Welcome to Flopcorn, where Reader writers and contributors pay tribute to our very favorite bad movies. In this installment, writer Princess McDowell makes the case that Demolition Man is really a black movie.
What makes Simon unique, though, is that he’s a black man’s villain, talking shit the entire time he shares the screen with Sly Stone’s John Spartan. When he says, “I’ve been dreaming ‘bout killing you for 40 years,” he could’ve easily been talking to an ex-Spades partner who reneged on his birthday. Simon rocks a blond, punk-rock cut and overalls over an orange-mesh shirt, all signals that he’s not to be fucked with. And even as he’s fighting off San Angeles’s neutered police force, beats and drums are timed to match the breaking bones.
