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The Blaxploitation Film Blacula

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For the assignment, I watched the Blaxploitation film “Blacula”. According the Wikipedia the movie is a parody of Dracula (which I have never seen). The majority of the cast are African Americans, with a few minor roles played by white people. In the beginning of the film, Count Dracula (a white guy) supported the slave trade (this movie is from the early 70s). Mamuwalde, aka Blacula, is against the slave trade, and in the beginning of the movie, and ending the slave trade is very important to him. But then, Count Dracula turns him into a vampire. Once he is awoken, 150 years later, he is now a vampire. Instead of being concerned with the slave trade, he now is only concerned with a woman. At first, I was having a hard time understanding

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