Every white person is portrayed as extremely incapable and stupid, or as shady assholes. Except "Malcom" who is a trans man.
That’s the vast majority of movies and TV these days. My wife insisted we watch something together last night, so I sat down to the insanity of hoping for something different from the same bullshit sources. The first scene? A creepy dude tries to proposition a threesome to break the ice. And the one dimensional idiot creeper gets put in his place by the clever, morally complex women. Of course he does.
I told my wife to pay attention to the characteristics of the characters that were written in a way she could relate to, as well as the ones that were designed to be hated. All the disgusting, depthless shitheels were straight and white, of course. They always are. And all the complex, morally relatable characters were some variation of minority, either a darker shade on the progressive color palette of virtue or an upstanding member of the alphabet mafia.
When I walked away near the end of the first episode, she said “you’re gonna cancel prime now too, aren’t you?” Yes, I am.
I appreciate the warning about A Man Called Otto, in any case. I’d already lost any faith in Tom Hanks not being a lefty hack, but he’s still a good actor, and the trailer looked decent. I won’t bother now.
Remember in the joker movie where 3 rich white dudes tried to mug him, which was a twist off of Death Wish where 3 poor black dudes tried to mug him, which was a reference to an actual event that took place in NYC?
That’s the vast majority of movies and TV these days. My wife insisted we watch something together last night, so I sat down to the insanity of hoping for something different from the same bullshit sources. The first scene? A creepy dude tries to proposition a threesome to break the ice. And the one dimensional idiot creeper gets put in his place by the clever, morally complex women. Of course he does.
I told my wife to pay attention to the characteristics of the characters that were written in a way she could relate to, as well as the ones that were designed to be hated. All the disgusting, depthless shitheels were straight and white, of course. They always are. And all the complex, morally relatable characters were some variation of minority, either a darker shade on the progressive color palette of virtue or an upstanding member of the alphabet mafia.
When I walked away near the end of the first episode, she said “you’re gonna cancel prime now too, aren’t you?” Yes, I am.
I appreciate the warning about A Man Called Otto, in any case. I’d already lost any faith in Tom Hanks not being a lefty hack, but he’s still a good actor, and the trailer looked decent. I won’t bother now.
Philadelphia, while obviously about faggots and AIDS, is actually extremely good, as a movie…
Like, propaganda in a sense aside (and the fact that his character is sort of… Morally grey), it’s just very fucking good.
He definitely deserved the gong for that one, imho.
If you haven’t seen it yet.
Skip Philadelphia and go straight to Joe vs the Volcano.
A 1990 film that is somewhat of a remake of a classic Japanese film, Ikiru.
Actually just watch Ikiru. It is far, far better than anything Hanks has done in his career.
I.... looooove Joe vs the Volcano. That and the original 48 Hours are two of some of my absolute favourite films.
I could watch those and the Three Amigos over and over again and never get bored of them.
Remember in the joker movie where 3 rich white dudes tried to mug him, which was a twist off of Death Wish where 3 poor black dudes tried to mug him, which was a reference to an actual event that took place in NYC?