Name the Strongest, black male lead roles in film depicted as family/community leaders...

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Sidney Poitier in "To Sir, With Love."

 

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Bill Cosby in "Man and Boy."

 

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Ivan Dixon in "Nothing But A Man."

 

[UserNameless]

Sidney Poitier in "To Sir, With Love."

Sidney was in rare form in this role. He truly set the standard. Such class. Such dignity. Such flair.

Bill Cosby in "Man and Boy."

Ivan Dixon in "Nothing But A Man."

All good ones... see how far back we gotta go, tho?


Keep 'em coming...

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Denzel in The Great Debaters.

 

[UserNameless]

Denzel in The Great Debaters.

... I think this is based on a true story, tho... still a strong, important role.

 

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[awkwardblackgirl]

Sidney Poitier in "To Sir, With Love."

Love this movie

 

[Originalman]

Come to think of it Furious Styles definitely qualifies

Still to this day one of the deepest scenes in a movie. You would never see this scene in a mainstream movie now a days.

 

[Originalman]

Father from ditch diggers daughters tv movie.

 

[awkwardblackgirl]

This movie made me cry

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Samuel L Jackson in A Time to Kill

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Detective Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon.

Yeah he tried to keep his daughter from wenching.

He held his life together and Riggs life together.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Ben from night of the living dead.


He held it down but you gotta see the ending for yourselves.



Also Denzel in the Magnificent seven

I think it's powerful that Get Out is the anti-NOTLD ending, which makes both movies that much more important.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Like another poster said this is a Furious Styles appreciation thread. Not only is he one of the greatest black community male leaders who is a great man he is one of the greatest regardless of race. I mean he regularly gets compared to Atticus Finch from to Kill a mocking bird.

What? for real? I don't know, man.

Atticus is on a whole other level. If there could be a Magical Cac, he'd be it. He's the cac other cacs wish they were, and admit they aren't but they want to be him anyway, he's that idealized. Dude's on Jesus power level, film-wise.