24: new star is black no Jack Bauer: some flack people won't watch it without Kiefer

Discussion in 'In the Media' started by JUANMACKER, Jan 25, 2016.

  1. JUANMACKER

    JUANMACKER Active Member

  2. samson1701

    samson1701 Well-Known Member

    I'll watch it. At least give it a chance. I want brothas to keep getting leading man roles that don't hinge on him being black. The only way that happens is if the ratings are there. The more we watch the better.

    Same thing with Rosewood.
     
  3. Gorath

    Gorath Well-Known Member

    I think that 24 was a show about the CTU more than Jack Bauer. Jack Bauer was an active and more visible cog in a big machine. A machine that has many operatives that are specialists in many fields in the service to the country. Now I think it is time for others to step in. I recall watching the film The Seige. Densely Washington's character could have been portrayed by a white actor. His performance as Anthony Hubbard was excellent and realistic. So we're the rest of the cast that included Annette Benning, Bruce Willis and Tony Shalhoub.

    I think if viewers were more interested in the activities of the CTU, any operative would be supported regardless of race. But Keifer Sutherland was the star of the show and the majority audience was white.

    The film Rosewood had an inaccuracy because there was no black soldier fighting in the film. The KKK showed up and both sides lost people in the massacre. The only survivors of Rosewood were children and they had no idea of how or why it started in the first place
    John Singleton stated that if he made a docudrama, no one would see the film.
     
  4. samson1701

    samson1701 Well-Known Member

    My bad. I should have been more specific. I was talking about the new TV show, "Rosewood' on Fox. It stars Morris Chestnut as a crime solving pathologist. It started out rocky, but it's gotten to be a pretty good light hearted crime show in the vien of Bones or Castle.

    Everything else you said is right on, though.
     
  5. andreboba

    andreboba Well-Known Member

    Black folk watch more television hours than any other ethnic group, on average.

    '24' IMO indirectly got Barack Obama elected.lol

    Why the hell wouldn't I watch it???

    I still believe '24' had a unique story telling narrative that drove the show more than just its characters.

    Chloe was the real star of that show anyway.
    [​IMG]
     
  6. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    Been saying that for years lol
    Rip President Palmer
     
  7. MrT

    MrT Member

    Chloe was awesome...But Jack was 24!
     
  8. samson1701

    samson1701 Well-Known Member

    I used to get the verbal beat down about this all the time. But, Chloe was annoying as hell to me. My 24 clique wasn't trying to hear that. ...lol
     
  9. Thump

    Thump Well-Known Member

    I think Morgan Freeman in the movie Deep Impact also contributed to getting Obama elected.
     
  10. BrianJ

    BrianJ New Member

    LOL

    I thought it was just me! lol I hate her whiny character. Painful.

    The actor who plays her was on Craig Ferguson some time back and she seems funny as hell and nothing like the charter she plays.
     
  11. goodlove

    goodlove New Member

    Yeah. Im with you guys on that
     
  12. Gorath

    Gorath Well-Known Member

    No, I don't think so. Morgan Freeman showed the world how a black president would act in times of major crises. Not in getting Obama elected.
     
  13. Thump

    Thump Well-Known Member

    As far as I remember, Deep Impact was the first time A black man had been cast as the duly elected president on film.

    In my opinion, seeing a black man in that roll may have helped to open up the idea in the general public's mind about a black commander-in-chief.
     
  14. andreboba

    andreboba Well-Known Member


    Both portrayals helped open up the American psyche to the idea of a BM as POTUS.
     
  15. Ches

    Ches Well-Known Member

    What are flack people? :smt102:cool:
     
  16. samson1701

    samson1701 Well-Known Member

    Yeah, she is cool as hell. She actually does stand up and she's not bad. Not outrageously funny, but worth checking out.
     

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