How about this for a movie idea

Discussion in 'In the Media' started by JamalSpunky, Sep 17, 2008.

  1. JamalSpunky

    JamalSpunky Well-Known Member

    A young white girl (some say she also had native American heritage) born poor in late 19th century America. Her white mother eventually marries a black man and has children with them. The white girl is assumed to be black (half-black) as well because people think her stepdad is her father and that she is light-skinned like her siblings.

    Moving on later in life this woman meets her would-be husband at a NY Yankees game. He is a black businessman and older and he woos her, including buying all sorts of fancy things for her (when he takes her to a jewelry shop to buy her one of the best diamonds in the place for an engagement ring just imagine the scene that must have been of a black guy doing that). He eventually buys a Negro League baseball team and lets her take part of the business. She is a natural and in ways ends up being the brains behind the running of the team. She is seen as owner of the team along with her husband and is very hands on. Though not drop-dead gorgeous she is known to flirt with the young, handsome players on the team making her husband a bit jealous at times (there were rumors that she may have had affairs with a player or two but historians have claimed those rumors are not substantiated and that they likely didn’t happen). Nonetheless her relationship with her husband is strong and they are running one of the best teams in the Negro Leagues. Meanwhile most folks assume she is a very light ski black women (including the black press and many of the people working for her and her husband) and she and her husband don’t counter this perception because its easier for society to accept. It would be years later before people knew of her race. This woman is also a champion of civil rights, putting together boycott of stores in Harlem in the 40s and being a participant and financial supporter of the 60s Civil Rights Movement. Anyway in 2007 this woman, already dead, became the first woman ever inducted into the major League Baseball Hall of Fame.

    Does that sound like potentially great material for a movie or what? So many wonderful elements are there including her being a pioneer. Racism, sexism, sports are all covered. The passing of decades and the coming of change. America's pasttime. Etc, etc, etc. When news of her being voted in the Hall of Fame and slew of stories by the press came out to educate people about who this woman was (her name is Effa Manley), I thought there was a chance that studios would rush to put together a script for this lady. But I knew one huge problem was that she was a white woman not only romantically involved with a black male (husband) but she also lived within the black community and flirted with a lot of black men. That would give Hollywood pause I feared. If she had been involved with white men and her husband owned a Major League Baseball team studios would have fought over the rights. If the woman was indeed black then the black press would have been all over the story and championing a movie once her induction took place. At the very least the Lifetime Network would have greenlit a movie based upon her life. But here we are and no one has shown any interest in telling Manley’s life as a film. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effa_Manley


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  2. borisdiaw

    borisdiaw New Member

    Here's my pitch--an IR erotic fantasy film

    a world turned upside down, set in the south during the 1850s, where africans are the superior and dominant race, and white people are slaves from europe/scandinavia.

    white men get beat up and whipped by day, and the pale white women gets raped at night by their black masters. sometimes gangbanged while the white males watch helplessly.

    (at least this is an IR porn movie that i would watch :) )
     
  3. Xerxes

    Xerxes New Member

  4. Soulthinker

    Soulthinker Well-Known Member

    JS, that would be a great subject for a movie. I would love to read that book.
     

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