Best quote in the movie.
The thought did not even occur to me until former maid ( who is black) said it when seeing Chance on tv for the first time.
For those who did not see the movie, the lead character 'Chance'is a simpleton, a well dressed white man who's slow basic statements are thought to hold deep meaning.
Playing on TCM right now
that was actually very daring for it's time. good movie
shareIf white conservatives saw that scene now, they would throw a tantrum and call it "woke"
shareAnd yet they didn't at the time. 🤔
shareBecause they weren't so sensitive about race talk.
shareThat must be it. Can't think of any other explanation.
shareI like how people in this thread say both "that was actually very daring for it's time" and "they weren't so sensitive about race talk". Like pick a lane.
shareIt's not the same person saying these two different things. I know that's a shocker for some people but not everyone thinks the same about everything. Not even the people we manage to stuff into little boxes with labels like "liberal" or "conservative." Sure, there's a ton of goose steppers around here but even they have different views on some points.
Don't reply. Just give it a few minutes to sink in first.
What’s funny as I took this line as, the black communities can’t get get out of their own way because of their state of mind.
She was very cruel to chance and said mean things, then when she saw him on TV there was jealousy and instead of her being a state of mind to get out of the dilemma, she blames everything else and believes she will never escape because of the White man. Her peers clearly kind of were looking at her like she was crazy. Plus they clearly showed the black neighborhood of them threatening Chance and their behavior. They will be always that way because they chose not to change their state of mind.
This isn’t woke but it’s one of the most intelligent things I have seen on film explaining your problems exist because of yourself and no one else.
Very anti woke. If you ask me and perfect
I never really noticed or thought too much of the racial stuff before until I just recently re-watched it.
Sometimes the people cannot help where they are or change their situations.
The maid, who is near retirement age and not college educated, ends up in a real cheap motel or other very low class living situation where either she is collecting on SS or has a low paying job.
She is right and there is a point in showing how unfair things are to blacks and whites to where a moron gets mistaken for being a wise, rich businessman.
Let's say the car had bumped her instead.
You really think Eve would have taken her back?
I'm guessing she would have dropped her off at the hospital and left her there.
It was lucky that Chance was white and dressed like a rich man to be picked up and taken back to the mansion.
Chance, new to the world, stereotypes the X-Ray tech in the rich man's clinic home thinking he might know Rafael seeing he is black.
This would be way too sensitive to the woke morons even though it is just an honest and naive mistake so that scene or dialog or races would not happen or be different if this movie was made today because of the white, PC Nazis who ruin things for everyone else.