As its title character might put it, “Dolemite Is My Name” is a total mother—kin’ blast. It tells the story — all true, all outrageous — of how one of the most successful blaxploi…
” is a total mother—kin’ blast. It tells the story — all true, all outrageous — of how one of the most successful blaxploitation films of the ’70s, the insanely over-the-top and borderline inept “Dolemite” , came to be. And it turns that story into a celebration of the effrontery of African-American showbiz. One definition of soul, given the history of racism in this country, is that’s about the art of making more out of less.
Onstage, Dolemite speaks in couplets that sound like X-rated nursery rhymes . And he delivers them with such lip-smacking bravura that the crowd goes wild. It’s pure vaudeville street burlesque, and Rudy knows how to sell it. As a straight-up comedian, he’s third-rate, but as Dolemite , he’s a deliriously foul-mouthed cult hit. And so he sets about recording an album. At home.
“I once walked from New York city to the deep Deep South, just to slap a mother—er in his mother—in’ mouth,” “Dolemite Is My Name” tells the story of a black man trying to make and distribute a movie in a world full of shut doors, so it’s about a struggle that’s on some level heroic. At the same time, the film he’s making is no “Sweetback.
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