Interesting Cracked article about hollywood.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19549_5-old-timey-prejudices-that-still-show-up-in-every-movie.html

 

That was pretty good..thanks for posting.

 

Interesting AND depressing. Not surprising however.

 

good one.

 

Loved the article and the comments. Some of the flicks mentioned I had not heard before like Dying for Dolly,Hangman's Curse,and Human Traffic.

 

Finally someone other than people on this board puts this topic back in the spotlight (to an extent that is). Bravo. The writer could have gone further but I understand not choosing to write a 500 page document for a simple blog post.

 

how come this article doesn't mention Wesley Snipes?

For a while, he was doing good as the lead for the Blade Trilogy

that was a major franchise and everyone thought he was pretty badass in that role

He also had the movie 'One Night Stand,' which was a pretty racially diverse movie (his wife was Asian, but he ends up fucking the white wife of his friend). The focus wasn't on race relations in America either (really). In fact, the movie never alludes to the fact that a black man is having sex with white women.

And what about Danny Glover in Predator:2? He was pretty bad (he had a scope on his pistol....a SCOPE!) and didn't die halfway through the movie.

 

good point

 

i'm just sayin

I see where the man is coming from with the article, which is blazing, but at the same time it's a disservice to dismiss the accomplishments of other brothas.

how can you not mention Avery Brooks with Star Trek DS9. That show had like 8 or 9 seasons, which is no small feat for any person. He ran that shit like a boss.

 

hell yeah. he was smooth with his shit. dont forget when he played hawk on that other show

 

Unless one is planning on writing a text for a book or writing an extensive piece for a study, you can't expect anyone to mention EVERY example of the roles and movies he's focusing on. For example the guy could have provided dozens of more examples of films with a white man/black woman connection, but he didn't. He already made his point anyway. Besides he isn't likely getting paid to write that blog, has other things to do with his time and probably has a limited amout of space/words afforded to him in the first place.

None of it matters because he got the basics right. I have to say it felt like he took a peek inside my brain because of how he chose to go about making his case. Not only did he point out that there was far more IR with white men and black women than there are with black men and white women (something that is rarely discussed at all by the media), but he also 1)pointed out that when there is a BM/WW hookup going on it is typically in films that deal with the subject of race in the first place and 2)that Eve Mendes has been used as the go-to gal when Hollywood falls back to its cold feet tendencies.

 

But what does Deep Space Nine have to do with movies? Clearly the focus was primarily, if not exclusively, on films. Besides DS9 (which lasted 7 seasons) was the most ensemble-based of all Star Trek shows even if Brooks' name was the first listed amongst the cast. The show did not revolve around Sisko the way previous shows did for Kirk and Picard. Not that I'm complaining. DS9 was superior anyway.