{"id":14816,"date":"2022-02-24T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14816"},"modified":"2022-02-23T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:17:21","slug":"watermelon-man-1970-melvin-van-peebles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14816","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Man (1970, Melvin Van Peebles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A corny white insurance agent, family man, workout nut, kinda racist, happily obnoxious to women and everyone else, wakes up Black one day.  He freaks out, and his wife calls him a white supremacist while he focuses the blame on his sun lamp and tries to figure out how to whiten his skin again.  I watched this on MLK Day, which I suppose might make me a bad person, but it&#8217;s good &#8211; a goofy but not stupid comedy (usually you get neither or both).<\/p>\n<p>Lead actor Godfrey Cambridge had an excellent year, also starring in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14461\">Cotton Comes to Harlem<\/a><\/em>.  When he goes out in public he&#8217;s hassled by cops (&#8220;He stole something &#8211; we don&#8217;t know what it is yet&#8221;).  Finally his wife and boss and neighbors reject him, but he comes to terms with himself, starting his own business and plotting to lead the next Black revolution.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/watermelon1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/watermelon2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A corny white insurance agent, family man, workout nut, kinda racist, happily obnoxious to women and everyone else, wakes up Black one day. He freaks out, and his wife calls him a white supremacist while he focuses the blame on his sun lamp and tries to figure out how to whiten his skin again. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,30,2975,926],"class_list":["post-14816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-identity","tag-melvin-van-peebles","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14856,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions\/14856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}