Now with my interactions with rednecks, It's safe to say their were too many black girls associated with these people. Not realistic and that is all.
lol hollywood movies gotta love them!
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Go anywhere in Texas and you will see black women with white men all over.
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I don't live down south, but I come from a similar area to the town depicted in the film, and there is a diverse mix of black and white. To me this was not unrealistic at all.
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We'll it was good to see that they were blacks in the remake because I dont even think they were any in the original, lol!
shareNow with my interactions with rednecks, It's safe to say their were too many black girls associated with these people. Not realistic and that is all.
I thought it was an odd mix too.
Especially "hip-hop" blacks and rednecks mixing.
I live in the town where many of the scenes were shot (20 miles north of Atlanta) and there was definitely too much racial inter-mingling. I loved it, but not realistic at all.
Don't get me wrong, Atlanta is very much integrated, but subrban high schools and backwoods towns like depicted in the movie would not have whites and black of every clique hanging out like that.
It's a movie about a large group of teenagers in one small town that are great at dancing. I find that more unrealistic.
shareI have lived in Marietta almost my whole life (and technically should have gone to Osborne HS) and I didn't find the racial intermingling to be that off, a bit exagerated, but not by much. And although I graduated in 04, cliques/grouping (not sure on right term) was deffinatly even less race based for my sister, who graduated this year, although it was in Conyers (which is pretty small, about 14,000 pop, but still in the metro area).
While I'd say different 'groups' in metro atlanta do hang out, I think you're deffinately right that this movie is highly exagerated for most small towns.
I always get weirded out when I visit the rest of my family (who generally live in small towns), where black people and white people have very little to do with each other, besides bickering behind each other's back. I went to my brother's grad 2 years ago too, (in a small town in NC) and there was almost no interaction between people of different races.
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Why did they make Sarah Jessica Parker black? I hate movies like this, put 1 black person hanging with a bunch of white people, it's like saying, this girl wants to be white or something.
shareWell I guess it was good that this new Rusty wasn't the only black person in the mix. Thank goodness that Woody and his girlfriend were black otherwise, everyone would be curious as to why Rusty hung out with Ren, Ariel and was dating Willard.
shareRusty wasn't black. The character's full name was Rusty Rodriguez. But either way, why does it matter? Rusty #2 was much more believable as Willard's GF.
And one black person in a group of white people doesn't mean that the black person "wants to be white." If there are only 10 black people in a class of 200, it's stupid (and racist) to expect each of those 10 people to only hang out with the other black people.
I can't speak for nowadays but I spent a few years in deep east Texas and I can tell you that blacks and whites mingled just fine. On ALL levels. This portrayal was not at all inaccurate for back then in the late 8o's-early 9o's.
With the recent racial upheavals and rise in PC SJWs, I'm not sure if it's still like that anymore.
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