What is and is not a Black film?

[theflyest]

Y’all making this harder then it needs to be.

For me, a “black” film is a movie directed specifically towards the black community.

If you have a movie with a couple of black leads, but it appeals to the masses, I don’t view it as a black movie.

Sometimes, you have movies that accomplish both.

 

[Cuban Pete]

I wanted to make this thread when I saw pitch black, fast and the furious, and walking tall under black movies on my on demand, along with a gang of other flicks that literaly only had one black character and generic non black centric plots. I guess so but its not what it is in my definition, but then what would be 'white movies', just white folk doing regular shyt?

 

[CrimsonTider]

Not imo. It's one of the films that sparked the discussion on the pod, and a lot of them said yes because it had 2 black leads. I disagree. I know it's a movie black folks love, but there's nothing black about it except the lead actors. The story isn't unique to our experience, the cast isn't majority black, nor the writing or directing. It's as black as any other movie with a black main character, just happens to be a buddy cop joint with 2 of them in that one

Y’all making this harder then it needs to be.

For me, a “black” film is a movie directed specifically towards the black community.

If you have a movie with a couple of black leads, but it appeals to the masses, I don’t view it as a black movie.

Sometimes, you have movies that accomplish both.

Bad boys is a black movie