The Meteor Man (1993) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Though Pappas doesn’t have an issue with blacks in film per se, he doesn’t believe superhero films are efficient tools for solving the issues that confront black society. In the case of Black Panther, he is bound by a country inhabited by those who are racially just like him. He can master the information in any book ... for about 30 seconds. It is more than can be said about many popular superhero films and Townsend should be given credit for that. Well, I'd be lying if I said that this could easily rival Spiderman or the Batman movies. There is also Frank Gorsham, who played the Riddler in the original series, which Townsend loved as a child. It’s the superhero version of “stay in your place”. Jonathan Gayles, Professor of African-American Studies at University of Georgia and the director and producer of the documentary, White Scripts Black Superheroes: Black Masculinities in Comic Books was an attempt to respond to the persistent representation of black men as inherently threatening. Seeing my hometown and seeing a black hero was an event. Logged in as He’s like six or seven years old and he says, ‘Well I can’t be them because they’re white.’” Townsend was taken aback. A classic example of the hero’s journey, The Meteor Man is about a shy, unassuming Washington D.C. school teacher Jefferson Reed, who gets superpowers when he is hit by a meteor after trying to rescue an innocent woman from neighborhood thugs. Still, it was more appealing to me for it's moral value. In fact, there is a stream of prototypes. The obvious fake muscles were an unnecessary distraction especially when you take into account that the film had a $30 million budget.There are soft detractors of black superhero films as a whole like James Pappas who is Associate Professor of Transnational Studies at University at Buffalo. With daily news, interviews, in-depth investigations into the audiovisual industry, and more, Shadow and Act promotes content created by and about people of African descent throughout the world. He says, “That kind of started the journey of me thinking that kids of color need their own superhero. We needed to see images of people who looked like us. The Meteor Man was produced for $30,000,000. Gayles agrees and sees the same tendency in . Some of the funniest (and fuzziest) scenes are between Jefferson and his dog Ellington, named after the famed Washington, D.C. born jazz musician. An ex-cop, now a private detective, takes on the search for the millions stolen by a drug lord. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community from the dreaded Golden Lords.Rated PG on appeal for children caught up in perils of an urban environmentJefferson Reed a.k.a. Professor Gayle points to is undermined,” he states, “by considerable misogyny against black women in the film.” There are women of all ages and colors in and Townsend didn’t fall back on the lazy stereotypes about, or objectification of black women characters. I asked him if he was gonna be Superman or Spiderman. Showtimes. An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. Black resistance and black agency is often denied by mainstream media. The film also features special appearances by Luther Vandross, Sinbad, Naughty by Nature, Cypress Hill, and Big Daddy Kane. From Gibbs as his mother, to Nancy Wilson as the high school principal, Jenifer Lewis as concerned and annoyed parent, Lela Rochon as the attractive yet assertive nurse, Marilyn Coleman as his elderly landlady and a community leader, or Stacy his pretty co-worker with a passion for her job, all are given agency and are written as valuable as human beings. Directed by Robert Townsend. Menacing though they may be, they come off not unlike a boy band. Directed by Mike Binder. Meteor Man’s powers include the ability to fly, superhuman strength, ability to talk to dogs and master everything in any book just by touching it, x-ray and laser vision, superhuman strength, speed, advanced healing powers, telepathy with dogs and telekinesis. We'll notify you on your wishlist when movies become availableCookies help us deliver our services. The antithesis of the testosterone-fueled alpha man, Jefferson, like many superheroes, is reluctant to take on the responsibility of his powers. “It was cool because Robert Townsend had made such a name for himself because of . In this parody of blaxploitation movies, a black hero wannabe reunites former black heroes from the 70s to help him get revenge on Mr. Big.

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