"The Butler"..starring Forest Whitaker-- TRAILER

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Actor Henry Lennix (Get On The Bus, The Matrix Reloaded) took a huge shyt on this movie after reading the script.. dude called the movie 'historical porn' LOL..

"I think about it every day and any time that a role is offered, and believe me lots of crummy roles are offered. But at this point people know better than to mess with me with a lot of these things. For example Lee Daniels sent me the script for that film he’s making now, The Butler, about the black butler at the White House. I read five pages of this thing and could not go any further. I tried to read more of it, and I’m not a soft spoken guy, but it was such an appalling mis-direction of history in terms of taking an actual guy who worked at the White House. But then he “******fies” it. He "******s" it up and he gives people these, stupid, luddite, antediluvian ideas about black people and their roles in the historical span in the White House and it becomes… well... historical porn. I refused."

Well that’s not good.

"And people want to see these images so they’ll say things like: “It’s a very difficult movie to look at, but it’s great movie.” That’s a contradiction in terms. That’s a paradox. It can’t be that it’s a great movie, but it’s difficult to look at. You know what I mean? (laughs) Why would you put these images out there? But clearly the critics, many of them, love to see this kind of material and love to see us in these types of roles."

Because it feeds into…

"Because it feeds into the great lie that is being perpetrated by the most important medium, the most powerful export that the United States has to offer which is entertainment. The most powerful tool that they have and it has kept us in a place, men in dresses and things, raping their daughters and things. While any sort of aberrant behavior happens in any community, it has become normative in black cinema that we are these bestial, deprived people, and I refuse to play with that."

Well just keep fighting the good fight.

"I’ll never take part in it. They can kiss my ass (laughs). But it’s not going to happen."
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http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowan...-on-lee-daniels-the-butler-and-it-aint-pretty
 
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Bruce LeRoy said:
Actor Henry Lennix (Get On The Bus, The Matrix Reloaded) took a huge shyt on this movie after reading the script.. dude called the movie 'historical porn' LOL..
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As disappointing as this film looks, it's always nice to know that there are at least still SOME bruthas against this c00n shyt.
 
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MAking the kids and folks feel good about being "the Help". Be proud to be in your place....boy.

Ain't enough positive black lead action and adventure films out there for me to feel good about being the fuucking help.
 
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This is more evidence of what happens when you're in an industry where you're not in control.
 
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After seeing the picture with Oprah and Terrence Howard this movie is the exact opposite of what I thought it was gonna be about. But though I am tired of seeing us in the servant type roles this movie looks like it will be good and I am definitely interested in seeing it.
 
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Tariq Nasheed mentioned this movie about a year ago when the movie was first advertised.. Don't know if this was the episode where he mentions it or if it was on ustream.

 
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Out of all the unsung blacks in american history, why focus on this guy who was a servant so what if it was in the white house
my aunt worked in the white house under the bush adminstration, its just a muthafukking job
why doesn't Marcus Garvey, Noble Drew Ali, the gawd Fredrick Douglas, why the fukk they ain't got movies
Fredrick Douglas autobiography should be a requirement in all American schools, shyt is the most heart wrenching and inspirational shyt I have ever read
Spike Lee could made this shyt in the nineties, with Clarence Williams the Third playing the old Douglas, shyt he already had the hair style
 
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