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I don't know y'all. I was also like WTF when I saw Danny Glover.
I recently saw Butterfly Effect and was talking to my SO who said that white folks always want to look into their past and see what happened to explain why their lives may be screwed up. Not all white people but he was basically saying that Black folks don't get all psych-ish and just leave well enough alone. I love psych movies but I was wondering why Black folks never do them. His comments made me think that the reason why is that we aren't believable in those roles. Like "Black folks would never go back to their old neighborhood and confront their sexual abuser to go on with their lives" type deal. But I disagree. He then said that eclectic people or more academically inclined (I am in a PhD program and so therefore the whole gist of my life is to question $hit) are more likely to "relate" but not everyone.
I was disappointed. Why are all our movies about family reunions and cookouts and hair salons? I mean, sure these are staples in our communities but we have "issues" to. It almost comes off like "white people are so mentally "free" due to their lack of oppression that they have "time" to do the psych-y thing but we got so much going on that we really ain't got time to be wondering why our childhoods were the way they were, etc. and how they may affect us as adults" We then thought of actors who could have easily played Ashton Kutcher (of all people) role. We could name like 10 AA actors who could have pulled that off easily.
I JUST saw an ad for a movie called "The Forgotten" with the red head chick from Hannibal (forgot her name...Julianne Moore) and I was like "I will see it, but again, why do they get the "thriller" type movies and we get this BS?" Are we not writing these scripts?
Okay, I'm done ranting. Long story short, probably will wait for DVD...which is the week it comes out if you live in Compton.
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