Will Black Entertainment ever move out of the DARK AGES???

[Formerly Black Trash]

Roughly twenty five years ago, the culture chose to run with criminality featured over creativity.

In the past, George Jefferson owned a series of laundromats, Fred Sanford operated a junkyard, Bill Cosby was
a gym teacher and a doctor, Martin was a radio host, Carl Winslow was a cop.

Now, some of the most-watched series on tv the past five years have featured Black men relegated
to just one industry: the drug trade.

We've fallen and we can't get up.

"Lucious Lyon" - Former drug dealer turned Hip Hop mogul on EMPIRE

"James "Ghost" St. Patrick" - Drug Kingpin/Club owner/Governor candidate - POWER

"Tariq St. Patrick" - College student/University drug dealer - POWER BOOK 2

"Franklin" - 80s/90s Los Angeles drug/crack dealer - SNOWFALL

"Bumpy Johnson" - Mid 20th Century Harlem drug kingpin - GODFATHER OF HARLEM

Boardwalk Empire
Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Sons of Anarchy

 

[feelosofer]

How are you going to complain about Black entertainment being in the dark ages when any attempts to move it forward get criticized and derided. How many threads on this very site keep pining for entertainment to go back to the 1980's and 1990's.

Any attempt to go against the grain or attack the subject matter in a non conventional way is 'appeasing white people' or 'only for the liberal black bourgeoisie'

The only shows people really like on here are the same old gangsta shows wrapped in a new veneer.

 

[Hoodoo Child]

Maybe we peaked?. The human mind has a limit breh.

I wouldn't say Black entertainment has 'peaked', more so the people who's in charge decides wants "hot" or not. Don't get it twisted tho, there's still alot of black indie filmmakers out here putting out good material.

 

[Mook]

I think the fact that this generation has more mixed group of friends is the problem. Hanging with white people just brings you down.

 

[BlackMajik]

why can't we have an all or majority black Sci-Fi movie or series?

THIS!!!

Some people in here acting stupid tho

Btw I salute Will Smith for trying to do the Black Sci-Fi thing with After Earth but that movie ended up being trash imo. From what I heard Will used M. Night Shylaman as a scapegoat for that failure

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Boardwalk Empire
Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Sons of Anarchy

OK, I'll bite with white comparisons justification.

Then, for purposes of variety, where are the versions of these top shows with black male leads?

Young Sheldon
Bull
Magnum PI
Blue Bloods
FBI
FBI Most Wanted
The Good Doctor
The Blacklist
Game of Thrones
Succession

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

OK, I'll bite with white comparisons justification.

Then, for purposes of variety, where are the versions of these top shows with black male leads?

Young Sheldon
Bull
Magnum PI
Blue Bloods
FBI
FBI Most Wanted
The Good Doctor
The Blacklist
Game of Thrones
Succession

We need a Black version of every show?

Moving the goal posts

I don't care if a show is moral, I care if it has good writing

 

[The_Sheff]

why can't we have an all or majority black Sci-Fi movie or series?

Right, im tired of hood shyt. Im about over it as i am slave movies.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Right, im tired of hood shyt. Im about over it as i am slave movies.

But everyone draws the line at Slavery when we get bags of hood movies annually.

 

[BlackMajik]

But everyone draws the line at Slavery when we get bags of hood movies annually.

What major hood movies have come out recently?

 

[Rekkapryde]

What major hood movies have come out recently?

speaking in general.

point is we need to diversify period.

even though I don't watch the shyt, that Bridgerton joint is at least something new/creative.


I got some pitches....

- a tv show about a group of black people who run a popular website.
- another one about a group of black execs running a billion dollar company and the politics/antics behind that.

- black future utopia where they have to fight off the evil rabid cavemongers (who happen to look like cacs) after an expirement hundreds of years ago to wipe out black people failed and it fukked them over instead turning them into neanderthal savages who prey on the black utopian society.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

What major hood movies have come out recently?

Right
Nikkas saying shyt just to say it

Right now we have an overabundance of upper class yaaaaas shyt

I want regular blue collar shyt
I want hood shyt

 

[havoc]

Links?

Checkout Amazon and search black mythology

Heres a link to an black owned comic books:
African Superhero Comics, Graphic Novels & Animation | YouNeek Studios

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

speaking in general.

point is we need to diversify period.

even though I don't watch the shyt, that Bridgerton joint is at least something new/creative.


I got a pitch....a group of black people who run a popular website.

So no examples..got cha

 

[Rekkapryde]

So no examples..got cha

Will's movie ain't a major motion picture either, it's going to a streaming service.

So do we need to go down the list of black shows on streaming services with a lot of similar shyt going on?