I don’t really think it’s brave or risky or anything. Around the turn of the millennium, Disney started trying to be not as goddamn white and racist. They’ve done this gradually, strategically, waiting for demographic changes to make bigger moves more viable while not putting off their white america Bible Belt tossers. They bought Marvel and Star Wars specifically to target and expand into teen and young adult demographics. And now here we are with this Black Panther film.JRPC wrote:Escape wrote:Just further to what I wrote up there, I wouldn't change anything about Black Panther out of my disdain for rich whites profiting from it. I've seen those clips of excited black kids and they're great, and the idea of an African society in a sky city (presuming that's where they live) is a cool one. I also imagine that lots of African-American academics would be against the potentially stereotypical adoption of their accents over the current ones. Anti-colonialism's the right move for me.
But I do agree with that petition because I feel that Disney should pay forward some of their ludicrous gains to black causes.
Don't really get that.
They're the only mega-studio doing something meaningful in this space and there must have been at least a perceived risk involved.
Shouldn't they be rewarded?
I don't see why they should be asked to pay up for breaking new ground and doing something meaningful.
regmcfly wrote:I'm sure black guys and girls are glad to see they've got massive representation
Christ how is this hard
ChopperByrne wrote:Black Panther is not the first positive portrayal of a black character they've had. They started it with Blade, which wasn't a one and done. It had two sequels. Then they had the Luke Cage Netflix series. Will Smith has been playing superhero, or superhero style characters for over 20 years.
What’s the point of representation? It’s good? Agreed.Diluted Dante wrote:He's not. He's saying that Disney making money off this is irrelevant to the point of representation.
Nah, it’s only “divisive” for a tiny number of blowhard dickheads on the internet who are butthurt that vidyagames and superhero films aren’t exclusively “for them” any more.RedDave2 wrote:... Similar, the films metacritic has been targeted by alt right dickheads in a similar manner to the last jedi (I'm only refering to those who objected to a female lead and a black main character, as opposed to people who genuinely didnt like the film) Surely the end goal of diversity is to make films inclusive and not feel that they belong only to one audience? It seems diversity can be as divisive as anything...
djchump wrote:Nah, it’s only “divisive” for a tiny number of blowhard dickheads on the internet who are butthurt that vidyagames and superhero films aren’t exclusively “for them” any more.RedDave2 wrote:... Similar, the films metacritic has been targeted by alt right dickheads in a similar manner to the last jedi (I'm only refering to those who objected to a feale lead and a black main character, as opposed to people who genuinely didnt like the film) Surely the end goal of diversity is to make films inclusive and not feel that they belong only to one audience? It seems diversity can be as divisive as anything...
Don’t fall for that “both sides are as bad as each other” bullshit narrative.
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