Deep Truth from George Lucas.....The role of white actors in black movies - RED TAILS

[franksterr]

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/j67j6n/george-lucas

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/j67j6n/george-lucas

In an interview with TheDaily Show's Jon Stewart on Monday night, Lucas was frank about the trouble he had getting the film made—in part, he said, because the studios weren't willing to finance a film without a white protagonist as an anchor.....
Lucas goes on to explain that major studios don't believe films with majority black casts do well in foreign markets......
The issue here is as political as it is economic—the white protagonists' role in mostly black films is generally to act as a redemptive vehicle for the white audience, allowing them to believe that in another place, at another time, they would have been just as righteous.

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2012/01/george-lucas-hollywood-didnt-want-fund-my-mostly-black-film-red-tails

[Wahalla]

I thought red tails was a comic book.....Dont take that to be negative i like comic books....But that is the genre. The Commando Comics from my youth.. Aucteng shouting cliched bad Nazis

.. Glory irritated me... The black interlectual with glasses who was shocked by rascism... the peadophilic grand father that Morgan Freeman played...The liberal whites who saved us ?????????


And i agree with George Lucas in terms of dynamic Red Tails was a better film than Glory. the characters were better!!!! it didnt pretend to be other than what it was....it was a 1950's -1960s war film...much in spirit of the black and white films that britian made post war...."Did the day go well" " the one that got away" " the dam busters".... The password is courage" "ill meet by moonlight" Appointment in London" Simple message the brave soldiers fight the evil Nazi...I was talking about these kind of films this morning with a London Cabbie!


Another thing that is missed and i tis what made the film for me.. it was David Olwoylo first american film and he out shone the black yankis!!!!!!

Glory as Lucas put it portrayed the black guys as cannon fodder. But that was what they were all soldiers from the irish pulled off the boats and given a gun without training..Cannon Fodder....Glory was preachy... liberal... trying to prove that they are "actors".... (And Mathew Brodrick irritates me after all he did kill that person with his car in Ireland...!!!)

Denzel is one of the few stars who can act.. Tjhe Scott Brothers love him (.. in some of the better roles that are non black specific role ).... look at his role in Man on Fire... in the book which i love it is a white character, again he plaued the same character in the Equalisers...

[franksterr]

Banzai!!!!

True words.

What I am wondering about is if as George Lucas implies (or was it the writer) role of whites in many of these movies is suppose to be redemptive for white audiences (movie goers), then it begs the question what effect is the buffoonery and servility of black actors roles supposed to have on black audiences ?