I mean almost none of the political people in the film are minorities, if any. It seems strange to me.
"You're from the 60s! Peace love dope! Back, back to the 60s! No place for you in the future!"
Robin, the President's Press Secretary is black. The lead agent on the President's Security detail is black. There's a high-ranking couple at the President's table during the State Dinner that's black. I believe there's a hispanic man leaving the Oval Office after a meeting. I think much more than that would've gotten disinguous. And before you lash out, yes, I'm black.
shareNah, I won't lash out. I'll just note that the Clinton and second Bush Administration (at least at first) had way more minority representation, in comparison to the number of minorities in this film.
"You're from the 60s! Peace love dope! Back, back to the 60s! No place for you in the future!"
I don't get it. How come whenever there is a movie with hardly any minorities, people start to complain. However, when there are movies with all minorities, no one complains that there is no white people??? Seriously, its a movie. Talk about double standards.
shareIt's a film about the Left by the Left, therefore it makes no sense to me that the fictional, stereotypical Democrats are depicted as almost being predominately white as their fictional, stereotypical Republican "demons" represented by a mere handful of hate-mongers. Where's the Black Caucus? Where's the minority interest groups? This film's Democratic Party is a virtual lily-white world, which is a no-no in a Liberal fantasy. Minority representation represents the idealized fantasy of the Democrats' image of themselves. It's not an accident that Republicans in these movies have no minorities in spite of clear evidence to the contrary that minority Republicans exist.
"You're from the 60s! Peace love dope! Back, back to the 60s! No place for you in the future!"
It's not a film about the left by the left. It's a love story.
The Prez in the movie is a Democrat because we had a Democratic Prez at the time.
Minorities are called minorities because they are......a MINORITY in the population. The country back then had about 8 - 10% people who were black. Not sure how many hispanics, but a lot less than now.
So if there are 10 speaking roles and ONE is a black, then that reflects the country. In movies such as this one, they try to reflect the actual circumstances they are spoofing. Clinton didn't have highly visible blacks that were at the level or had the jobs that have speaking lines in this movie.
The way I look at it... skin color should not matter... it's just skin color. If the movie was all white people or if the movie was all black people or if it was mixed... it shouldn't matter. We should not see or lable people by the color of their skin... they are all just people.
share*nods* Just surprised the film did not project an idealized version of the Democrats in the area of minority representation, considering how many other political stereotypes (Liberal filmmaker ones that is) it embodied of said political ideology. Being Democrats are the all inclusive party fighting against the demonic regressive Republicans, part of said stereotype involves minority representation as only being the province of the Democrats. But in this film, the stereotypical Democrats in that area might have just as well been stereotypical Republicans. Seems to be an abnormality depiction-wise, as traditionally only Republicans are depicted as being a majority white party to emphasize their "evil" nature. I'm commenting on the film from a cinematic perspective.
"You're from the 60s! Peace love dope! Back, back to the 60s! No place for you in the future!"
This was the '90s. No, the Clinton administration did not have more minorities than pictured in the film.
shareAlso Leo's secretary is Japanese.
share@hollankreil Not true - Charlie the gardener was black.
*crickets*
I'll show myself out.
How about Michael J. Fox ? He represents Parkinson's disease sufferers, certainly a minority.
shareOP, did you really see the movie? Did you look at the cast list on this site? There are at least five Black actors, and other people of color.
shareOP isn't available to the message board right now; he's busy on his calculator tallying up the minority actors in this film. He'll return momentarily with babbling blather about the idealized US national Democrat and Republican parties. Stay tuned.
shareTrue people with disabilities are a minority, Disability is a traditionally under represented group. and ethnicity/race is not the only traditionally disadvantaged group.
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You know, racial minorities are funny that way. There are almost as many people in the world that identify black as those that identify white, and Asians outnumber both groups - more than blacks and white combined. I saw no Asians in this film - the whole cast were minorities. We could break it down further, since many are mixed race now, but that gets confusing very quickly. Many from S America have European (Spanish) DNA. Many of European and Scandinavian decent show Asian DNA from the Mongolian horde occupations over the years. Many in the US have these same problems to deal with, plus adding to it from the historic melting pot this country has been since it's inception. Unless you are talking sexual minority - there were more men than women in the film by a very narrow margin. 1 in 30 could be gay, so I imagine they were represented. 1 in 300 could be transsexual; there weren't 300 in the cast, so hopefully someone on the crew fit the bill. Not so strange. Bringing up minorities in a world filled with minorities is counterproductive to society.
shareIt seems that in the mid-'90s leaders in both Washington and Hollywood didn't feel a lot of desire or need to have racial diversity, they felt that just being (marginally) better than their predecessors would be good enough.
shareSo?
shareCause white liberals don't really like POCs outside of tricking and abusing them as Malcom X eloquently stated.
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