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Originally posted by KnowledgeEternal:
I won't watch this until its on regular TV. John Singleton was talking about how he feels like slapping all these black film makers who keep making happy "black" films(ala Best Man, Soul Food, Love and Basketball) because those are not "real" movies. When he said that I was like WTF? There are Middle and upper class african americans you know. He's talking like through all his success he's been "keeping it real" in an apartment in Compton. Give me a break.
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That's rather interesting. I think that Mr. Singleton may have made that statement as a marketing ploy. Whites may have believed that with the downtrodden images of Blacks that they had an understanding of our experience. The new wave of films such as that of movies Love and Basketball, Love Jones, The Best Man, negate their previous "understandings". Singleton's calling these pictures a fascade puts an overcast on those films and makes himself appear as the authentic Black storyteller and filmmaker, thereby validating the downtrodden and outdated image of Blacks in America.
I just plain out think that its a marketing scheme for him. He really needs to know that he has not cornered the market on the Black experience. If he think that he has he needs to experience that mighty wake-up call! Black America is too diverse to be canned and sold. There's just too much diversity.
He's really being rather unfair to Black filmmakers overall when he makes statements that generalize the Black experience.