Racist Movies You Didn't KnowWere Racist — Page 3

TheBoost said:

Akwat Kbrana said:

So...Romeo must Die is a racist film because the two protagonists didn't kiss at the end of the film?

Really? Really?

 I think they're refrencing what is seem by some as a de-sexifying of Asian men in American movies.

Asian men can kick some ass, but they cant get the girl (look at Jackie Chan).

I've heard people make the claim, but I've never given much thought to how true it might be.

For what it's worth, does Jet Li or Jackie Chan (or any other Asian dude) ever get the girl?

I saw a doc about portrayal of Asians in Hollywood and apparently Jet Li was going to get the girl in some movie but test audiences didn't like it so they cut it out at the last minute.

skyjedi2005 said:

TheBoost said:

xhonzi said:

TheBoost said:

 Oh. So you're intepretting "Avatar" as an Iraq War analogy?  I think that's stretching the material a bit.

Really?  I have no doubt that Avatar was meant, by Cameron and most other people involved, to be an Irag War analogy.

No doubt whatsoever.

OK, I just read that Cameron make some remarks where he explcitly states that was his goal. But he sure did a piss poor job of it.

Everything the Iraq War is about is absent. Iraq is not based on some touchy-feely environementalism and a failure of two peoples to communicate. Even the staunchest opponents of the war wouldn't make that claim.

Now, if Avatar it was set in the Starship Troopers universe, and after the bugs destroy Buenos Aires THEN humans go  invade Avatarworld as retribution, that would be a better analogy.

But just having a character say "there's some resource we want" and using the term "shock and awe" doesn't impart some kind of powerful political meaning into the film.

I declare "epic fail" if Cameron thought he had something relevant to say on Iraq.

You know what i agree with you.  AVATAR as a message on the war on terror is one giant epic fail.

Yeah I don't really see that either. I think the whole "shock and awe" thing was just kind of thrown into there, but I doesn't really seem to work.

vote_for_palpatine said:

Those audiences were racists, obviously.

I never noticed that...I'm losing my touch.

Bingowings said:

When did Iraq attack America?

They attacked Kuwait and Iran but never America.

The last nation state to attack America was Japan.

Starship Troopers would be just as off in terms of the Iraq war.

 (If you were referring to my post)

I was kinda making a joke.

The  bugs from Troopers attack and destroy Buenos Aeries. In retaliation Earth for some reason invades Avatarworld.

TheBoost said:

Bingowings said:

When did Iraq attack America?

They attacked Kuwait and Iran but never America.

The last nation state to attack America was Japan.

Starship Troopers would be just as off in terms of the Iraq war.

 (If you were referring to my post)

I was kinda making a joke.

The  bugs from Troopers attack and destroy Buenos Aeries. In retaliation Earth for some reason invades Avatarworld.

 Humour, a difficult concept, it is not logical  ‚:-/

Sorry about, most of the time I catch them but often I do not (blame it on the boogie...or old age).

Bingowings said:

I once read a review of Aliens which postulated that it was all a racist metaphor for black and white motherhood.

The black alien queen is a parasite who constantly churns out hundreds of fatherless savage children which choke up the environment.

Ripley, the white mother figure throws all of her energy behind one adopted resourceful child and cleans up the neighbourhood after entering into a nuclear family unit with Hicks.

Utter balls.

 How to people come up with this stuff?!

I have no words for how stupid that is.

Why are you bumping these old threads?!

I have no words for how annoying it is to have to read them all.

Oh, how I long for a colourblind society.

And on that note:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYIc217kx58

DuracellEnergizer said:

Oh, how I long for a colourblind society.

And on that note:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYIc217kx58

 Yeah i was raised to think of all people as people so I miss a lot of racism because I tend not to think of people as their race, so  I normally think a joke or something is making a statement about the character and not the race he belongs to and I have to have it pointed out to me that something racist is going on.

That said even I picked up on the stereotypes  in Episode one, I am not sure how that got through production without anyone saying anything.