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The next point to make is that we have very few legendary black actors. Our most famous, Denzel Washington, has been typecast to an epic level. Man On Fire, Virtuosity, Out of Time and Inside Man are all the same movie, in a different setting, with different names. It's unfortunate, but as a culture, we are simply not ready to let our black actors shine the way we let our whites. -Cash Nelson | The next point to make is that we have very few legendary black actors. Our most famous, Denzel Washington, has been typecast to an epic level. Man On Fire, Virtuosity, Out of Time and Inside Man are all the same movie, in a different setting, with different names. It's unfortunate, but as a culture, we are simply not ready to let our black actors shine the way we let our whites. -Cash Nelson | ||
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| + | I agree with you Cash that the lack of prominent black actors is an issue. Denzel though to his credit has portrayed historic figures well (Malcolm X, Ruben Carter), but he obviously couldn't pull off a portrayal of MLK. And it isn't as though other black figures haven't been successfully portrayed: Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin and Charlie Parker, Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles (I feel like I heard that Don Cheadle is doing a Miles Davis biopic in the future). I guess I was more curious over whether the fact that King has yet to be definitively depicted on screen is more a function of the lack of black actors, or is there a fear of trying to do justice in a portrayal of one of the most compelling Americans ever? I mean who wouldn't go see a MLK biopic? -Bryan Mull | ||
The movie seems to hold back a bit on showing the actual violence going on. The movie implies the violence is bad by mentioning the church bombings, but the couple of scenes of actual violence in the movie are relevantly tame. There is clearly an attitude of fear in the movie about the situation, but we never really see the real reason for the fear as all the characters in the movie get off ok. - Jonathan Bell | The movie seems to hold back a bit on showing the actual violence going on. The movie implies the violence is bad by mentioning the church bombings, but the couple of scenes of actual violence in the movie are relevantly tame. There is clearly an attitude of fear in the movie about the situation, but we never really see the real reason for the fear as all the characters in the movie get off ok. - Jonathan Bell | ||
