i dont oppose your overall sentiment, but your examples.....CMON MANNNN!
straight outta compton-based on the upcoming of a prolific rap group which is still relevant decades later.
So? My point is they made a movie about a group people cared about. Dreamgirls made $100 million back in 2006. On the other hand Sparkle only made $24 mill, but only cost $14 mill to make. SOC is just the most recent example and just hits home how general audiences aren't against paying to see movies about black characters.
equalizer-cmonnn dude....as far as hollywood is concerned, denzel is white;
I don't think that's it. I think he came up at just the right time when Hollywood needed to pick someone to be their black leading man and he was a good actor that everybody liked. Throughout the 90s he co-starred with a lot of major white stars like Gene Hackman and Julia Roberts.
Even Will Smith, who only landed ID4 because the director fought to cast him, was paired up with Tommy Lee Jones and Gene Hackman before getting to be the lead in bigger budget movies.
Hollywood simply doesn't do this anymore. Those co-star roles that could be used to launch the next Will Smith or Denzel Washington are going exclusively to white actors. And when someone like JJ Abrams casts a black actor in his Star Wars movie people call it PC/Affirmative Action. It's probably because there's so many sequels/remakes/adaptions where it's all white casting by default.
django-umm, thank q tarentino. j fox was cool in it but tbh, he's almost in denzel and big willy's class
Again, to my point, Tarantino is one of the few filmmakers I can think of who routinely includes non-white characters in his films and usually writers really interesting female characters that aren't just arm candy. That is honestly more than I can say for Scorsese and Woody Allen (save for the female roles). Even the minority and female characters in Nolan's films tend to be boring.
I just think it's painfully obvious that there's money to be made in producing more films that aren't always centered around a white dude and there's plenty of evidence that supports it.
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