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A Very Racism Film...

posted 12 years ago by film_professor
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...towards blacks and Asian alike.

1. As if the producers couldn't find a few hot black girls who could sing(you know there's tons out there) but instead use a he/she person.
2. The he/she person had limited dialogue and reduced to background wallpaper basically.
3. The Asian roommate hating white people. Which is anything but since most Asians get along just fine with whites, especially in college.
4. The quiet Asian girl. Just another way to silent the few minorities in the film, making them look anti-social and culturally out of place amongst the whites.
5. Of course there was no way they'd be able to beat that black group so for the sake of making whites the film's hero, what do the writers do ...turn the talented black high school student into a lying cheating villain.
6. Totally butch a black cultural classic like "No Diggity".
7. No black male leads or secondaries.

The usual white Hollywood racism going one I suppose. Just my two cents.

[–] noordj 11 years ago

Oo please, and if we change the asian role in a white person role, en visa versa, and we do this also for the black girl, then i asume there is no racism problem.
So i know another, why the Judges are ignorant white folks, like white people are Always nasty, take asian or black for this.

And you everything but a film professor.

[–] veras_gunn 11 years ago

1. As if the producers couldn't find a few hot black girls who could sing(you know there's tons out there) but instead use a he/she person.

This seems a little racist to me. Every black girl in a movie has to be some diva who can belt out at the top of their lungs? Talk about stereotyping. Why not have her be a baptist who sings in her choir all the time while we're at it?

6. Totally butch a black cultural classic like "No Diggity".

I don't see how this is racist either. A white chick can't sing that? It's only for black people? My ass. Music, like all art, is for everyone, regardless of gender, sexuality or ethnicity. It's a unifying force, and I would think someone who wants to be a DJ the way Anna Kendrick's character did would not discriminate songs based on their genre or how they're perceived culturally, which is what she's showing in that scene.

[–] Soodinum 10 years ago

OP - I see people like you who have problems with everything that isn't as (in your eyes) fair and even to all and every race and culture as being the most racist people in our society. See if you can work out why.

'Then' and 'than' are different words - stop confusing them.

[–] radiantpeanut 10 years ago

Yep, the title of this post should use the word "racist" not "racism."
It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change.
Alice in Wonderland

[–] MirrorofReflection 10 years ago

Oh boohoo. Go start a protest.

[–] malcolm-smith 10 years ago

There weren't any Welsh people in there either.

So what's your point?

[–] raygunpunx-465-246490 10 years ago

Please die

[–] Helenlaurence 9 years ago

I don't agree with everything you said but I agree there are some racist stereotypes.
And everyone seems to have missed the bit where fat Amy says something like "dead Jews" and later on makes another anti- Jewish joke.
Bits of this film I really didn't like.