Fritz The Cat Page #6

Synopsis: A persiflage on the protest movements of the 60s. Its hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb. Quitting university Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther and Hell's Angels scenes to find to himself.
Director(s): Ralph Bakshi
Production: American International Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
UNRATED
Year:
1972
78 min
1,774 Views


-Let's split.

Anybody looking our way?

Some stud

gone and left his keys.

What are you doing?

You stealing that car?

Shove over, Jack!

Let me drive this goddamn thing.

Move it out!

Hey, man,

you cats can't drive.

You don't know nothing

about nothing.

Can't you see that car go by?

Cool it, will you?

I drive like a crow.

-Man, look, slow down!

-l see the light.

Man, you'll get killed up here!

Bullshit, Ralph!

Would you please shut up?

It's bad enough

we got transferred up here...

without you bullshitting

all night.

Now, I gotta cover my beat...

and I'll meet you

back here in an hour.

One hour, Ralph.

And, Ralph...

please, be careful.

Yeah, but Harlem?

Come on, slow the car down!

Look out, man!

I ain't ready to die yet!

Harlem?

I know what I'm doing.

The only faces...

you can see in a crowd

up here is ours.

The way they look,

all you can see is their eyes.

I don't like it here.

I see the f***ing fuzz.

Cool it, just cool it.

Right through the head

I'm gonna get you!

Throw that pig out!

Look out!

Cool it, man, will you?

I know what I'm doing.

Like hell you do.

Duke, you saved my life, man!

Sh*t!

Yesterdays

Yesterdays

Days I knew as happy sweet

Sequestered days

Olden days

Golden days

Days of mad romance

And love

Then gay youth was mine

And truth was mine

Joyous free and flaming life

Them-sooth was mine

Sad am l

Glad am l

For today

I'm dreaming of

Yesterdays

That you, Sonny?

It's me, baby.

-How's the crowd tonight?

-Not bad.

We're pushing enough grass

to make our money.

Just enough.

But it sure ain't like

the good old days in Harlem...

when white money was boss...

and them fine, white cats

came up to Harlem...

spreading it all around

Big Bertha.

Oh, child.

That was before

all those peace marches...

sit-ins, riots, and 'dos.

Ain't nothing wrong

with no peace marches.

It's me, baby.

Who's that joker?

Friend of mine.

Cat, you ever been high on pot?

Are you kidding me, man?

Grass?

Who doesn't, you know?

What do you think,

I'm some kind of a hick?

Let's get that cat going on pot!

Take one.

That's what

I'm talking about, baby.

Nothing wrong, take two.

Come on, be a club member.

That's it!

Take three! Take four!

Five, six, seven!

That's it, baby!

He ain't losing now,

no, indeed.

Joint, Hilly! A joint!

Stay loose!

Fritz, come on, now, stop!

Yo, Fritz!

Fritz, come on, now,

stop it!

No, don't stop! Oh, yeah!

Oh, no, Fritz! Come on!

Hey, toro!

Hully gully cat!

Climb, sugar!

Right there! No, Fritz!

Come on, Fritz!

Aw, man, yeah!

Will you look at that?

You ain't black enough, hon.

That old black magic got me!

Oh, Fritz! That's right!

Right there, honey!

Wow, wow, wow!

Pump that thing!

Suddenly it's all very clear!

I must tell the people

about the revolution!

Revolt! Revolt!

Damn you! What the hell

you jabbering about now?

Revolt!

Revolt! Revolt!

Revolt,

you thick-skulled idiots!

You have carried heavy burdens

for the bosses!

You have sweat your lives away

for the bosses!

The bosses!

They ride around in limousines!

Get the f*** off my car!

Bosses...they're eating

strawberries and cream !

That's funny!

Cats are real boss!

All right,

what's going on here?

Break it up!

Cool it, officer.

He's just blowing hot air.

No one's paying no mind.

Come the revolution,

there'll be no more limousines!

Come the revolution,

no more strawberries and cream !

Hey, Ralph, you know how

these dumb kids are.

They don't know what they doing.

F***ing "A" right.

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Ralph Bakshi

Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 2015, he directed ten theatrically released feature films, six of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator. Beginning his career at the Terrytoons television cartoon studio as a cel polisher, Bakshi was eventually promoted to animator, and then director. He moved to the animation division of Paramount Pictures in 1967 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968. Through producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi made his debut feature film, Fritz the Cat, released in 1972. It was the first animated film to receive an X rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and the most successful independent animated feature of all time. Over the next eleven years, Bakshi directed seven additional animated features. He is well known for such films as Wizards (1977), The Lord of the Rings (1978), American Pop (1981) and Fire and Ice (1983). In 1987, Bakshi returned to television work, producing the series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which ran for two years. After a nine-year hiatus from feature films, he directed Cool World (1992), which was largely rewritten during production and received poor reviews. Bakshi returned to television with the live-action film Cool and the Crazy (1994) and the anthology series Spicy City (1997). During the 2000s, he focused largely on fine art and painting and in 2003 co-founded The Bakshi School of Animation with his son Eddie and Jess Gorell. Bakshi has received several awards for his work, including the 1980 Golden Gryphon for The Lord of the Rings at the Giffoni Film Festival, the 1988 Annie Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation, and the 2003 Maverick Tribute Award at the Cinequest Film Festival. more…

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