What? You mean he's a movie maker who is also a business man.
Speaking as a white person, I don't need to hear more about my own racial experience. I'd like to watch some movies about people of color (ahem, aliens), from the perspective of that group, without injecting a random white (erm, human) character to explain everything to me. Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
Why make a movie about clashing ethnicities ...if it at its heart its going to be exactly like the other 4 special effects orgies made this year?
If you want to make a shallow SFX movie, go right ahead. That's easy to do and it won't invite this type of criticism if the film is in mindless innature.
But when you blatantly add racial allusions and cultural undertones into the mix, you are pushing your film into another paradigm. There is now an addedthought process and message attached to the viewing of your work.
Terminator, Blade Runner, The Matrix...those films have underlying allusions as well but they are actually thought provoking and refreshing.
Too many of these sci-fi movies with race at the heart have the exact same plot line, to the point where it gets to be exasperating to whites and aggravatingto "non-whites".
All of these movies are allusions to white-wrong doing in the past (displays of white guilt), and they have the white main character turn on his own people,join the other group and become their savior in rebellion. You don't see the trend?
Its not jut about the vacuous and stereotypical display of other cultures but it's also about the redundant and oversimplified tales of the white manspreading malice across the galaxy. You don't get tired of that as a white person?
They make a movie titled " The Last Samurai " and the last samurai is a white man. Before he leads his Samurai sidekick into battle against his fellow white menand their respective Japanese stooges, he reminds them of the Battle of Thermopylae..they had to drag Thermopylae into a Samurai movie..seriously?
At the end of the movie's most climactic scene, every single Japanese samurai is brutally slain but the powerful white samurai somehow emerges alive...Howmuch more ridiculous can a movie get? There are literally thousands of stoylines that can be made about the Samurai experience...Go ahead and put a white actoras the lead role, go ahead and have a sappy ending...but have some originality and integrity at the very least.
District 9 was the exact same thing except it was even more demeaning to the African image. There wasn't even one African character of note in that entirefilm. All of them were ignorant, blood thirsty savages and prostitutes. In a film obviously based around the brutal and unjust history of South Africanapartheid, they didn't even have the decency to include 1 redeeming scenes for Black Africans. It doesn't get much more disgusting than that.
If a Native American made the film, the film would have been made differently. There would be no white savior because white saviors are afabrication.
that's BS
Why would it be locked?
Originally Posted by Nike Star Jay
