Man Friday (1975)
- 1975
- ·PG
- ·115 min
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday.
But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment.
Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being.
With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.
- Actors
- Christopher Cabot·Peter Cellier·Peter O'Toole·Richard Roundtree
- Directed by
- Jack Gold
- Genre
- Drama·Adventure
- Language
- English
- Country
- UK·USA
- Director
- Jack Gold
Cannes Film Festival 1975
Absent the Pandemic, this turns into a brilliant parody of post-George Floyd America and Anarcho-Capitalism. Meant to see it at age 32 and accidentally found it on YouTube, age 82.
If you are gonna reframe Crusoe through the lens of contemporary race and class politics - i.e.
Maybe this is where the Monty Python team got their idea of the dead parrot sketch.Personally I would have preferred it if Roundtree had terminated a wildly overreacting Peter O Toole and saved us his shouting and screamng.
