However, can I just ask, when are POC allowed to act in films without it being considered woke?
If you're talking about historical film, well, you have lots of possible stories in Africa. I would love to see stories that happen in pre-colonial Africa.
Actually, it's interesting living as we live in a woke era, there's
not a single movie or series set in pre-colonial Africa. That's food for thoughts. It seems to me that Blacks only matter when they're a mean to demonize whites. In my opinion, the core foundation of Wokeness is not pro-Black or pro-minorities, but anti-white.
Movies in XIXth and XXth century, for example, you could set stories in black communities. There's lot of stories that can be told about those communities and people, and drama and relationships, and people working and loving, beyond the
oh evil racist whites!. Again, I can't remember a single movie or series set there which is not about "
evil whites", if it doesn't demonize whites, Hollywood is not interested.
Modern day, you can use Black characters, but make them feel real. I see Hollywood, and Black characters talk and behave as middle class east coast whites, while whites talk and behave as psychopaths or cucks. It seems that the main goal is to demonize whites.
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NotoriousRio (12927)
4 years ago
A movie about Shaka Zulu would be something I'd love to see, I still have fond memories of the 80's TV Mini series.
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kukuxu (5409)
4 years ago
I'd love to see movies using mythological folklore elements. Something similar to what China does with Mythological Ancient China, or Europe with middle age fantasy stories.
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Stratego (31081)
4 years ago
Why hasn't Disney done an adaptation of an African fairy tale yet? Anansi is probably one of the more well-known mythological creatures. Instead they take a European fairy tale like The Princess and the Frog and throw in a bunch of non-white characters. Why???
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Furienna (3375)
4 years ago
That's a good point though, that so few movies and TV shows are made about pre-colonial Africa.
It must be that the producers don't think that that such stories are marketable enough.
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kukuxu (5409)
4 years ago
On the contrary, I think it would be very marketable.
I think the main reason is ideological: it would be extremely difficult to include white guys being the official villains, and that's a deal-breaker. C'mon, even in the Aladdin remake they included one Danish white guy as a villain, and that was a One Thousand and One Nights story!
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Furienna (3375)
4 years ago
Now, I believe that the producers think that stories about Africans would only attract niche audiences. That is why you don't see much of them in mainstream Western media.
Unlike you, I don't believe that they are as nefarious as that. But sure, they want to make money and do lip service to the popular ideology of today.
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kukuxu (5409)
4 years ago
I don't know. Those movies or series wouldn't be extremely expensive. And I'd be something new, which is perfect when everybody had a bit too much of superhero movies.
I understand that they don't want to throw $200 million out of the blue in a big production. However, you could make a show with $2-3 million per episode maximum (Vikings was $4 million). It's not like they couldn't start cheap to see how it works...
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Furienna (3375)
4 years ago
Sure. But it won't happen until someone pitches the idea in a way, that makes it sound profitable to a producer.
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NotoriousRio (12927)
4 years ago
Yes, but it takes just one hit movie to change all that, then they'd all jump on the bandwagon. But I honestly don't think Hollywood have the inclination for it, and these days sales in China mean so much more to them.
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