“In the 1970s they talked about Jim Brown being the black Burt Reynolds,
or Shaft being the black James Bond, but Pam Grier wasn’t the black
anybody, because there was nobody else, black or white, who was like
her. And there still isn’t. She founded her own genre.”-Quentin Tarantino
Pam Grier is a badass. She got her start in the exploitation films of the 1970’s and if you know me you’ll know I have a ridiculous amount of affection for such things. Pam Grier got her start as a secretary and was essentially selected to star in a movie because she was pretty and had big breasts. She ended up having boundless charisma and became a pretty good actress because she was smart and talented. Before she took of for the Philippines to make the movie that started the Women in Prison genre she went and bought books like the method and taught herself to act by reading books. She worked a lot in a lot of Roger Corman pictures which is why I know her because I have seen a lot of Roger Corman films. When I was a kid there was no IMDB so I didn’t always know people’s names. Before I knew who Pam Grier was I just knew she was among the biggest badasses I had ever seen in my entire life. She had that presence, one of those people who walked on screen and you just said, “Uh oh, those dudes are in trouble now. She’s about to go kick some ass”. Because she would. When it comes to action stars she has to be in my top five of all time. In fairness, I haven’t made a list so I can’t swear that I am right but I feel like she must be. I will go one step further, of all the things Roger Corman has given us, and it’s so many guys, he’s responsible for almost 400 movies and while a lot are bad a lot are really good, I think she’s might be the best thing he gave the world. And this man gave countless people their big brakes, from Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese to Robert DiNero and Jack Nicholson. Pam Grier is an icon. Even if you don’t know what Blaxploitation is you have an image of a movie in your mind with the baddest, jivest talking mother fuckers in the world and one of them is inevitably a tough as nails girl with a machine gun or a machete or something. She is not to be fucked with. You didn’t know it but you’re imagining Pam Grier. Because she fucking rules. Today I want to fuck Pam Grier.
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