I have not see anyone else post about this yet so i feel it is my duty to mention. I believe that Marky Mark uses the term 'House N!gger' at one point. This is outrageous, i as a white man am very offended. Can he get away with it because he has two black 'brothers'? I thought that the director did a good job of not bringing the race issue up, but this was an inappropriate lapse in censorship!
shareThe race issue came up a lot in the movie, but in a good way. The major theme in the movie was that these guys could come together in a bond of brotherhood that was more important than the color of their skin.
Just a couple of examples of the race issue coming up: When Bobby and Jack meet Jerry's kids, they tell them they are Jerry's brothers and the girls say something to the effect of "you can't be his brothers, you're white". Also when the brothers confront Keenon. The conversations goes something like this: Keenon says he won't rat out his brother, to which Bobby says "These are my brothers".
Keenon: "He's my real brother"
Bobby: "These are my real brothers"
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shareok next black man i see i will call and i quote a 'house *beep* and see if they get offended.
shareok i did that and got punched in the face. this is proof that a white man can not say house n i gger without paying.
shareI'm surprised at how few people have realized you're a jokester or a troll.
sharewhy cant you watch the movie for what it is: four guys of different races adopted by a white woman that thought them brotherhood, loyalty and unity, and that love each other as "real brothers" (as wallbergh says in the movie), and not bring the race issue up.
Its just a movie. You shouldnt do things you see in movies stupid.
If one of his black brothers had said it, would you still consider it racism? Or would you consider it for what it was meant to be, a way to actually piss the guy off, to prove to him that maybe he was worth more than how Victor Sweet treated him, in hopes to get the guy on his side and to get answers as to why his mother was murdered for no reason.
I'm just surprised that you didn't also talk about the other stuff that they did that was just as bad as calling someone the N-word, like murdering people, almost setting people on fire, beating people, not calling 911 on someone with a bone sticking out of their leg. But I think all of that was used to portray their desperation in wanting to find out who murdered their mother and to portray the life that they lead at the hands of a really bad man.
Movies promote a LOT of bad things, but unless you are ready for nothing but perfect PC movies that are rated G, then I think you've got to realize that bad *beep* is going to happen in movies. If you can distinguish between the fact that it is fake and that you shouldn't live that way (like going out and just murdering whoever or being a complete dick to someone or being a racist or bigot) then I think you'll be an okay individual.
We all would have liked to see that. It was a movie, and you are not Marky Mark. He can probably get away with a lot of things you can't. Jackass. How nice of you to be offended as a white person, when no one else cares. Why don't you go cry about it.
"You should have a degree in being wrong...all the time!" ~ Shawn Spencer
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If you really did that, you are a moron. His character could get away with it probably because he had two black brothers. But it is a double standard. White people can't call black people *beep* without them being offended and wanting to beat the white person's ass.
But a black man can call a white person a cracker and it is supposed to be considered ok and the white person should just take it.
I understand that white people oppressed black people for several years but to have this double standard is ridiculous. If racism is something that is wanted to be stopped it needs to stop from all avenues.
But in regards to the movie, the character saying it didn't really offend me.
Several hundred years more like. It's clear why whites can be called cracker without anyone really being offended, because it doesn't really offend. I mean maybe it offends that ur being called a name but the actual word doesn't have any deep rooted offence associated with it. White people used *beep* to oppress black people for hundreds of years, to make them feel less and keep them down, therefore the entire white race have in theory lost the right to use it anymore. In saying that, I don't feel anyone should, but there are contexts where is would be acceptable without offence being taken, this line in the movie being an example, he is clearly closely associated with the black culture and his brothers are black, so no one is gonna think him racist, and the term he used was to make a point, he wasnt calling him a *beep* Nowadays it is becoming more acceptable amongst all races tho, just go on Xbox live and u will see, white people call each other *beep* nowadays.
shareAre you as big of a bad ass as Bobby Mercer? No, I'd shut the *beep* up.
shareYou've never heard the n word in a movie before?
All walls are great if the roof doesn't fall.
Marky Mark is a wigger anyway. He thinks cause he has some "black street cred" that he could go around using words like that.
Have you ever came across someone you shouldn't have f-cked with thats me (Gran Torino)
I only saw this once. I don't remember that line/scene but it's problably 1 of the many reasons I did'nt like this movie.
shareoh grow up. thats harmless.
*but we have to get racism out of the movies!*
well why dont we give human rights to gay whales while we are at it.
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