I am not normally one to give opinion on Movies, however I saw this Christmas Trailer the other night and it made me think (it's at the end of the trailer and spoken by Jamie Foxx (he is Django)
what do you think - lets all discuss
Django - Trailer - does this encourage Racism? View at your own descretion
by dreamgolfer 52 Replies latest social entertainment
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fakesmile
the fact that it is a Tarantino flick changes things a bit. i doubt any actor would turn down working with Quentin regardless of the roll. so no. not racist. if i had a chance to work with Q.T. and my role involved setting a record for dropping the "N-bomb", id do it without hesitation. if i were black and had to kill whitey for the role, id do that too.
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CaptainSchmideo
Are you at ALL familiar with Blaxpoitation Cinema? The films of the late 60 and early to mid 70's? Do you know who Ron O'Neal, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Pamela Grier, Tamara Dobson, Melvin Van Peebles, Richard Roundtree, Bernie Casey, Fred Williams are?
Are you familiar with the word, Homage?
Politically Correct? No. Exuberantly Exploitative? You Bet!
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fakesmile
politicaly correct? save that shit for the birds. did anyone complain when hitler was killed in inglorious basterds?
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mrsjones5
Hey, I just recently saw the guy who plays Gordon on Seseme Street in a blaxploitation flix, he was a pimp. It blew my mind.
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fakesmile
so, i had to google blaxploitation. its a real word. who comes up with this stuff? it sounds to me like they just started letting black ppl. star, direct, write, and cast in movies aimed at appealing to a black audience. so i was going thru my brain files to match an example and i remembered an episode of SNL. keenan thompson portrayed tyler perry. i cant link but i found it on hulu. i think it sums up blacksploitation. but where does it end? Dave chappelle? soul plane, the wash, baby boy, FRIDAY? am i racist cuz i luv smokey? how about red foxx or richard pryor? and gordon from sesame st. as a pimp? what movie is this i wanna see it. not because im racist but that sounds cool as hell.
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mrsjones5
The movie's name is Willie Dynamite
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blondie
I sat and watched the trailer at work with 5 black people. All are going to the movie........Jamie Foxx is a big draw.
In a new interview with Empire Magazine, Jamie Foxx says that, as Django's quest is really to find and reconnect with his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), by defeating Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the film's resident villain, who runs Candyland, where Broomhilda and other female slaves are sexually exploited, Foxx believes Django Unchained is a love story at the heart of it all:
"The one thing that stuck out to me in the script was that Django got married. Back then to be married was taboo. You could be killed... The strongest buck would mate with the strongest black woman so they could get stronger slaves. They didn't want black people married. So Django being married was a big thing for me. This is a love story. He's not trying to stop slavery. He's not trying to do anything but find the love of his life - which is like trying to find a needle in a world of haystacks."
Writer/director Tarantino adds in the interview that audiences will definitely be uncomfortable with the racism depicted in the movie, but he believes that it was important to show how "f****d-up" America used to be, stating:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/e4f3a3f0-add4-11e1-bcc4-123138165f92
"[The racism] is what I wanted to deal with and that's the reason to do it. It's not to avoid it, it's absolutely to deal with that. Show how America was back then and how f****d-up we were."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/jamie-foxx-django-unchained-kerry-washington_n_1857334.html
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mrsjones5
" WAS slavery an idyllic world of stable families headed by married parents? The recent controversy over “The Marriage Vow,” a document endorsed by the Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, might seem like just another example of how racial politics and historical ignorance are perennial features of the election cycle.
The vow, which included the assertion that “a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President,” was amended after the outrage it stirred.
However, this was not a harmless gaffe; it represents a resurfacing of a pro-slavery view of “family values” that was prevalent in the decades before the Civil War. The resurrection of this idea has particular resonance now, because it was 150 years ago, soon after the war began, that the government started to respect the dignity of slave families. Slaves did not live in independent “households”; they lived under the auspices of masters who controlled the terms of their most intimate relationships.
Back in 1860, marriage was a civil right and a legal contract, available only to free people. Male slaves had no paternal rights and female slaves were recognized as mothers only to the extent that their status doomed their children’s fate to servitude in perpetuity. To be sure, most slaves did all that they could to protect, sustain and nurture their loved ones. Freedom and the love of family are the most abiding themes that dominate the hundreds of published narratives written by former slaves.
Though slaves could not marry legally, they were allowed to do so by custom with the permission of their owners — and most did. But the wedding vows they recited promised not “until death do us part,” but “until distance” — or, as one black minister bluntly put it, “the white man” — “do us part.” And couples were not entitled to live under the same roof, as each spouse could have a different owner, miles apart. All slaves dealt with the threat of forcible separation; untold numbers experienced it first-hand.
... Why does the ugly resuscitation of the myth of the happy slave family matter? Because it is part of a broad and deliberate amnesia, like the misleading assertion by Sarah Palin that the founders were antislavery and the skipping of the “three-fifths” clause during a Republican reading of the Constitution on the House floor. The oft-repeated historical fictions about black families only prove how politically useful and resilient they continue to be in a so-called post-racial society. Refusing to be honest about how racial inequality has burdened our shared history and continues to shape our society will not get us to that post-racial vision."
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