Spike Lee Goes in: "Django is disrespectful to my ancestors".....

[88m3]

Those films were cheap to make.

precious was a 10 million dollar film. Monsters ball was only 4 million.

Amistad was a 36 million dollar film and it only took in 44 million.

By the same coin Schindler's list was 21 million film and it made 321 million.

The numbers speak for themselves.

Movie Rev - cost= $ %

Precious 63m - 10M = 53m GM = 84%
Monsters ball 44m- 4m= 40m GM= 90%
Amistad 44M-36m= 8M GM=18%
Schindler's List 321m -21M= 300M GM=93%

Black movies simply have a limited audience, domestic and world-wide, and they need to be cheap to have a good gross margin. In order for a cheap film to make a smash, it has to be some controversial drama that gets hype by word of mouth. Usually, I feel they are exploitation films.

Amistad was a big epic movie with a considerable budget, but look at the return on investment. It wasn't worth the time or money to make that movie.


Lucas put 58 million into Red Tails (much of it was his own money) and it only made 49 million. I watched it and it wasn't a that bad of a movie. Was it as bad as Transformers? no way. People in the south aren't going to watch that shyt.

fukk off

 

[theworldismine13]

(Mack Lesson’s Radio) Episode #386-”Tariq Nasheed’s Review Of Django Unchained” « A1HipHop 4 Years And Running

This is a good review of the movie

 

[VerbalIntercourse]

What you call nepotism is a historical, not natural phenomenon with respect to present-day racial categories. Before Irish and Italians and Jews were white, white "nepotism" was not extended to them. Similarly, white people being unable to relate to Black protagonists is also a historically-contingent phenomenon. It can and should change.

Just saying race is real as if that contradicts or dismisses its social and cultural valences (in this context, what you call race is indeed a construct) won't get you anywhere. Of course it's real- it's not biological, though, which is what you're trying to imply.

Jews, Italians and Irish were quickly assimilated into American culture. It just proves the power of nepotism. Sure, in the beginning they were different. They spoke a different language, practiced Catholicism or judiasm, and looked a bit different. When assimilation stripped all of that away, they were just whites.


I come from an immigrant family, and I see a sort of similar story. We aren't consider true Americans, but.. I have noticed that all of us American born Asians seem to hang out. Whereas the Foreign born stick to their own ethnicity, If you look at crew of American born Asians, you will see Chinese, Filipinos and Vietnamese all hanging out and being friends. My bestfriend is cambodian. his wife is Loashin. My wife is Chinese. The assimilation process stripped us away of our cultural and linguistic barriers, and it made us closer to each other in a similar manner to the example of white americans.

All these genetic tests may just be fun and games, but I'm plotted very close to Cambodians and Vietnamese on All tests. Is is a coincidence that all my friends are cambodian and vietnamese? Is it a coincidence that, out of all my connections on 23andme, my wife is ranked as having the closet genetic similarity to me? What else but nepotism can explain this?

 

[jwinfield]

Antoine Fuqua Defends Quentin Tarantino Against Spike Lee's 'Django' Criticisms - The Hollywood Reporter

But Antoine Fuqua, the director behind Training Day who says he knows both Tarantino and Lee but is not close friends with either one, said Lee aired his concerns in wrong way.

"That’s just not the way you do things," said Fuqua, speaking on the sidelines of the 17th Capri, Hollywood Film Festival. "If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don’t do it publicly."

"I don’t think Quentin Tarantino has a racist bone in his body," he said. "Besides, I’m good friends with [Django Unchained star] Jamie Foxx and he wouldn’t have anything to do with a film that had anything racist to it."

Fuqua continued: "I haven’t seen the film, so I can’t speak about it specifically, but we’re supposed to find some truth in films and if you set a film in the 1850s, you’re going to hear the word '******,' because that’s the way they spoke then, and you’re going to discuss slavery because that was part of the reality," he said.

"I want my kids to hear those kinds of words in the right context, so that they’ll know that language is not OK," Fuqua said.

 

[Rapmastermind]

ARMOND WHITE: DJANGO IS JUNK AND TRIVIALIZES THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY

Still Not a Brother | City Arts | City Arts

 

[Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson]

Jammy Fotts is a raciss and so is dis moovy.

 

[theworldismine13]

AFP: Danny Glover's slavery film lacked "white heroes", producers said

 

[The Message]

^^^^ Damn shame that people are in denial about this "white hero" theme.

 

[NYC Rebel]

^^^^ Damn shame that people are in denial about this "white hero" theme.

Yeah....I sucked my teeth at the "inner turmoil" Jamie's white partner went through.

 

[Rapmastermind]

Review coming today. Let me just say Spike had a point without even seeing it.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

ARMOND WHITE: DJANGO IS JUNK AND TRIVIALIZES THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY

Still Not a Brother | City Arts | City Arts

Armond white might be the worst movie reviewer in the history of cinema

 

[Ziggiy]

That first movie, 'Sankofa' is fukked up.

I saw Sankofa when I was 11 years old. shyt had me hating White people for a minute...

 

[Type Username Here]

Review coming today. Let me just say Spike had a point without even seeing it.

Would love to read it.

But it's obvious by your posting history in this thread and others that you went into it with a bias.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Would love to read it.

But it's obvious by your posting history in this thread and others that you went into it with a bias.

"spike had a point without even seeing it"

 

[Won Won]

Dude brought up an Armond White review hahahaha