Why don't you explain how my position is close minded and hypocritical if you're going to make that claim? Making an accusation like that without backing it up means nothing. I don't see what's so confusing. No, the word "exploit" isn't negative on its own, and I didn't see any negative stereotypes being perpetuated in the movie(The movie was about slavery though, that means it had a built-in excuse to depict blacks as slaves, c00ns, ect). At the same time, it's a movie that obviously exploits slavery. That's not me bellyaching, that's me stating a fact. You're the one who's bytching. What's your problem with me stating that the movie exploits slavery?
Well obviously I don't agree with you. In fact, this is the dumbest shyt I've heard in awhile. This is part of the reason why I decided not to support the movie. This is also the reason why I'm stressing the fact that the movie exploits slavery. People like you are dangerously ignorant. "movies like Django keep our history alive".
That comment is so ignorant and stupid it's sad. 1st of all, Django isn't "our history", it's a fake made up story that was made into a Hollywood movie. 2nd, the only "black" history that white people will acknowledge is slavery. They rewrite ad white-wash our history when it comes to everything but slavery. This is why you will start to hear te same stories about slavery, MLK, Benjamin Banneker, ect that you hear every "black history" month. 3rd, while you're right when you say that whites can't even be open and honest about this country's history of oppressing black people, you're wrong in thinking that BS Hollywood movies like Django encourage whites to change. If anything, movies like Django give whites an excuse to continue downplaying slavery, the effects of slavery that can still be felt today, and the current institutional racism that continues to oppress us today. Movies like Django don't help, they hurt. It eases the guilt of liberal white racists, and perpetuates the victimhood mentality of te overt white racists. Again, Django is a fake made up movie not real history.Acknowledging that the movie exploits slavery is pretty important. You want to downplay, dismiss, and refuse to acknowledge that fact because you're a weak minded dishonest p*ssy who's scared of the truth. I clearly said that QT could have made a non-profit documentary if he wanted to do a project about slavery that wasn't exploitative. You can't even read. Saying that Django exploits slavery is a fact, how can the argument for saying that be weak? Django isn't based on real life stories or events, it's a made up story. QT deliberately used slavery as the backdrop of a film that was made purely for profit. There's no getting around this, stop ducking and dodging the truth.
Edit- To that other clown, I'm not going to waste my time reading that. My response, you're an idiot.
What? If anything I asked for consistency between this and IB
It has perfectly everything to do with this movie.Again there are plenty of slave movies about us and we get plenty of us playing slaves, maids, and "oh yes massa" roles how many times do you see us as pharaohs,kings, royalty, at the peak of civilization? If QT really wanted to take a step in the right direction he would have done a movie like that. I don't see anything different between this and The Help. Is "The Help" a step in the right direction too?
although I disagree with him I still think that's a better stance than saying "black people movies don't sell, so I won't make one" which is what the rest of Hollywood says.
