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When its chairman dies, an advertising firm's executive board must elect someone to fill the position. Each member, unable to vote for himself, casts a secret ballot for Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson), the firm's only black executive, assuming he wouldn't receive any votes from the other members. But once in power, Swope makes radical changes to the firm -- like keeping only one white employee ...
40 years before Miller's manifesto, PUTNEY SWOPE seems to envision an Afrosurreal twist on the glib language of advertising and consumerism. But unlike the liberating "illustrious and fantastic journey" the manifesto envisions, Truth and Soul Inc.'s subversiveness is ultimately a mask for all-too-familiar forms of exploitation and materialism.
28 de sept. de 2006 · · Putney Swope screens on Thursday 28 September, 8.30pm at the Barbican cinema, London. The Putney Swope soundtrack is out now on Fortune Teller Records. Explore more on these topics.
Putney Swope is 6974 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 2828 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Run! Bitch Run! but less popular than The Velveteen Rabbit. Synopsis.
11 de nov. de 2017 · This is a trailer for Putney Swope. I screened it last semester for my seminar on Post-Nazi America at The-College-on-the-Hill.
Putney Swope Movie. Putney Swope. Don't Rock the boat…. Sink it. Swope is the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, and is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board. themoviedb. Buy Details Resources RSS.
7 de jul. de 2021 · Yet “Putney Swope” remains Downey Sr.’s masterpiece and was chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2016. “Searching for Mr. Rugoff” opens on August 13.
