What's your opinion on this movie's use of black face? I'm sort of on the fence if it was racist or not, so I'd rather want to hear a person's thoughts on the group from people that they were actually satirizing.
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I'm black and I will say that it was funny as fvck. Honestly I saw more ignorance when Martin Lawrence played the White character on his television show.
I get more offended with roles we do have. In so many films we are either ghetto or angry, those are the roles that offend me. Tara from True Blood or any one of the females on the tv show called the Game stand out for me.
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Most of Denzel Washington's roles seem to be quite mainstream. And Will Smith is very good at straddling the stereotypes between "hip black man" and "normal white guy." Lawrence Fishburn and Morgan Freeman have a gravitas few can match.
shareDid the plot of "White Chicks" also offend you or was that OK to do?
This is pretty much what my black girlfriend said about the characters, "white people seem to get more offended over this type of stuff than any black person I know."
shareAll I see is people getting offended over everything. It is entertainment...period. If you don't like it then don't watch it and that's it. People are never gonna be happy with the way characters are portrayed, because instead of just enjoying a movie, we are constantly nitpicking at the things we dislike. And I have no issue with a white man playing black or vice versa, as long as it is not condescending. It is called acting after all, right?
shareAll I see is people getting offended over everything. It is entertainment...period. If you don't like it then don't watch it and that's it.
I'm black and this did not offend me
I would be offended if this was a serious film, but it is a comedy so i view it as such...
I didn't find it offensive. The joke was not "black people". The joke was "This method actor takes it up to 11 and is insane and that's what's funny about this."
Even in-universe, a black actor explains how offensive the blackface and behavior was.
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I posted something similar on another thread on this board, and I'll post it here as well. Now I'll start by saying that I'm not black, so I'm not going to tell you how to feel about the matter, only that I'm explaining what the use of black face in the movie actually meant.
The movie's use of black face was not racist, at least not in its intent. RDJ is not playing a black character, he's playing an Australian guy playing a black character. It's meant to be satirical, and it has a go at racism and whitewashing, because they would rather cast a white guy to be black than cast a black guy. It also mocks intense method acting. It's supposed to highlight how absurd the situation is.
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Read a lot of the replies and figured this
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