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Interracial couple is a taboo in 2005?


According to trivia... isn't it ironic that this movie is about true love conquers all but then is afraid of interracial couple being a taboo????

Show me the holes!

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That bothered me too

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This is a factory-made, producer/studio-fueled, by-the-numbers Rom-Com.

That being said, what do you expect?

Despite a strong lead in Will Smith, this is a regurgitated film we have all seen millions of times. This is anything but reality, and I assure you producers have no idea what people are like in actual life, or what is reality in general.

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Really sad to think that a fair proportion of the US market supposedly felt that way in 2005. I wonder whether things have changed all that much.🐭

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I mean Will Smith did star opposite of Margot Robbie in "Focus" as a romantic interest

She is a caucasian female. That is some progress. What I don't understand is how in 1994 they did "The Bodyguard" with Kevin Cosner and Whitney Houston and it ended up being a hit yet they couldn't put an interracial couple in Hitch?

I don't think audiences would have been THAT flabbergasted

This is the end

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I don't think audiences would have been THAT flabbergasted
Yes, I agree.🐭

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I mean Will Smith did star opposite of Margot Robbie in "Focus" as a romantic interest

She is a caucasian female. That is some progress.


Yeah, but apparently, Will Smith had to lobby the studio to allow her to co-star. They wanted an African American opposite for him in that movie.

I don't think audiences would have been THAT flabbergasted


You'd be surprised. Interracial couples can be victims of prejudice as well, maybe even on par with gay/lesbian couples and those of different religions.

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No, that's just how a IMDB writer decided to interpret the scenario.

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Because "we can have their women but we Will never give them our women".

Bambi + Lewis Skolnick = Disney's Peter Parker

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It still seems taboo even in 2016...especially if it deals with a White Woman being paired with a NON White Man ESPECIALLY a Black Man. What gets me is that, White Men being paired with NON White Women(Which is more common)never really seems to get much hate and controversy. It's when it's a White Woman, that all HELL breaks loose.

Will was paired with Margot Robbie in "FOCUS" and racist when absolutely apesh!t. Just like the Cheerios Commercial, all you heard were people screaming "White Genocide" or this is an agenda to get White Women to mix with NON whites. Funny thing is, you don't hear it in reverse.

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I don’t remember anyone having issues with this when it came out.

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