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Blaxploitation is more of a style than a color. One of the most important parts about it is that the primary characters are often small time hoods (notice that the "score" in Jackie Brown is $100,000, in a time when Austin Powers mocks 60s spy villains for holding the world hostage for a cool million Tarentino makes a movie where half a dozen people die for 1/10 that), and there's that sense of oppression by "the man" and "the system". After that there's the music, and the hip cool streetwise thing. One of the best explainations of the genre is I'm Gonna Get You Sucka. That's the Wayans' brothers spoof of the genre, but in the process of spoofing it they also explain it (and it is a brilliant spoof, best thing any Wayans has been involved in IMHO).