disappearance 
almost completely African filmmakers U.S.. This dual decline was a vicious circle that just break Robert Townsend. In the tradition of the great names of African-American cinema, he wrote, directed and produced. For scenario is supported by Keenen Ivory Wayans. The family is well represented and made his first steps in front of or behind the camera and then, in addition Kennen Ivory, Damon and found the little sister Kim. And nearly two dozen actresses and second-tier players are also found in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka or Dont Be A Menace ... 
Everything is relevant and well found in this film claim: During the "jive talking", look-alikes of Eddie Murphy's voice changes depending on whether blacks to speak to their fellow actor, also black, white or casters. Townsend also tries-and successfully- to parodies of blockbusters or Bisserie soul: Rambo Mandingo , Indiana Jones , Amadeus, Dirty Harry , JD's Revenge ... are thus diverted with a comic talent, a keen eye and at the same time, undisguised sympathy. And everything is very light, neither faculty nor heavily militant. There is a plethora
Gules known, and Townsend relishes multiply second fiddle to all the major eras of cinema: the blaxploitation course with Helen Martin, David McKnight
(the JD Walker JD's Revenge ), Franklyn Ajaye ( Car Wash.), Jesse Kitten ( Mahogany ), Steve James ( Sonny Carson The Education Of , The Warriors or Kung-Fu Joe in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka ), The Tari ( Brotherhood Of Death) ... But also the veteran of "all black cast ", Nick Stewart, who played in Cabin In the Sky , Stormy Weather and Carmen Jones . The new generation is also represented with the Wayans family, I have spoken, but also John Witherspoon, Jimmy Woodard, Paul Mooney, Nancy Cheryll Davis, Starletta Dupois ... 
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