Lisa P's best-friend/co-worker was black. Did you even watch this movie or are you just getting your troll on?
shareLisa P's best-friend/co-worker was black. Did you even watch this movie or are you just getting your troll on?
Where are all the white people in southcentral LA? Oh wait, there are none. Same reason why there are no black people in a Pittsburgh suburb circa 1987...
shareThe kind of outer NYC suburbs where it was set were basically like 95%-99% white back then.
sharediff times,,,, there werent black folk in the burbs til the late 90s in most cities. sorry,its just how it is. and the usa was alot whiter in the 80s aswell.
shareYeah just how it was. CA as whole, cities and suburbs combined, was like 87% white in 1973 I think and now it's about maybe 45% white in 2016. The population literally doubled in that state and about 85% of the increase was from immigration.
If you walked around some of the big malls in 1987 in the sorts of areas he based the movie on you'd have seen like 95% white people, when you walk around the same exact malls in 2016 you see about 25-80% Hispanic people. Millennials are too young to realize the incredible population increases over the last couple decades and how radically it changed demographics.
Not trying to stir up a hornets nest, those are just the facts and why what might appear to be fake and white-washed and manipulated to someone under maybe 30-35 today was actually totally realistic (maybe one of the few things it did realistically about those areas in 1987 other than for, partly, Lisa P).
NYC Suburb? Pittsburgh is 400 miles from New York.
shareThe movie was supposed to based on his life in a suburb of NYC out on Long Island and some nearby boardwalk Coney Island type place for the amusement park.
They just shot it and then set in Pittsburgh when he couldn't find a local amusement park that still had all it's 80s rides and signage and he thought the ones where he grew up looked too modern now.
Black people weren't invented yet.
I've never seen that. I've never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick. I-I've never seen that.