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Certain characters from the film are based on real acquaintances of Kirkland, who served time in prison after committing robbery in facepaint. [2] The film also is loosely based on several incidents involving the Black Liberation Army, notably the Brink's armored truck robbery .
I'm looking for an explanation behind the face paint used during the scene of the robbery of the armored vehicle in Dead Presidents (1995) directed by the Hughes brothers. The face paint seems like a unique way to disguise themselves contrary to the stereotypical use of ski masks, but I'm wondering if there is any significance or meaning behind it.
Oct 17, 2016 · Looming above the title and tagline (“The Only Color That Counts is Green.”) are faces obscured by the iconic black and white paint. Released in October 1995 between the announcement of O.J. Simpson’s not guilty verdict and the first Million Man March — Dead Presidents is a war movie, a coming-of-age tale and a heist flick in one.
- Julian Kimble
Sep 15, 2019 · Perhaps the most visually striking scene of the film is the heist scene, in which three of the characters don white face paint to obscure their identities; as film historian Ed Guerrero writes: “If Dead Presidents is canonized for nothing else, it will be for the brilliantly imagined image of black bandits in whiteface stealing the government ...
- Kathleen McClancy
- kmcclancy@txstate.edu
- 2019
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Nov 4, 2020 · Previewing its sharpened edge immediately by showing the armed Black characters in white-painted faces, coiled in a position to strike, there is no fairytale buried treasure pipedream in Dead Presidents.
Oct 6, 1995 · Dead Presidents: Directed by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes. With Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodríguez. A Vietnam vet adjusts to life after the war while trying to support his family, but the chance of a better life may involve crime and bloodshed.
