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All antagonists are white male.


Can anybody name a movie that was released in the past 3-5 years where the bad guy wasn't a white male? Just for fun let's see if we can find one.

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Racist much??

How many black guys are there??? People of color just don't get any roles --- good, bad, etc.

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daimposter, LOL. You sure are an idiot. They get tons of roles. Overrepresented even, considering the population. When you have no response, you use the racist tag... what a loser.

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Wow. Just wow. You are fascinating. Could I interest you in joining a psychological study? It's designed to see if people can legitimately be as stupid as you or if it is all an act to piss people off. I'm assuming you have no life either way so you are seriously perfect.

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Blah, blah... Look, moron didn't say anything. Looking at the shows you follow, I know you have the IQ of a stump. Goodbye, idiot.

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Plenty of movies in the past 5 years featured villains who weren't white males.

Django Unchained
Amazing Spiderman 2
Captain Philips
Thor The Dark World
No Good Deed
Kingsmen: The Secret Service
Skyfall
Dead Man Down
Rise Of The Planet of the Apes (David Oyelowo's character)
District 9
Lone Survivor

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Captain Phillips was based on a real story. Django Unchained?!? LOL

Btw, ironically, this movie sucks!! Hahaha...

http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/focus-a-star-vehicle-without-much-gas/

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What does being based on a true story have to do with anything? Movies based on true stories can still have villains.

And yes, Samuel L. Jackson (a black male) played one of the primary villains in Django Unchained.

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If you need to ask that question, you should go back to school.

Django Unchained wasn't about that particular villain - it was about the evil white villains and what they did to the hero.

Anyway, that movie is getting bad reviews so it deserves to be criticized in more than one way.

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Ha, what a blatant cop out. Is that really the best you can come up with? Anyway, though I suspect you're almost definitely a troll, I'm kindof enjoying this discussion, so here goes.

Django did feature a lot of white male antagonists, but the original post stated that ALL antagonists are white male. Not most, all. and Jackson's character was arguably the biggest antagonist in the whole movie, though DiCaprio's character was the owner of Camdieland, it was clear that Stephen was the mastermind behind the plantation, and the climactic showdown is between Django and Stephen. Sorry, but you're just wrong.

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Bob or whatever your name is, you really are an idiot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained

Read the wiki on the movie.
One comes to this conclusion:
The black characters are strong, smart
The white characters are stupid/weak

Even the bad black guy is smart and he figures out what the protagonists are doing. The bad white guy is tricked... etc.

Columnist Jeff Kuhner wrote a reaction to the SNL skit for The Washington Times, saying: "Anti-white bigotry has become embedded in our postmodern culture. Take Django Unchained. The movie boils down to one central theme: the white man as devil—a moral scourge who must be eradicated like a lethal virus."

Liberals (of all races) criticize the movie - from an ultra-left p.o.v. - so again, the whites are criticized, even the ones trying to help.

The OP's point, whether it was a troll post or not, is still more or less accurate.

You didn't prove anything. The only thing you accomplished is looking more stupid in every post. :)

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Wow, this is too much fun, I can't believe how ridiculous you're arguments are. You know, I initially pegged you for a troll, but I'm starting to think you actually believe your inane logic defying proclamations. That makes this argument considerably more enjoyable. Then again maybe you're just more convincing then most trolls. I'll reply none the less.

Regarding Django, you are clearly backtracking. The original thread stated that ALL antagonists are white males (all meaning every single one.) you go on to state that Hollywood has some kindof reverse racist agenda, etc. Then you state that Django is about what the white antagonists tormenting the black hero, after I prove that there is an important black antagonist who torments the hero, you change your argument and state that the issue isn't that all antagonists are white men, admitting that there are non white antagonists, but the real agenda is that the white antagonists are portrayed as stupid and weak while the black ones are portrayed as smart and strong.

Then you make the absurd statement that Django is all about white men being portrayed as the devil. Have you even seen that movie? Did you not notice the heroic, intelligent, charismatic, resourceful white character who rescues the black protagonist and protects and aids him throughout the film. You know, the one who Christoph Waltz won an Oscar for portraying? And yet you still claim that all white characters in the movie are portrayed as weak, dumb, and evil? Get real man, you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

Oh and I'm still waiting for your answer on the relevance of Captain Philips being based on a true story. Though you obviously don't have one.

But of course why are we wasting all this time debating the themes of Django Unchained, do you have no response pertaining to the 9 other movies I listed featuring non white male antagonists? Or do they not fit into the world of your delusional agenda?

Oh and I find it hilarious how you constantly insult the intelligence of everyone who disagrees with you while simultaneously making yourself look like an idiot. I mean, if you're gonna make an incredibly stupid argument, you could at least be polite while doing it.

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You really are the stupidest person alive. Kill yourself.

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Javier Bardem is white bro. Spaniards and Hispanics are not the same thing.

That being said, you are still right, just bad examples.

"World needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door"

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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hispanic


1 : of or relating to the people, speech, or culture of Spain or of Spain and Portugal

2 : of, relating to, or being a person of Latin American descent living in the United States; especially : one of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin

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You are correct, Bardem is white and Spainards and Hispanics are different. However, there are white hispanics, black hispanics and asian hispanics.

I am a God

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Oh, how delightful. Another moron trying to erase and denounce latino/hispanic people as 'not really minorities'.

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if the villains were black it'd be racist, DUH!

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Is this a joke? Yes most bad guys in movies are white males, most good guys in movies are white males, most side characters and most love interest are all white. White people dominate every area of film so your complaint is that they're also dominating the bad guy roles?

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I have rarely seen a black male portrayed negatively in ANY movie.

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I guess you consider being constantly cast as gangsters and thugs as a "positive portrayal"?

The only time Denzel was able to get an Oscar is when he played a corrupt Black cop going against the honest young White cop.

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Ha, gangsters, yes, but often portrayed as 'good' gangsters but even Denzel was given his 'logic' - they are not 100% negative. How many movies have they had gangsters part of the protagonist's objective - helping out in many cases. You just can't take any kind of criticism - typical. No surprise.

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"I have rarely seen a black male portrayed negatively in anything"

you're either a troll or one of those delusional white people who like to yell "reverse racism"because you feel things aren't going your way.



you can talk as much as you want as long as you aint saying nothing

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Forget about the discussion. Just want to shout out another fam of Run The Jewels. Peace!

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Will Smith is going all "Oprah" to try and re-connect to his black fan base. I hope this blatant ploy doesn't work.

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OP:

1) Hollywood makes movies for White people and every once and a while throws a bone to people of color. Why be mad? There;s a movie about sad white people every month and a movie about an angry black guy/gal every six.
2) Would you rather have an out of work white actor or a white guy playing a villain?
3) White guys do a lot of evil stuff, soooooooo.......
4) Is it really the white guy as the villain that bothers you or is it the black guy being good?

PS - I haven't seen the film cause I'm tired of seeing white chicks banging black guys ;)

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"Well excuse me, dick-bag" - SweetCaroline12

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In regards to point 3): So does every other race of men on the planet.

But of course if someone wrote in their post that, "Black/Asian/Middle Eastern/Latino guys do a lot of evil stuff, sooooo", then most on here would throw a s**t fit in spite of it being true as well. This is one of the main ways in which PC generally operates: To completely conceal or deny any unpleasent truths if it dares to offend any particular minority group while simultaneously pointing out how f'ed up white guys are. It's a case of selective judgement.

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But they do too, soooooo......But the OP talking about white guys playing the villain. If the OP was talking about other races I would have said the same thing but tailored it to the specific race. If you're white are you happy?

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"Well excuse me, dick-bag" - SweetCaroline12

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And where exactly did I indicate in my post that the evils of men does not include white guys as well? The answer is I never did because it most certainly does include white men obviously. Now if, as you say, you pointed out this fact about white guys due to the OP's post relating to this issue specifically, then fine. However I really had no way of knowing this, so I simply decided to present the other facts of life in my response post.

And yes I'm white and simply overwhelmed with boundless joy and happiness by your reply! Not really, but I assume you catch my drift anyway.

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There's a lot of left-wing liberal types who like this movie (and topics).

No wonder, their posts are so ridiculous. There's an agenda for this movie. Why have that exact cast?

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Using wikipedia to back up your claim is weak. You do know anyone can write whatever they want on that article?

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If you define all non-blacks as white, all main characters but Will Smith and Margot Robbie were white men. If you cast almost only white men for your leading roles, then most of the time the bad guys will be white men.

If there is some singling out, it is that women don't get any leading roles except the obligatory leading lady/love interest.

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Totally BS, youcontrol.... find something you can control. :)

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