Hi, Mom! (1970) is a black comedy film by Brian De Palma, and is one of Robert De Niro's first movies. De Niro reprises his role of Jon Rubin from Greetings (1968). In this film, Rubin is a fledgling "adult filmmaker" who has an idea to post cameras at his window and film his neighbors.
The film's most memorable sequence involves a black radical group who invite a group of WASPs to feel what it is like to be black, in a sequence titled Be Black, Baby. The sequence is both a satire and an example of the experimental theatre and cinéma vérité movements. Shot in the style of a documentary film using a hand-held camera and grainy black and white film, it features a theater group of African American actors interviewing white-skinned Caucasians on the streets of New York City, asking them if they know what it is like to be black in the United States.
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Flash light in the dark of night
Laissez faire devil may care quick silver
The feline breed your ego feed
I'm a tease if you please an infuser
Oh, but you know 'bout the juju
I colluded with the lucid a creator
Come to my place for some good taste
Rise the amorous to the rapturous alligator
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Humm, humm, humm
If you please
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Humm, humm, humm
Call for me by humming this tune
I only come when there's a full moon
Ruby red lips, painted finger tips
Make your sweet heart cry and your best friends try
Fascinate like a temptress the caress
Leaves you languishing exhausting to exhilarate
A tornado if you say so
And I shake like a quake captivate
Humm, humm, humm
Humm, humm, humm
Humm, humm, humm
Call for me by humming this tune
Hi, Mom! (1970) is a black comedy film by Brian De Palma, and is one of Robert De Niro's first movies. De Niro reprises his role of Jon Rubin from Greetings (1968). In this film, Rubin is a fledgling "adult filmmaker" who has an idea to post cameras at his window and film his neighbors.
The film's most memorable sequence involves a black radical group who invite a group of WASPs to feel what it is like to be black, in a sequence titled Be Black, Baby. The sequence is both a satire and an example of the experimental theatre and cinéma vérité movements. Shot in the style of a documentary film using a hand-held camera and grainy black and white film, it features a theater group of African American actors interviewing white-skinned Caucasians on the streets of New York City, asking them if they know what it is like to be black in the United States.
WorldNews.com | 10 Aug 2018
The Independent | 10 Aug 2018
WorldNews.com | 10 Aug 2018
WorldNews.com | 10 Aug 2018