Drop Squad
Drop Squad sometimes spelled as DROP Squad or D.R.O.P. Squad is an American film released in 1994. The film depicts a team of African Americans who kidnap fellow black people who have betrayed their community and seek to deprogram them so that they will change their ways. In the film, the squads acronym DROP stands for Deprogramming and Restoration of Pride. The film has been described as part thriller, part social satire.
The film portrays an advertising executive, Bruford Jamison Eriq La Salle who is in charge of the minority development division for an advertising agency. Among the ad campaigns he is involved with is one for a malt liquor called Mumblin Jack, whose billboard depicts a woman in a skimpy bikini straddling a bottle, with the slogan It Gits Ya Crazy Another ad campaign depicted in the film is a commercial filled with racial stereotypes in which Spike Lee has a cameo for a fried chicken restaurants GospelPak, which offers a Bible verse printed on every napkin. Brufords sister Lenora Nicole Powell calls in the Drop Squad to deprogram him. Bruford winds up being subjected to three weeks of psychological and physical brutality. Among the other persons who are shown being subjected to the deprogramming are a corrupt politician and a drug dealer.The film also depicts a conflict among the members of the Drop Squad as to the tactics they should use. Rocky Vondie CurtisHall, the squads leader, believes in using only nonviolent tactics, such as subjecting them to a barrage of slides, posters, slogans and family photographs in hopes of restoring their sense of community, while Garvey Ving Rhames believes that harsher methods have become necessary. ........
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