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Dark Angels (1998) reached the Top 100 (#37) at JustWatch [ Ссылка ]
In Dark Angels, a pregnant woman faces a choice between her abusive husband and her unborn baby on the way. Their world is full of sex, drugs, money, and power, with violence an ever-present threat. On the mean streets of Atlanta, the expectant mother finds that only spiritual awareness and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse can help her escape the madness.
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David Wadley, a pioneering African American filmmaker, ignored conventional Hollywood and broke ground as the writer, producer, and director of Dark Angels, the first faith-based gangsta movie. The film is available on multiple streaming platforms.
Dark Angels cemented its place in cinematic history as the first Hard Faith movie. It was followed by notable additions to the genre, including The Affair (2023), directed by Dennis L. Reed II.
Wadley, known as The Price Bandit, is affiliated with companies across various industries, including women's clothing, groceries, streaming services, health, finance, staffing, automotive, and real estate. #ThePriceBandit has produced numerous classic R&B music videos on YouTube. Wadley is also the author of the widely read essay "All Women Are Beautiful".
Formerly a firefighter/EMT in the Atlanta area and a surveillance agent at various Las Vegas casinos, Wadley has worked in filmmaking at Warner Bros. Studios, Sony Pictures, and MGM Studios. He is a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, served as the Supervising Sound Editor for "Soul Plane" (2004), and has been a production assistant on the Hollywood sets of movies produced by notable figures such as Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Robert De Niro, and Melvin Van Peebles.
Wadley later served as a federal officer with the U.S. Federal Government for twenty years.
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Je Nie Fleming (Acrimony, Law & Order) portrays Angela. Fleming previously costarred with Hollywood legends Billy Dee Williams and John Cassavetes in Marvin & Tige.
Throughout Angela's dream sequences, character names hint at the story's subtext, influenced by the Crusades of the Middle Ages. Charlemagne, whose foreign conquests and internal reforms helped define Western Europe between 760 and 813, has been redeveloped as an African American funeral director, Charles Maine, portrayed by veteran Baltimore stage actor Louis B. Murray (Homicide, House of Cards).
Maine operates a family-owned funeral home in a modern-day inner-city neighborhood. His able assistant and sidekick, Rodrigo Bivar, is played by Roberto Gutierrez. While casting Dark Angels, Wadley discovered Gutierrez in 1992 when he was a 19-year-old kung fu student at a New York martial arts school. Inspired by his experience working on his first feature film, Gutierrez later became one of Hollywood's top stunt coordinators/stuntmen (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Halloween Kills, The Suicide Squad).
In Dark Angels, Gutierrez is a martial artist extraordinaire whose character is named after Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar—El Cid, the military general who altered European military history between 1087 and 1099. The names of Angela and Demond (angel and demon) and other characters, such as Grace, Pope, Saxon, Lombard, and Tassilo, add to the film's Crusades-related theme.
In the opening of Angela's dream segments, Maine has had enough of the senseless drug-related violence that has plagued his neighborhood for far too long.
Angela's dreams culminate with the wrath of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation, who provide a terrifying climax during the film's final moments. Inside the world of Dark Angels, there are no decisive winners in a war between judgmental heroes and ambitious villains. The only true superhero is God.
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Music Video Produced and Edited by The Price Bandit (David Wadley)
Supervising Sound Editor, Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), IATSE Local 700)
TV Interview: Ben Jonathan of WUPN-Atlanta
Movie Clips: Dark Angels (1998), Super Fly (1972), Shaft (1971), The Mack (1973), Cleopatra Jones (1973), Panther (1995), Tales From the Hood (1995), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
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