Whats your thoughts on "chitlin circuit" movies, shows?

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I got into a discussion with my girl last night while laying in bed watching her taped recording of the Wendy Williams show where Wendy played a clip about this new movie (Birth of a Nation) coming out about a slavery revolt and how slaves rose up and killed massa. (see below) Clip was good and I had a big smile of my face and yelled out "OSCAR!!!!!...I want to see this movie". She said "please, I'm tired of blacks making movies about slavery, being maids/butlers, civil rights etc" and that nikkas only make these type movies and get mad at white folks, she also said she tired of not seeing more positive black movies and we really need to get over it being mad at white folks. She said you don't see asians or latino movies where they portraying whatever wrongs or derogatory shyt their people went through (if any), only nikkas. I felt some type of way about the topic.

Chitlin circuit movies/shows = anything Tyler Perry, anything about slaves, anything about civil rights movement, Barbershop movies etc.
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Birth Of A Nation's Nate Parker Hopes To Reclaim The Narrative Of American Racism

 

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I've never seen a "Madea" or whatever movie in full in my life never appealed to me at all...

I am, however, a little tired of the narrative arch of most "black" movies that are more series

Starts out when they are young
tons of racism in the middle
overcomes the racism (usually has some scene where the protagonist slams their hand on a table or wall)
triumphs in the end...

I would love to see a more "in depth" movie. Tell me about Benjamin Banneker and how he had REAL interactions with Thomas Jefferson

Edit: All of these "court" movies, tell me about the woman who sued for her freedom and won and helped Massachusetts decide slavery was illegal...Elizabeth Freeman.

Show me more behind the interesting man that was George Washington Carver

If you can create a fictional movie about white people in Germany killing Hitler (Inglorious b*stards) why not make a fictional movie about black women during the 1960's being badasses?

Tell me about Phillis Wheatley the first black woman with a book published who wrote a poem and read for George Washington before his presidency

Shyt, make a modern movie with YOUNG black women (in their 20's) doing something good/cool/exciting/science fiction based rather than the same old "single woman can't find a man" or "working woman too successful for love" tropes we get in every Kevin Hart Maurice Chestnut movie

 

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I've never seen a "Madea" or whatever movie in full in my life never appealed to me at all...

I am, however, a little tired of the narrative arch of most "black" movies that are more series

Starts out when they are young
tons of racism in the middle
overcomes the racism (usually has some scene where the protagonist slams their hand on a table or wall)
triumphs in the end...

I would love to see a more "in depth" movie. Tell me about Benjamin Banneker and how he had REAL interactions with Thomas Jefferson

Show me more behind the interesting man that was George Washington Carver

If you can create a fictional movie about white people in Germany killing Hitler (Inglorious b*stards) why not make a fictional movie about black women during the 1960's being badasses?

Tell me about Phillis Wheatley the first black woman with a book published who wrote a poem and read for George Washington before his presidency

Shyt, make a modern movie with YOUNG black women (in their 20's) doing something good/cool/exciting/science fiction based rather than the same old "single woman can't find a man" or "working woman too successful for love" tropes we get in every Kevin Hart Maurice Chestnut movie

Yea, this types stuff