I should kill you for posting that video.. :smt078 I kept waiting and waiting thinkin riley was about to come in snickering...:smt012
As for A and B list Black actresses Tyler Perry has fit the bill not because he has brought them work but,the roles are considered to be positive not negative.
It's up to the studios to make black action movies like the ones that you mention since they have the money and it's ironic that Tyler Perry is the one that can make them because he has his own movie company. As for the poor little black woman movies TP makes, well look at his audience . . .
lol Oprah or Tyler could definitely finance big budget movie. I just cant remember the last time blacks were featured heavily, in those type of movies. Unless you count that piece of shit District 9.
Because most people who watch BET are dumb. Fam the minute they got rid of Teen Summit and the News I was done with that shit channel. Haven't seen it in years.
These films are made for black people with women as the targeted demographic, which is perfectly fine in my view. During the 1970s, the formula was inverted with the overwhelming majority of black films (e.g. Shaft, Superfly, etc.) being made with the male audience in mind. In America, the medium does not challenge the imagination as much as literature because the expense of film production places a greater burden on studios and filmmakers to churn out something profitable. Furthermore, white men don't generally exist on the same level of black men in terms of athletic achievement, so the superhero or action film functions as a type of compensation through fantasy. In real life, there is no Rocky or Batman so the film medium intervenes to compensate for any feelings of physical inadequacy. --- And unless you've caught an advanced screening, you should probably remain silent about the film's content. You're not qualified to say if a film, book or anything is anti-_______ without direct experience with it.
My buddy works at BET and for the life of me I simply can't understand why they don't put out quality programming. Its not for a lack of money... ...I wish I could figure it out.
they have Ed gordon on sundays...so Im gonna get on their site and see what they have and try not to get sick.
that is a bunch of bullshit. the writers are not using their imagination. the only one was wesley snipes for the movie Blade. damn Spawn was the shit but it was written by a whiteman. we git to pick up our game. the 90's was getting good with it like the Wood, Love jones and Brothers ( I believe that was the name) or what was it when Taye diggs was a writer and he wrote about his friends just before a wedding and got his ass whipped by morris chestnutt. those were intelligent black movies that didnt throw the bros under the bus
I think it was 'The Best Man.' Blade was good too..forgot about that, even if there were only 2 black people in the film.
Creative black movies don't win oscars. We will continue to see "Hustle and Flows" and racially degrading movies like "Monster Ball".
....But it was limited in scope and not very thorough. Tavis Smiley was ok but Ed Gordon was weak. He didn't run his show. His guest did. A lot of the content was on point though.
Death at a Funeral was different than I expected. The family was well off, with doctors and authors, and stuff like that. But yeah, most of the black films that come out follow that same thread of films you mentioned. Would be nice for a change up, once in a while.
