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The Celebrated Jumping [chat] of Calaveras County
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(say that in a spooky voice and read matt's post)
what are you a writer
huh
huh???
Well yeah, not good, but it's what happens for pretty understandable reasons.
Man, I don't get people who get their knickers in a twist about whitewashed films. If you don't like it, don't watch it and hope it'll be a commercial failure so moviemakers might be a bit more careful about whitewashing in the future.
Alternatively write in to your local newspaper or get movie critics to get annoyed at the whitewashing.
Bitching about it online because it's some sort of perceived racism (which is generally wouldn't be unless you've got some strange KKK director in charge of the movie or something) is just dumb.
I don't think it's a moral failing on the part of the author/screenwriter/etc, but I think it's perfectly fair to point out when a book or movie offers a simplistic, superficial depiction of a different culture.
It might not even be that damning. In the case of Avatar, the whole movie is simplistic. I don't expect anything more from it. And it's offering a simplistic view of a fantasy race; I don't think that the Navi are directly comparable enough to any one real Earth culture to be considered a veiled allegory.
In the case of a movie like Dances With Wolves, though, it is a lot more damning. I don't think DWW survives as a story if you remove/ignore the Native American stereotypes, and I think a lot of its appeal at the time was it's well-meaning, but condescending, sensitivity towards Sioux.
Actually...
Sadly unpublished, but I think I'm awesome.
Very well put.
This is why I love you.
Well, basically yeah. He's still kind of the white guy going into the other place and learning the thing and saving them, although at least with the whole it's-a-part-of-my-heritage-I'm-learning-about-now angle. No idea if that part is factual or was introduced in the movie-fication
what
I thought all wars prior to ww1 were played out with little army men on a landscaped table
wargaming is a timehonoured tradition handed down from our forefathers, paint jobs the work of honest, good men
waterloo was won when the count of vichy accidentally went loo over the french forces and all that
Dead serious.
That's what an 18th century hand grenade looked like. That's what a Grenadier threw.
oh uh
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awwwwkwarrrddddddd
the book has the n-word in it
at first i didn't think anything of it, but now i'm positive she's a horrible racist. i bet she looks at that word every time it comes up and thinks 'yeah, that's what I'M talking about'
Of course. I think it's a pretty clear-cut "hmm there's something manipulative about this whole thing" vibe going on, but as far as Hollywood is concerned, they do whatever has to be done to continue being successful.
It doesn't work well with them either. But it is a pretty racist movie.
Suicide pact?
Last one to die, please turn out the lights.
also how many times she audibly came.
This [chat] is amphibious!
I hear that if you lick it you'll have hallucinations.
I wish I could give a more nuanced critique, but its just bad.
Quigley Down Under kind of had that, but I don't really put it in the same thing, because its not like he taught the aboriginees to fight, he was just more skilled at killing their actual oponents with his technology.
But these are so much smaller than the ones you see in cartoons!
I edited his nose all broken, critically removed a few teeth to tighten the plot, and filled in the details of his black eyes
I know, right? I will not be able to get enough of Rachel Maddow if it's a Palin/Bachmann ticket of any sort. But I will still lose a lot of faith in my country if either of them manages to get elected. Not kidding.
You mean some sort of racist relational database?
Is quigley down under as hilarious as the wikipedia article for it sounds?
apparently it grows on you, according to robert khoo
(like a brain tumor HEYOOOOO)
oh man, that movie takes me back
Oversized for humor, ya know nothing is funnier then a bigger bomb.
Well sometimes I think it'd be ok. Like, I would be cool with retitling The Great Gatsby.
Also, fuck me. I thought chat was just talking about n-words and Huck Finn for kicks. I didnt realize this stupid shit was happening for real.
Also, is it illegal to enter the other gender's bathroom in a restaurant?
I dunno what you mean by hilarious. Its a straight western with Tom Selleck as the lone Gunfighter come to town to take on the evil cattleman in Alan Rickman. Just instead of a pistol, he's packing a huge fucking rifle.
but that sounds hilarious
You Grew On Me