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When its chairman dies, an advertising firm's executive board must elect someone to fill the position. Each member, unable to vote for himself, casts a secret ballot for Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson), the firm's only black executive, assuming he wouldn't receive any votes from the other members. But once in power, Swope makes radical changes to the firm -- like keeping only one white employee ...
1 de ago. de 2006 · Though definitely a cheaply produced, 1960s period piece, Putney Swope still manages to serve up an interesting cocktail of early-Woody Allen type comedy shaken, not stirred, with biting social satire. It builds upon a clever role reversal premise, in which '60s "movement" black radicals take over a stodgy Madison Ave ad agency.
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 ...
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.
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 (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.
