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Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) is the token African-American executive at an otherwise all-white advertising agency when the chairman of the board unexpectedly drops dead. Through a fluke in the chain of command, Swope becomes the new head of the firm, and decides its time to do things his way.
16 de sept. de 2019 · Putney Swope almost didn’t get distributed. In 1969, at a special advance screening, Native New Yorker Downey, the father of Robert Downey Jr., reluctantly allowed Don Rugoff of Cinema Five in, even though Rugoff was late; afterward, Rugoff told him, “I don’t understand this movie, but I like it,” and shortly released the film to sold-out audiences.
Putney Swope. Comedy 1969. R. 1h 25m. After the death of the previous chairman, a Black employee on Madison Avenue becomes his agency's new president and makes some radical changes. Arnold Johnson, Pepi Hermine, Allen Garfield. Get Started. Home.
Putney Swope é um filme estadunidense em preto e branco de 1969, do gênero comédia, dirigido por Robert Downey, Sr., e estrelado por Arnold Johnson [1] como Swope, é uma comédia que satiriza o mundo da publicidade, o retrato das raças nos filmes de Hollywood, a estrutura do poder branco, e a natureza da corrupção corporativa.
20 de feb. de 2020 · The primary prediction by Putney Swope, however, is an eventual shift that the counterculture of the 1960s made, transforming from activists and political idealists into the members of the self-absorbed “Me generation.”The transition might have been expected, an inevitable comedown after the decade of love ended with such painful disillusionment.
Putney Swope, en 1969, est le premier film réalisé par Downey qui a bénéficié d’une sortie traditionnelle. Le film a été référencé par le New York Magazine dans les 10 films de l’année. Downey s’est épanoui dans le laisser-faire des années 70. Il a travaillé avec Joseph Papp et le New York Public Theatre; il a mis en scène ...
40 years before Miller's manifesto, PUTNEY SWOPE seems to envision an Afrosurreal twist on the glib language of advertising and consumerism. But unlike the liberating "illustrious and fantastic journey" the manifesto envisions, Truth and Soul Inc.'s subversiveness is ultimately a mask for all-too-familiar forms of exploitation and materialism.
