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Does Wesley Snipes get no credit for Blade (1998) ???

posted a year ago by wayfarer (69)
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Why all the fuss over this movie, when in the 90s we had TWO black superhero movies just off the top of my head, Spawn and Blade. So why did everyone freak out as if Black Panther was the first black superhero, when he clearly wasn't.

Furthermore, when Blade came out, it was considered a good movie, but no one freaked out over a black man in the lead role, because we had a lot of black actors in lead roles in the 90s, so it wasn't out of the ordinary to see a black man lead a superhero movie.

Why, then, in 2018 did everyone go insane over THIS movie? Is it because we have gone backward so much from the 90s, and by 2018, a black man leading a superhero movie had become some kind of impossible idea in the minds of moviegoers.

I can only say, I think racial diversity in films must have really went DOWNHILL from 1999 to 2018, for anyone to make such a big deal of a black man headlining a film. I still don't get the fuss over this, when Blade and Spawn had already come out. Also it's kind of an insult to all the great black actors and performances which came before.

[–] Puvwall (1384) a year ago

I loved blade and spawn. And i agree with your sentiment. My geuss is the marketing was false ( finally a black super hero) but worked on many as they maybe were not old enough to remember blade and spawn

[–] Pete314 (3018) a year ago

because we have gone backward so much from the 90s

This^^
The so called lefties don't have targets anymore. So they think they have to take care of things which are already settled and done. Highly annoying and useless...

[–] TMC-4 (20161) 8 months ago

What if WESLEY SNIPES Played Black Panther?

https://youtu.be/SjwxONbU1Is?list=PLjfsQQo2uC2F7ByyIr2bKbW8H1SK8zoMe

Black Panther (2018) was one of the best MCU movies and an incredibly influential one too. The late great Chadwick Boseman did an amazing job capturing the spirit of the character, however he was never supposed to be the first actor to portray the character. In the '90s, we nearly got one from Sony that would've starred Wesley Snipes. So, what would've it been like?

[–] Magicdave (862) 6 months ago

Wesley would have made a GREAT T'Challa!

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7176) 8 months ago

Because the superheroes were POC but the majority of the casts were white. Black Panther was the opposite, there are key white characters but the majority of the cast were POC, which shouldn't be new to superhero films precisely because of these two 90s films, but was when BP was released.

[–] DoctorThirteen (14090) 8 months ago

'Furthermore, when Blade came out, it was considered a good movie, but no one freaked out over a black man in the lead role'

This. When Blade came out and I went to see it in the cinema I never once thought 'holy crap, this is a black guy as the lead', I just thought 'this guy is badass as ****'.

[–] Kowalski (75745) 8 months ago

LOOK AT THAT GAP...1999 TO 2018...THREE BLACK SUPER HEROES ON THE BIG SCREEN IN TOTAL...CELEBRATION WAS IN ORDER.

[–] jakemon45 (1136) 6 months ago

Blade isn't a superhero movie. It's a vampire movie.

[–] Magicdave (862) 6 months ago

It's both. It's a superhero film dealing with a person who was the unfortunate byproduct of a vampire's attack on his mother. He was then endowed with superhuman abilities.

[–] Magicdave (862) 6 months ago

I agree with you. Racial diversity back in those days was gradually progressing at a good rate. There were many great black actors that almost seem to be ignored today by racists with divisive agendas.
Sidney Poitier comes to mind. He was a GREAT actor. He made it look effortless and believable.
Marvel comics as another example was very diverse back when I was a kid. There were several black superheroes.
It feels like people with divisive agendas are trying to make us ignore all the good that has come before for their own ideas.