  Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1754 Registered: 01-2004 |
I could swear there was an earlier thread about this movie but I can not locate it. I just was given a copy of this cinematic masterpiece, and WOW. Great shots of 1973 Detroit. I went through the whole movie and took screenshots of locations I recognized. Check it out: http://www.detroitfunk.com/200 7/08/07/detroit_9000.htm | ||
3420 Member Username: 3420 Post Number: 126 Registered: 10-2003 |
I have been looking for a copy too. I saw bits and pieces of this movie when I first saw it about 4 years ago. The last part I stopped at was when they were at the Book Cadillac and I think it was some type of political event going on there. Last scene I saw. But this movie is good. Got to get me a copy soon along with Uptown Saturday Night. | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 3908 Registered: 10-2003 |
Great chase scene at the end, they go into the old Train Station that was located where WCC is now. It boggles my mind that somebody would tear a building like that down. | ||
Exmotowner Member Username: Exmotowner Post Number: 385 Registered: 06-2005 |
"Visit the murder capital of the world--where the honkies are the minority!" No racism there for sure. Now how the hell do you think were suppose to feel about detroit, when we see shit like this? Oh detroits not a racist city, just the white people are racist. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1756 Registered: 01-2004 |
Yeah - Look at the screen shots of the train station. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 745 Registered: 10-2003 |
"Visit the murder capital of the world--where the honkies are the minority!" Funny because it's true! (Message edited by ed golick on August 07, 2007) | ||
Bumble Member Username: Bumble Post Number: 278 Registered: 11-2004 |
Amazing who you find here. You shot that film, Mauser? | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 1215 Registered: 02-2006 |
Bumble, where did you get that, lol? | ||
Bumble Member Username: Bumble Post Number: 280 Registered: 11-2004 |
He put his copyright on the stills. Why wouldn't I think that? | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1758 Registered: 01-2004 |
Thanks to MikeM for the ident on Sacred Heart, I sure thought that looked familiar, and I suspected the filmmakers got up to the Nortown region due to the architecture of the one apartment building where that girl dies in the hallway - Charles Agree. Yesssss..I created the film when I was 5 years old, thats why the dialog is so bad. | ||
Hutt Member Username: Hutt Post Number: 25 Registered: 10-2005 |
DETROITFUNK is the bomb!!! | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 514 Registered: 08-2006 |
I wonder what Detroit will be like in the year 9000? | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1759 Registered: 01-2004 |
Hahaha ! I was wondering what that title was about too. 9000 ? | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 215 Registered: 02-2007 |
The "9000" was just a catch name type thing. A lot of products back then ended with it. I think there was a whopper chopper kitchen aid being sold on UHF channels with 9000 in it's name. Ford had a truck called the 9000. And the phrase or saying that was very popular back then and till this day I cannot figure out why was "Keep on truckin'" It was everywhere. T-shirts, bumper stickers. In songs. That 9000 for whatever reason sort of tied into that era. It made it seem faster or bigger or something. Sort of like "Plan 9 from outer space" by the infamous Ed Wood. One of my all time fav's. | ||
Quozl Member Username: Quozl Post Number: 1157 Registered: 07-2005 |
Keep on Truckin' was first illustrated by Robert Crumb in the underground comix "ZAP" #1 in 1967:  | ||
Mr_onion Member Username: Mr_onion Post Number: 190 Registered: 11-2003 |
a small part in Detroit 9000 but memorable, a long time Detroit Actor , ERNIE WYNNSTANLEY, R.I.P also was one of actors from The Lone Ranger. | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 271 Registered: 10-2003 |
Wasn't "9000" a code for a cop who's been shot or in trouble? | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 2373 Registered: 06-2004 |
Yes. 9000 meant "officer down" I think it is even on the back cover of the VHS that I have somewhere. | ||
Dannaroo Member Username: Dannaroo Post Number: 109 Registered: 05-2006 |
Here's a little tidbit for you about this cinematic masterpiece: The soundtrack to Tarrentino's "Jackie Brown" sampled a few lines from "Detroit 9000" | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1762 Registered: 01-2004 |
Nice ! Also: in the opening the soul band in the Book Caddy ballroom is playing songs written by Holland/Dozier/Holland. They had split from Berry Gordy well before that time, and had a publishing office in the Cadillac Tower. (HDH wrote a pile of hits for Motown) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H olland-Dozier-Holland | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 440 Registered: 11-2006 |
Its a great movie: I have it in my collection of blaxploitation films. Quozl I like that strip of Keep on truckin. I collect comics. There is a shot of the police station downtown as well as a small hamburger stand. Anyone know where the stand is? | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 1111 Registered: 11-2003 |
Mauser765, it'd be good to remove your copyright notice from the screenshots of the film, since the film is already copyrighted. One minor correction: the movie shows the Washington Blvd. canopy, not the Michigan Ave. one as you stated. | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 112 Registered: 09-2006 |
Mauser765, On your page you asked for an ID on the Hospital.   | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1763 Registered: 01-2004 |
wow - cool. That hospital is still in there built into the complex, isnt it ? | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1764 Registered: 01-2004 |
How about that basketball scene, where the cop is coaching a team of kids, and the other cop comes to talk to him - Brodhead Armory ?  | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1765 Registered: 01-2004 |
Nope - I just checked and that is not Brodhead. Any ideas ? | ||
Detourdetroit Member Username: Detourdetroit Post Number: 331 Registered: 10-2003 |
bleary eyed goimg to bed. coul dbe dpd hq gym in greektown | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4060 Registered: 10-2003 |
Mauser, that gym look reminds me of the old downtown YMCA. It looks like the south wall where the windows were. A banked lap track ran around the top of the gym, which can be seen in that picture and the stairs leading to them were in the right corner as in your picture. To fuzzy to tell but close if not the real thing. | ||
Krapug Member Username: Krapug Post Number: 64 Registered: 12-2003 |
9000 is a great movie and there are a number of downtown landmarks that you get a chance to see. As mentioned the former Union Station is featured in the chase scene, as well as the approach tracks to this station. After the robbery at the then Sheraton Caddilac, look closely and you will see a night time view of Hudson's Display Windows. The racial overtones in the film were very real for the time that it was filmed. In the movie it mentions a call in program that the Detroit Police had called "Buzz The Fuzz". Was that real? Once the B-C re-opens, this movie will be a great way to see how close they came to recreating the Grand Ballroom. Ken | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 1116 Registered: 11-2003 |
Krapug-- The street scenes during and after the robbery were all shot around the B-C; Hudson's isn't visible. I think Buzz the Fuzz was real, though I don't know if that was the exact real name. | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 217 Registered: 02-2007 |
"Buzz The Fuzz". Was that real? Yes. Its a vague memory, but yes. They used to mention it on CKLW and Keener13. These threads refresh a lot of almost forgotten memories. Where can I get a copy of this movie? | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1767 Registered: 01-2004 |
www.eastwestdvd.com | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1768 Registered: 01-2004 |
hm. Thats the company but didnt see this title. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Detroit- 9000-Hari-Rhodes/dp/B00004Z4SF | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 220 Registered: 02-2007 |
Mauser, Thanks for finding that. I just bought one. | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 243 Registered: 02-2007 |
Just watched it, a must see for any Detroiter. | ||
Tony_box_42 Member Username: Tony_box_42 Post Number: 77 Registered: 12-2006 |
" Buzz The Fuzz" was a Radio call in show on WJLB. Aired on Thursdays at 8:30. Martha Jean "The Queen" was the host. Police Commissioner John Nichols,Sgt. Fred Williams and an Inspector whose name escapes me participated. |
