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Synopsis: Babylon follows the story of David, a working class musician and black man in South East London. By day he works as a mechanic, at night David is a Mic controller at a local dance hall. The film centers around the racial divide of London in the 80's, the lack of opportunities available to black people and poverty. David loses his job, gets beaten up and charged by the police, forcing him to go on the run. Then breaking up with his girlfriend, all of his frustrations culminate in the stabbing of a racist neighbour.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Year:
1980
95 min
1,426 Views


No fight ing, man.

Where's your buddy? Don't

nobody want, man, Rasta.

Get together, Rasta!

Hey! I love... Cho!

Quiet! I wantto getthis song over.

Lover boy, you gonna have

to control this song tonight.

- Me?

- Yes, man, you. You do it.

Go on.

Right, folks, now Ital Lion.

First of Zion, jungle lion.

Good to see you.

Tothe inspiration of his Imperial Majesty,

Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.

Jah! Rastafari!

# Go into Lion! Lion!

# I get a call coming down the hall

# I had just had a few in the hall

# I get a call coming down the hall

# I had just had a few in the hall

# When I was a youth

I used to goto school

# Teacher just tried to make me a fool

# Lord I said them

never ever teach me history

# All the things that

were so unnecessary

# Can't take no more of t hat #

Oi, what do you want?

We all at peace now.

All right, all right.

Who's in charge here?

Don't I look like I'm in charge?

- Right. Nor do I know a blood claat...

- Are you in charge?

# Lion! Lion! Lion! Lion! Lion! Lion! #

Listen to me, sunshine...

Stop the music? Send

the people out? No, man.

The guy want to send the

people outside! I stop him.

Police outside. Saying everyone gonna...

Stand firm!

Hey, no! No! Them fooled us long enough.

They won't fool us again,

stand firm in the hall.

# Lion! Lion! Lion! Lion!

# We can't take no more of that

# Lion now say, now say We

can't take no more ofthat

# Lion say we can't take no more ofthat

# It's 400 years And it's

the same kind of living

# Brutality, hypocrisy, same immorality

# We can'ttake no more of that... #

# Say, say, say, say Lion! Lion!

# We say Lion! Lion! We say Lion! Lion!

# Because we know you

can't fool the youth no more

# Jah teach the youth the

right and true and true way

# Then you say every man shall pay

according to the rules of Babylon

# We can't take no more

of that What we say?

# Can't take no more ofthat

# Can't take no more

ofthat Say, say, say, say

# We can't take no more

of that No more ofthat

# We can't take no more of that#

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Franco Rosso

Franco Rosso (29 August 1941 – 9 December 2016), was an Italian-born film producer and director based in England, whose films demonstrate "rare sympathy and understanding with minority groups in general, immigrant minority groups in particular." He is known for making films about Black British culture, and in particular for the 1980 cult film Babylon, about Black youth in south London, which was backed by the National Film Finance Corporation. more…

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