Why/How Did The Movie 'Save The Last Dance (2001)' Become So Successful?

[Kyle C. Barker]

White people in black areas/urban surroundings was a lot more of a novelty back in 99-2003.

Eminem really came up at the right time. Come to think about it 8 mile was popular around the same time.

 

[Starboy52]

Julia Stiles was one of Hollywood's it girls at the time and it came out around the start of the Dance Movie craze with You Got Served and Step Up coming out in the years following to build on that. It was just the perfect storm of right time, right place for it to work.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Also was there a romeo and huliet vibe to this movie? I can't really remember it too much but if that storyline was there that would also explain its success

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Julia Stiles was one of Hollywood's it girls at the time and it came out around the start of the Dance Movie craze with You Got Served and Step Up coming out in the years following to build on that. It was just the perfect storm of right time, right place for it to work.

But mostly this lol. Forgot about the dance movies

 

[(Lean Ambrose)]

I was 11 years old when this came out...
It was a completely different time back then...
Wasn't no social media and shyt...
You had to be watching daytime t.v. to see sistas talk greezy about us back then...
I was indifferent to it when I was younger but now as a grown man I fukk with for nostalgias sake...

 

[BlackDiBiase]

because the movie was dope as hell, a real coming of age classic

 

[(Lean Ambrose)]

This movie birthed most of the black twitter feminists we see today

No it didn't...

 

[MalikX]

I think her being a bit above average was a perfect fit for her kind of character.

If she was the pretty white girl then I think it would have changed things.

It wasn't what she looked like or the fact that she was white was what was important, but her character and the type of person she was.

I guess.....Julia Stiles just extra plain to me and there's no way I'm giving up Bianca Lawson for Julia

Ali Larter had that slightly trashy/trailer park vibe to her. I could believe her being in the South Side Chicago in the ghetto chilling.

On the side note, the Black dude in this movie, Sean Patrick Thomas went to my high school. I met him at Walgreens once. dikk head to the fullest degree

 

[macadomusic]

Its was a well directed movie, good music , and was taboo. The fact the black dude wasn't a thug made it more digestible in some weird way., Plus the stereotypes were front and canter but obviously from a white persons pov. Kerry Washington was cringeworthy with the stereotypes. "Hul up , hul up, hul up,"

 

[(Lean Ambrose)]

White people in black areas/urban surroundings was a lot more of a novelty back in 99-2003.

Eminem really came up at the right time. Come to think about it 8 mile was popular around the same time.

Yep...
I don't know if your American or how old you are but I remember from about 99-06 the "Wigger" era was heavy as fukk during that time...

 

[Blessings]

Julia Stiles looks like Heath Ledger's little brother They couldn't have gotten a badder becky. Was Ali Larter booked that summer? That hoe done had like 4 or 5 interracial roles.

are you serious lmaooooooo?

 

[MalikX]

But mostly this lol. Forgot about the dance movies

These cacs really thought nikkas was in the ghetto dancing all day

I never been to a dance off in my life.

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

Movie is so 90s in hindsight

And corny

Movie came out in 01 tho.

That Othello movie is another movie where a black dude was smashing some white chick.

 

[MalikX]

are you serious lmaooooooo?

House in the Haunted Hill
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It's probably more too

I didn't catch all the sexual comments from Taye Diggs in HOTHH when I was younger. I saw it again later and Taye definitely hit that after the movie

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

There may have been sjw and feminist back then but they were a small minority that nobody paid any attention too. They were basically like a little kid back then, Nobody paid them any mind and just let them spout their little shyt without no effect, until their ass grew up and now we have today