Spin:Do any decent sci fi &/or thought provoking films with an all black cast exist?

[Tom]

Name em brehs

or one with at least 3 main or supporting characters who are black??


Bio films like Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" don't count. (very thought provoking but its a biographical film)

By thought provoking I mean films that are a mind fukk but aren't also hood flix, "Fresh" for example was thought provoking, but it doesn't qualify because its also a "hood" movie.


I guess Eve's bayou would qualify right?


it's kinda cray that all we make are romantic comedies and hood flix

 

[MidniteJay]

None that I know of in the 2000s, much less with Sci-fi.

I mean with sci-fi you're gonna have to have most of them be white. I prefer it this way because I'd hate for them to cast black folks setting off a plot that could have been easily avoided and getting a lot people murked.

When Sci-fi films cast a black dude their usually the ones with common sense.

Example, Deep Blue Sea with LL Cool J's and Samuel L. Jackson characters all like when that dumb over ambitious scientist bytch got her team of cacs to make giant sharks smarter

 

[Tom]

I think "I am Legend" should qualify as a black film/cast even though theres just one black person, and a Spanish broad.....theres literally no one else in that film except zombies/vampires (or whatever the fuk they are)

 

[Un-AmericanDreamer]

The Matrix

 

[Tom]

The Matrix

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Can you even name one movie with an ALL black cast that didn't suck? let alone a scifi/thought provoking film. I mean, why does that even matter?

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

But, as far as scifi writers go:

Octavia E. Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Came in here to say I am Legend

 

[Tom]

So basically African Americans portrayal in films isn't really that much different than what it was in the film "Birth of a Nation"

 

[BossIAm]

There are a few out there but you never hear about them as they do not go mainstream or get attention ike white films. I kind of do my best to hunt down mainly independent movies with mostly or all black casts.

Check...

Medicine For Melancholy
[ame=http://youtu.be/ID51kpZ9iK4]Medicine for Melancholy - Official Trailer - YouTube[/ame]

There is another good one that blew my fukking mind but I cant remember it. When it hits me I will post it as everyone should see it.

 

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[trick]

So basically African Americans portrayal in films isn't really that much different than what it was in the film "Birth of a Nation"

Man fukk Birth of a Nation. My high school film teacher told us that it was a classic in film-making before he showed it to us...some dude ended up throwing a orange at him.

 

[Tom]

Man fukk Birth of a Nation. My high school film teacher told us that it was a classic in film-making before he showed it to us...some dude ended up throwing a orange at him.

from my understanding i think it was the first full length motion picture ever, I could be wrong tho, but I think that's why its held in such high regard


film is racist as fuk tho


Did u know that it was actually screened at the White House and the president at the time enjoyed it and claimed it was an accurate portrayal of blacks


racism was so nonchalant back in the day its cray

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

from my understanding i think it was the first full length motion picture ever, I could be wrong tho, but I think that's why its held in such high regard


film is racist as fuk tho


Did u know that it was actually screened at the White House and the president at the time enjoyed it and claimed it was an accurate portrayal of blacks


racism was so nonchalant back in the day its cray

Did you know our presidents used to own slaves, racism was so nonchalant

 

[jwinfield]

Did u know that it was actually screened at the White House and the president at the time enjoyed it and claimed it was an accurate portrayal of blacks


racism was so nonchalant back in the day its cray

Yeah, Wilson was a fukking racist.

Man fukk Birth of a Nation. My high school film teacher told us that it was a classic in film-making before he showed it to us...some dude ended up throwing a orange at him.

The intent and message of the film is awful of course, but it's considered groundbreaking in some of its techniques.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation

The Birth of a Nation began filming in 1914 and pioneered such camera techniques as the use of panoramic long shots, the iris effects, still-shots, night photography, panning camera shots, and a carefully staged battle sequence with hundreds of extras made to look like thousands. It also contains many new artistic techniques, such as color tinting for dramatic purposes, building up the plot to an exciting climax, dramatizing history alongside fiction, and featuring its own musical score written for an orchestra.