It boggles my mind that there are people awake enough to be on this board, yet still asleep enough not to see that Blade, as good as it is, is still ultimately a black-man-gets-revenge-on-whitey movie.
The obfuscation is razor thin, and yet its apparently still more than sufficient.
It pretty obviously influenced Fledgling, which is very on the nose about its messaging, obfuscating nothing at all - yet, to its credit, is not a revenge story.
That's why movies and TV are so effective. People immediately buy into the premise without comprehending that every single thing is planned and written out beforehand, down to where actors put their feet when standing. People understand in the abstract how it works; that scripts tell actors what to do and what to say, that someone wrote the script, that someone filmed the episode but yet they will still argue from within the world of the show to justify anything.
The thought process is really strange. There's an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where the main character pisses on a portrait of Christ. My wife was telling me how hilarious that episode was. When I told her I didn't think it was funny, she launched into the plot of the show and the zany circumstances that caused this jew to piss on a painting of Christ.
I had to walk her step by step through why it was written specifically so that Larry David could piss on a portrait of Christ. She finally understood when I hypothetically switched out the portrait of Christ for the woman's great-grandmother. The episode would've played out nearly the same.
It boggles my mind that there are people awake enough to be on this board, yet still asleep enough not to see that Blade, as good as it is, is still ultimately a black-man-gets-revenge-on-whitey movie.
The obfuscation is razor thin, and yet its apparently still more than sufficient.
It pretty obviously influenced Fledgling, which is very on the nose about its messaging, obfuscating nothing at all - yet, to its credit, is not a revenge story.
That's why movies and TV are so effective. People immediately buy into the premise without comprehending that every single thing is planned and written out beforehand, down to where actors put their feet when standing. People understand in the abstract how it works; that scripts tell actors what to do and what to say, that someone wrote the script, that someone filmed the episode but yet they will still argue from within the world of the show to justify anything.
The thought process is really strange. There's an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where the main character pisses on a portrait of Christ. My wife was telling me how hilarious that episode was. When I told her I didn't think it was funny, she launched into the plot of the show and the zany circumstances that caused this jew to piss on a painting of Christ.
I had to walk her step by step through why it was written specifically so that Larry David could piss on a portrait of Christ. She finally understood when I hypothetically switched out the portrait of Christ for the woman's great-grandmother. The episode would've played out nearly the same.