Should black people be allowed to make films on their own? Opinion is generally divided between “No, Danny Glover’s just playing the race card” and “No, Danny Glover’s just being racist”
If this were a white producer trying to get funding for an African film with no African heroes in it, or a Bollywood film with no Asian heroes, or a Chinese film with no Chinese heroes, we wouldn’t be having this debate. How come every race in the world is allowed to be racist except white people? Danny Glover can go to hell and take his film with him. I’m sick of this PC nonsense.
anon.
How dare he make a film set in Haiti without a minimum of 40% white heroes. Next the PC brigade will order Richard E. Grant to have black heroes in his film about Swaziland. White people really do have it harder than any other race in history. If only you’d put your real name down, we could have posted you a box of tissues to dry your tears of frustration.
perhaps he’ll consider putting a token white person in his film. It’s something white film makers have had to do many times with a coloured actor to appease black supremacists like Danny Glover.
I get bored of this race card rubbish.
mat j
You just need to get yourself a new race card with a bit less angry, fabricated bullshit on it.
I would never give a shred of support, financial or otherwise, to any endeavor from a left-winger like Danny Glover.
Girard Hughley
Give ‘em an inch and they start offering healthcare to sick people. Disgusting.
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Yes, what about OUR right to be racist? What’s the point of shooting and bombing brown people indiscriminately for hundreds of years if we don’t have a monopoly on ignorant prejudice as well?
Is this the Danny Glover who’s mainly famous for taking all the bullets as kerrazy Mel Gibson’s sidekick? He’s a very subtle black supremacist, if so.
Argh, frankly.
if i wantd too live in lefty multicutlral society, I’d move ther
I would never give a shred of support, financial or otherwise, to any endeavor from a left-winger like Danny Glover.
Girard Hughley
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Yeah right.
You just know he pauses the bit in Lethal Weapon 2 where Patsy Kensit gets em out.
Relax, I’m Martin Riggs.
it must have been the apartheid he suffered in LW when he wanted to go to South Africa that sent him into black supremacy
he’s clearly deluding himself though. it’s impossible to direct a movie while holding a spear and putting a plate in your lip. End OF!!
What, like supporting an apparently
left-wing, excuse me, PC loony-left fascist socialist communist Nazi organisation such as the BBC by posting your comments on their website, thus clearly demonstrating that you actually regard it as worth reading on a regular basis?Reminds me of the inane message board ranting I saw ages ago on IMDB for the film The Orphanage – a Spanish film made in Spain by a Spanish director, using Spanish actors; some yankee shitwit was asking why it wasn’t in English, as *normal* people speak English and moaning that the director was selfish to make it in Spanish and that he couldn’t identify with it because the actors weren’t *normal* people. He then revealed what he meant by ‘normal’ by insisting that it was all some uber left-wing plot to try and make *normal* Americans think that non-English speakers were as ‘good’ as they were…
It takes a special intellect to use the fact that a well known black actor can’t get a film made if there’s too many black people in it as evidence that Enoch was right and the black man has finally got the whip hand over the white man.
Cunts.
Someone needs to explain to matt j that:
A) Black people appear in films because, whether Mr j likes it or not, they do exist in real life, therefore to make a film realist they have to appear in films as well.
B) He, matt j, is a a first class prick.
Coincidentally, thanks to mr Hughley I now know Glover plays footy and even know his position. You learn something new every day.
realistic… damn those forruns coming over here stealing our ‘ic’s.
Brilliant. We all know that:
-Bollywood films set in Asia should have asian heroes in.
-African films set in Africa should have African heroes in.
-American films set in America should have no black people.
FACT!!1
“Girard Hughley” is the sound of someone trying not to vomit by swallowing it, and failing.
Oh. my. fucking. god.
Blimey, they’ll want to run for bloomin’ President next!
This sort of PC-gone mad nonsense is what’s killed the Minstrel industry in the UK. I fail to see the difference between employing black men and unemployed Al Jolson tribute acts in a film about black people.
Black people should concentrate at what they’re good at – looting and running fast, and let white people concentrate on what they’re good at – acting, global hegemony and furious racism.
Relax, I’m Enoch Powell’s gonads.
“I would never give a shred of support, financial or otherwise, to any endeavor from a left-winger like Danny Glover.
Girard Hughley”
Left winger you say? I’ll give you £60m, final offer… okay then, £90m. You drive a hard bargain, £130m.
If Danny Glover has any ambition he will want to play for the greatest side in Europe.
Uh! it’s so unfair! All the other races in the world hate me and I have to be nice to them. I never met a single non-white that I liked and they’re all completely racist. But I’m not allowed to be. I have to completely open and fair, which, of course, I am… BUT THEM? Oh no! You just need to look at them to know that.
Got to agree with this one though:
Does black sell globally?
It depends. If there’s a movie with Halle Berry in it… I’m really up for it.
Eddie Murphy… not so much.
The whole question was designed to illicit this sort of response.
The HYS mods put this one on the board sniggering and nudging one and other and then sat back and waited for the hate to roll in.
Even the “reasonable” posts are either patronising or border line cuntish.
My eyes need washing.
damn PC nonsense. i notice when they made that film “The Queen”, in a handwringing attempt to be inclusive, the actors were not even royals. they had a fucking druggie as the lead
Another response to the same story:
I do not like Samuel L.Jackson, Denzil washington, Morgan freeman or James Earl Jones because they are black, they are great actors, as is De Niro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman et etc etc.
I can’t help thinking he meant to put a full stop rather than a comma after the word ‘black’.
That same poster also managed another wonderfully ambiguous one with:
“In the area where I live…..we are not buying or selling black culture. we are working, paying our bills and raising families”
But I’m sure the HYS mods would never put up a topic purely to stir up the usual rabble. Just take a look at today’s lovely, balanced, in-no-way-predictable topics, such as “Should there be a cap on foreign workers?”.
@ Tom.
Of course there should be a cap on foreign workers- a yellow one with a big star on it.
What about those of mixed race??//?
Tatoo everyone like rainbows. Then we’d all be the same, and simple souls like me would be jolly happy.
Relax – I’m a mongrel. FACT!!1!
Did anybody actually attempt to read what anon. said?
“If this were a white producer trying to get funding for an African film with no African heroes in it, or a Bollywood film with no Asian heroes, or a Chinese film with no Chinese heroes, we wouldn’t be having this debate. How come every race in the world is allowed to be racist except white people? Danny Glover can go to hell and take his film with him. I’m sick of this PC nonsense.”
The “debate” is “is Danny Glover’s movie not being funded because there are not enough white people?” And we probably wouldn’t have that conversation if a white producer made an African film without Africans etc… because it WOULD get funded (see “Windtalkers” with Nicholas Cage playing the Navajo hero). And we also wouldn’t be having this debate because the fact that it is blatantly racist for a person of one race to do a movie about other races but not put them in that movie would probably over shadow it. If Danny Glover were making a movie about Sweden and didn’t include any Swedes etc…, maybe these analogies would make sense outside of HYS. He might as well have just said “If a WHITE producer were making a black face movie, would we be having this discussion?”
if its just about people not going to see it then thats balls as im a terrible racist and would go along with all my terrible racist friends just to heckle… maybe make a night of it anyone want come too?
Wait… is Danny Glover BLACK???
“If this were a white producer trying to get funding for an African film with no African heroes in it, or a Bollywood film with no Asian heroes, or a Chinese film with no Chinese heroes, we wouldn’t be having this debate.”
Is it acceptable, for example, for a Chinese jewess to make a film about a
British moslem man, set in Africa, with an Indian hero (SPOILER: who saves the day, kills the bad guy, defuses the bomb, and shags the girl) funded by whites?
Or do all heros always have to be played by whites, end of?
No. You need an Indian villain too. Only Bollywood gives sufficient eyebrow-training to pull off a script like that.
Nigga please you think a black man can’t do shit in hollywood woithout gettin his ass hauled dwon to the station you trippin fool.
Girard Hughley is a red-faced loon.
His mother told me so.
Not quite sure what Andrew is trying to say here
(see “Windtalkers” with Nicholas Cage playing the Navajo hero).
Not the film I remember, the main protagonist & hero was Private Ben Yahzee played by Adam Beach. A quick IMDB tells us that Adam Beach is of the Objiwa nation ( Chippewa). Not Navajo, I’ll admit, but definitely native American.
Which to my mind makes Andrew a typical HYS non-fact checking, knee jerk reacting platypuses perineum.
Or a big cunt.
“Bank”
Could I just say that I always hated Clive Lloyd, but only because his head was bigger than the Shepherds Bush Empire?
Maybe they could incorporate this issue into the parental advice stuff on the back of DVDs:
This movie contains strong language, scenes of a sexual nature and no less than 8 positive portrayals of minority characters.
This movie has been rated X due to the scene where the white cop takes a bullet for his black partner, who goes on to save the city from a Texan-born, Republican evil genius.
Or something.
Hey Pete, I’ll give you one thing, I’ve never seen Windtalkers. However, have you ever seen a poster, trailer, or movie cover of it? Usually they only picture one person: Nicholas Cage. If they picture two, the second guy is poorly lit and in the background. He’s also the top listed on IMDB cast credits. How could he not be the hero, with that press package?
Even if you won’t allow that, I would like to compliment your “Native Americans, they’re all the same to me” view. Despite the Navajo nation being the second largest Indian tribe with more than double the population of the Chippewa, despite the Navajo nation being located in Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona and much closer to Hollywood than the Chippewa of the Great Lakes region in terms of accessibility, I’m sure they tried real hard to get an authentic actor before giving up on it and just grabbing the first Native American passing by.
Pete and Andrew, it looks suspiciously like you’re trying to have a debate on here, so stop it at once! Not to mention the gratuitous use of wikipedia and petulance. And that it’s not even clear what the fuck you’re arguing about.
If were on to racism in Windtalkers, how about the fact that in the first half of the movie most of the white mid-western buzz-cut-sporting “heroes” spend a good few hours telling the Navajo guy that he looks just like a Nip.
And then, at a key point in the movie “Navajo Guy” realises that they are, in fact, CORRECT! He really, really DOES look like a slitty eyed Jap. And armed with this knowledge he takes the clothes off a Japanese soldier, walks calmly into their camp and NOBODY BATS A SLANTY EYELID! He looks exactly like them! Amazing! Even the Japanese are fooled by this Native American guy standing 4 feet away.
He then becomes best of friends with all the white marine guys, who knew best all along. They stop just short of saying “See, you really can’t tell the difference between your lot” but it’s there, hanging in the air, unspoken.