DeltaBrat...I totally agree. Now I am the FIRST one to say that sometimes we shouldn't look so deep into things, just see it for what it is and that's entertainment. I don't know, for some reason, I have no desire to see this movie. I'm not sure whether it's because lately I have been witness to so many racist/"superior" attitudes...but I just feel like this movie is perpetuating the stereotype of the "ghetto-fabulous" black person. Some of my friends went to see the movie because they thought it would be cute, and even though they said it was okay, they also said that there weren't any positive images of black people. I won't spend my money to go see something like that...not to say I won't watch it when it comes to cable!
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Originally posted by DELTABRAT
I was honestly disturbed by this movie. I met a few of my Sands at a restaurant for breakfast and this white guy said he saw it and that it was very good. I decided to roll with them though I didn't have a desire to see it. I ust thought, without getting all political, that there could have been ONE Black person in the film who wasn't fighting, smoking weed, or whatever else.
The white lawyer who was trying to steal the English client could have EASILY been a Black, conservative, stick up his azz kind of brothah. Just to get a different, view of Black folks. I felt that the dichotomoy between the whites and Blacks was way over the top and the same thing could have been done without the mammy scenes, etc.
Levy, the fight scene (Tae Bo) and the Englich lady were the funniest. I just get all bent out of shape when I see a theater full of white folks who laugh at overtly racist "comedy" and it's passed off as "entertainment" so it's okay.
I don't know.
The producer of the ovie is also a professor at UCLA's film school and a KNOWN racist so, that doesn't help much either I guess.
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