Always for Pleasure (1978) on Netflix
NR197858mDocumentaryMusic
Jazz funerals, second-line parades, St. Patrick's Day and Mardi Gras fill New Orleans streets. The Wild Tchoupitoulas sew Indian costumes to honor Native Americans who helped enslaved people.
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Plot summary
A jazz funeral opens the film, its music starting slow and turning joyful. At Frankie and Johnny's, a lesson follows in how to eat crayfish. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated out on the streets, because New Orleans keeps its holidays in public. The run-up to Mardi Gras reaches back to slavery: enslaved people were given Sundays to gather and ready themselves for the one holiday they were allowed to keep. The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a Mardi Gras Indian society, sew costumes in thanks for help Native Americans once gave enslaved people, and the group sings and parades through the carnival. Second-line parades and the cooking of red beans and rice are among the traditions filmed in New Orleans in 1977.
Cast
- Kid Thomas Valentineas Self - Band Leader, Trumpet Player
- Blue Lu Barkeras Self('Blue Lu' Barker)
- Professor Longhairas Self
- Art Nevilleas Self(The Neville Brothers)
- Kid Thomasas Self('Kid Thomas' Valentine)
- Amos Landryas Self
- George Landryas Self('Chief Jolly' Landry)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Always for Pleasure (1978)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Always for Pleasure subtitles a Creole song as "Hey Legba", although its title phrase is actually "Eh là-bas", a formerly common Louisiana Creole greeting roughly meaning "Hey you over there". Some scholars, such as Henry Louis Gates, believe "Eh La Bas" is a covert reference to Legba.
