I wanted to edit my post above ..but some reason the edit button isn't working....so... I'll finish it here....Just what effect movie has on kids? As in anything...there is a cause and effect to everything...But I really don't think this movie Super-fly had that much effect on us..I say us because I was one that saw it, at the time it came out. Front row center, the styles were already out when this movie appeared. Did it glorify the pimps life style? ...sure it did...but no more then seeing them (pimps) in real life. You have to understand back then Pimpin was the norm. So if you saw a Pimpin movie it was more comical then anything because you already knew it was more of a fable then anything. Growing up we all knew Pimps and Hustlers so we could easily tell this movie was just for entertainment. Just as "Cotton Comes to Harlem", The Mack, and the rest. Did we try to emulate them? All I can say is , None of my friends did. Because we could just look out the window and see the real thing...and it wasn't appealing to us as kids. Did some grow up and try to pimp...yes some did...but it wasn't because of the movies...it was because, just as today, they didn't have anything better.
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