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Godfrey Cambridge

“I think that the fascinating thing about the theater is that for every human being there is a different variation, he can bring something else [to the role], he has different thinking unique to his own being.”

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    WATERMELON MAN

    MELVIN VAN PEEBLES United States, 1970

    Inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Melvin Van Peebles’s only studio vehicle critiques Hollywood’s facile representations of race with hilarity and subversiveness. By dismantling the lily-white aesthetics of the family sitcom, Watermelon Man exposes the hypocrisies of American liberalism.

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