TheBoost said:

Bingowings said:

The studios do distribute a load of crap films.

If this film is crap and I can't say it is because I haven't seen it but if it is I think the studio reaction (assuming that Lucas hasn't pulled that out of his bucket of chicken) is more to do with the financial downturn than race.

It does seem very cheap of George to play the race card.

What about the first major motion picture about gay airmen in World War 2 George?

Racism is a bigger social issue but cinematographically it's kind of covered, where as with gay American war heroes, male and/or female, there's a lot of room for coverage in there.

With conscription there must have been thousands of gay service men and women during the war.

So much so that even a bad film would be considered at least a step in the right direction.

Studios are very frightened of any film that might be labeled a 'black movie.'

Robert Townsend said the studios delayed the relase of "Meteor Man" because it was a 'black movie' and they figured all the black people we seeing 'Menace 2 Society' that month.

"Spawn" had the studio insist a black character be recast as white to avoid making the audience think it was a 'black movie.'

And studies show the studios aren't completely off base.

I totally agree with you that a movie about gay soldiers would be a real step in the right direction. If you ever see the movie "Enigma" (which i don't reccomend) they more or less replace gay-super genius warhero Alan Turing with a generic straight guy in a fictionalized retelling.

They don't seem to be too afraid of black comedies though. Or all those Tyler Perry movies independently distributed?

The studios were pretty quick to get on the Blacksploitation bandwagon after "Shaft", and just as quick to bail when the genre petered out. If Red Tails ends up making a profit, the other studios will take notice.