just wondering...
Or, maybe the film makers believe in segregation...
I find it refreshing, even though negro culture has already influenced pop music for many years before.
Gott ist tot.
Nietzsche
ya not all movies need to have other races to make it a good movie.
I KNOW 2 things that are clear.I'm a great sinner,Christ is a great Savior.
Would you have felt better if they had a token black in their small rural white midwestern town?
Hey, the good news is in the remake they got some black folks working in the kitchen feeding the white folks.
Feel better?
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Are you talking about Kenny Loggins who wrote and recorded the song "Footloose" I had never heard that he was gay. I knew he had been married and had children but i do know that doenst mean someone is not gay. I did a search just now and I only found a couple of places where the question was asked. The following answer was given by one.
He has been married to Julia Cooper and Eva Ein, both of which are women. So unless he's hiding it quite well, nope
I also read he has 5 children among the 2 wives and in another place it said there is no record of him being gay. I just never had heard that all of these years of listening to his music and watching his performances so I just wondered if that is what you meant and where the info came from.
Did you have a thing with Kenny Loggins yourself? If not how do you know he's gay, considering he's been married to two women and there are no rumors questioning his heterosexuality.
Rather than segregation maybe the film makers believe in reality, like the reality that small, rural towns like the one in question are almost exclusively white.
Agree with the above poster. I grew up in a very small, rural town and my entire school years, from first grade all the way up until graduation, there was not one single black person that went to my school...no other race at all, strictly white. Some small towns are like that, so I don't think it was segregation by any means.
shareI think film-makers were not that hot in reaching out for an inclusive audience in those days.
Its that man again!!
Didn't the movie take place in Utah? Where are the non-white people in Utah?
shareWell, there was the song 'Let's hear it for the boy' by Deniece Williams (who's Black) which was playing in one scene, so OP, yes, there is just one single non-White person in this movie (albeit faceless) ;)
shareit's stupid questions like this that make me long for the good 'ol NON PC days of the 70's and 80's. Political correctness has truly run amok in this day and age.
I watch this movie everytime I catch it on tv flipping through the channels and as long as have watched it I never saw any people of color in it. A couple of days ago I think I noticed one black person(man) in a scene at church or when they had that town hall meeting.
shareI am not in a rural area and in grade school we had only 2 or 3 African Americans in our entire grade school. In some areas, it is just a reality.
shareAgreed, if there were enough Blacks/people of color in the town I doubt they would even get away with not letting people dance. So Puritanical!
shareParticularly in Utah, where this movie was filmed in 1983(south of Salt Lake City, but north of Provo, Utah).
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Another idiot trying to stir up racial arguments. And I'd be surprised if the OP is not white himself.
Given the time and town being portrayed in the movie it is not all that weird that there are no minorities around. That doesn't mean anyone was into segregation, it was just the demographics of the area they lived in.
I grew up in a town from age 0-14 (1978-1992) where there were probably ten kids in the entire school from elementary through junior high who were not white. And i am not exaggerating. Until i was 14 i had, in my whole life, only ever met maybe one black person and two Hispanic people outside of my best friend whose family was from Mexico. And this was in Southern California!!
My family then moved to a city where there were more Hispanics and blacks than there were whites. So...I guess the first town I lived in "believed in segregation"? Ooookay.
"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."
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maybe the film makers have been to places like the one depicted in the movie
yes, there really are places like that...still...29 years later
Who cares about stairs? The main thing is ice cream.
Even though there really are places without Blacks, just as there are places with Caucasians, is fine.
There do not appear to be anyone one who is also Asian, or Latino. Why aren't you complaining about that?
... Why aren't you complaining about that?Where exactly and in what post did you read anything about a "complaint"?