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Originally posted by DELTABRAT
This really pisses me off.
I have a sands who is a writer. MTV is currently trying to get her to re-adapt a story she had written that was basically a drumlime-type story but with BGLOs. They said it looked like she was writing a movie for her and her "friends" and that no one would see it except "us."
Mind you some white guy is simultaneously shopping a story about a white guy who is "pledging" a BGLO. Ugh...
They said that the sistah in the move should have some shite friends, maybe a white roommate, perhaps the main character could be white and that the Black female could just be the white girls friend who happens to be in a Black Sorority. Mind you they said they wanted a movie that showcased stepping, and all that Black sororities are about. Her focus was basically community service (of course) and the way that influences the art of stepping and some other artsy-fartsy relation to that and sisterhood and etc., etc. (she's real artsy-fartsy).
My point is, how is the white chick (read: not Black) going to star in a move in which the entire cast is Black?
I am sick and tired of these movie execs acting like our story isn't worthy. Our story wouldn't make money. Our story has to have white folks in it or it's not real. Why can't our story just be our story, without the usual over-romanced storyline (Brown Sugar, etc.) While I am thankful for the positive portrayal that is offeered in these flicks...What's worse is when you have Black writers telling our story then it's not good enough, but when white folks do...or if it has enough white folks in it...then it's okay.
Could there not have beena sistah playing the lead role in this movie?
Sorry, I saw the trailer for the movie last night and almost barfed on myself. Jessica Alba, give me a fu__ing break...she's the friggin' new flavor and "they" are trying to blow her up. Period point blank. Good for her...otherwise, boo...just BOOOOOO!!!!!
Bille Woodruff is Black as is ALonzo Brown...I am unsure about Kim Watson. I bet you a miliion dollars (I am mad I said that) that the lead was a Black girl...I bet!!!
We are in a bind here because based on the ethnicity of the writers and director, and it's his directorial debut, one wants to support, but it's not okay white people...it's not.
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Yeah, I agree with you--that really SUCKS!
And as soon as I saw the trailer, I thought :
1.) This movie looks like a bunch of others I've seen before (ie. Save the Last Dance, Flashdance, etc.).
2.) WHY oh WHYYYYY did the lead character have to be Jessica Alba, a Latina? Don't get me wrong, Latinas are my peeps, but this is--other than Jessica--a "Black" movie with an all-Black cast.
So, what was the reason of putting her in the spotlight? I think it was b/c of the fact that someone seems to think that without her (or someone else of another persusuasion other than African American playing the lead role), it would basically be an all-Black (i.e 'just another 'ole Black') movie. Newsflash--that's what it is anyway--the idea is NOT original... I also think that the directors purposefully chose a Latina as the lead to cash in on the whole J.Lo/ Latina Sensation thing...
It's really sad b/c there are many, many legitimate and interesting stories out there to be told, esp. by "our people", movies to be made, that never see the light of day...
