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Assuming he is incapable of winning, all of the members of a prestigious Madison Avenue advertising firm accidentally vote to appoint the company's only black executive, Putney Swope, as chairman of the board. His unexpected win behind him, Swope changes the company's name to 'Truth and Soul, Inc,' fires nearly all of its elderly white ...
31 de ago. de 2019 · I first heard of Putney Swope when the post-Dissolve podcast The Next Picture Show covered it last year as a point of comparison for Sorry to Bother You, a film I enjoyed a great deal.It was an incredibly apt selection with plenty of thematic overlap between the two pictures, despite Boots Riley’s admission that he had never seen Putney Swope himself before writing his debut screenplay.
Madison Avenue satires were nothing new in 1969. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) and Lover Come Back (1961) had made comic four course meals out of side dish material in films only peripherally concerned with the advertising business, from Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) to North by Northwest (1959). The popular sitcom Bewitched (which debuted in 1964) was set in part in a ...
A hallmark of 1960s radicalism and one of the first major underground films, Robert Downey Sr.'s seminal Putney Swope remains a classic of social satire. After the CEO croaks during a boardroom meeting at a Madison Avenue ad agency, members trying to sabotage each other's chance of winning the top spot each vote for the token black guy, thereby electing Putney Swope.
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The most popular film by Downey is this offbeat classic about the antics that ensue after Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, dubbed by Downey), the token black man on the board of a Madison Avenue advertising agency, is inadvertently elected chairman, and proceeds to wreak politically incorrect havoc.
The most popular film by Downey is this offbeat classic about the antics that ensue after Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, dubbed by Downey), the token black man on the board of a Madison Avenue advertising agency, is inadvertently elected chairman, and proceeds to wreak politically incorrect havoc.
