Love the story, love the actors and I think Lemmons (Eve's Bayou) is a great, great director but can't and WILL NOT support anything with Cedric the Entertainer who said a line (Rosa Parks didnt do nothing but sit her black as* down)-I will not suport any film with him in it.
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He played a character that said that. Funny, some people will go see De Niro and Pacino films until the cows come home and they have dropped the "N" bomb more times than I can imagine. People and the soap boxes they chose.
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If I had that line in a movie I would tell the writers I couldn't say it.
Why? Is it so completely out of the realm of possibility for a black man to say this when hanging out talking with other black men?
I'm sure that is why the writers put it in there. Because it IS something that is thought, at least in some black circles. Interesting that people want to censor.
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I was just asking why someone would refuse to say something that would be plausible for their character to say. Actors want to be true to the character they would be playing, even if it is something they would never say themselves and find personally repugnant.
If Carroll O'Connnor had felt this way, we never would have had "All In The Family" as he was not like Archie Bunker at all. But by saying these bigoted things as Archie Bunker, he got dialogues going, because real people DID feel the way Archie did, and it was better to have it out in the open. I'm sure that was the writer's point behind the Rosa Parks line, and why Cedric went along with it even though (I assume)he does not share that opinion.
I'd hope audiences would be smart enough to know that an actor does not necessarily endorse everything their character says/does. Then again, given the OP that someone will boycott THIS movie because of what Cedric's character said in another movie, I guess I'm overestimating at least some part of the audience.
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Unfortunately, as this thread shows, it is a realistic worry. Thanks for the discussion.
shareYour loss, Talk To Me is a great film.
shareThis Film is too important to miss, on many levels. Keep Cedric in your mind though. He was the Comedian at a White house function last year. He was brought in by Condalezza Rice, I found it interesting because of his comment in "Barbershop". I do not think he has any social integrity, therefore you can boycaott him Mentally. This movie is only playing in 4 theaters in Chicago. A city with Millions of people. A woman direstor has never won an Academy Award---I think. PEOPLE need to SEE this MOVIE---Whether you like Uncle Cedric or not.
shareCedric's part is so small I forgot he was in it until I read this thread . He's really not significant to the story at all.
shareIgnorance. That is all you are showing when you can't seperate a character from a film, from a real human being.
Have you ever seen the movie Be Cool when Cedric's character gives a speech about the wonderful things black people have done for this country? No you didn't because apparently you believe that whatever a person does or say in a movie is real, well *beep* there are a lot of racist movies stars out there.
Especially in those Mafia movies. If that's true then why is DeNiro who has said *beep* on numerous occasions married to a black woman.
I need to stop because your stupidity is baffling my mind, and I don't want to be apart of it.
ingorance is right
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Cedric said that IN A MOVIE, while IN CHARACTER.
Give me a break.
and he's only in the movie for 5 minutes TOPS.
You have that right, but his part is small (I didn't even realize he was in it) and you are doing a great disservice to yourself for not seeing this beautiful, positive story that will make you feel good.
share"Boycotter" have you EVER seen or heard of Paul Mooney? The brilliant comedian/thinker/world citizen/genius has said more controversial things in his act (even small snippets like "Chappelle Show") than any Barbershop character.
Cedric's character in Barbershop was the "old bombastic coot/sage" who says all the awful terrible things that people shouldn't say just to get a reaction out of the room. The poor screenwriter wrote a hilarious, smartly-drawn old fart in what could have been a throw-away comedy (whatever you think of B'shop - the first one was fun).
Everybody has that prankster or loveable curmudgeon uncle that says all kind of awful things to get their goat. But it was his/her job to jibe us a bit, toughen our skin and prep us for the harsher more, caustic world.
Jesse Jackson (for whom I usually have respect), et.al. takes this kind of thing out of context instead of seeing it as part of the perspective of life's characters. Do you want ONLY African Americans who act one way (then you only have 1 black character per show), gay characters who are flouncy & queenie, or Latinos who enact only one aspect of Latin Culture? What's the point of diversifying the entertainment field at all?
Booyah to Cedric's kooky character (and the fact that he performed at the White House - well at least they had a BLACK man perform to remind Bush there are people more brown than his pet Condoleeza); sometimes a fictional character, a ripe comic, a ribald joke is more pointed & sharp & REAL than we like. But those characters, comedians & jokes that raise hackles -- provoke discourse & conversation. Or simply remind of us REALNESS.
Sorry for the long post, but that kind of reactionary crap makes me CRAZY: Boycott something MEANINGFUL that will make SERIOUS CHANGE.
OBAMA, please God, 2008 - 2016!!!!!!!!
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