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00:00The idea of Joe Bullitt was born and I said I want to make it like a black James Bond.
00:16They see him, they must recognize him, the kids in the townships must go crazy about
00:19this hero.
00:20We're so excited.
00:21We felt like, you know, real stars.
00:22Most black people were not having the main roles.
00:36Whites lived in this bubble of ignorance and denial and the black community lived out of
00:43sight.
00:46It was actually hard to be a filmmaker because if you wanted to give a message over to the
00:50public you had to sugarcoat it because otherwise your film would get banned and you'd lose
00:54your investment and you'd probably never make another movie again.
00:56There are famous cases of writers thrown off train platforms and killed and no one knows
01:02how or why.
01:06Almost every weekend we were going to funerals of comrades.
01:09That's how bad things were.
01:10When they said it's banned after that, it was the norm.