Posted on 11/09/2010 7:25:37 AM PST by flowerplough
Can anyone name a movie that came out recently starring a black man who wasn't a sociopath? Someone who had a terrific screen presence, like a young Paul Robeson? And he portrayed a character who was complex and fully drawn? Did he respect black women, too?
Anybody see that movie? I didn't. But surely it's out there somewhere, right? An alternative to those Tyler Perry films portraying black men as Satan's gift to black women? But where is it?
Maybe I didn't hear about it because of all the buzz over Perry's "For Colored Girls," which opened Friday and is based on Ntozake Shange's 1975 stage play, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf."
Or maybe I didn't hear about it because I was retching too loudly after seeing "For Colored Girls" - and reading so many inexplicably glowing reviews.
"This movie is powerful," Demetria L. Lucas wrote recently in Essence, the nation's premier magazine for black women. "It is incredible. The performances in it are astonishing, but most of all, this film will leave you lifted."
Me, I thought the movie should have been renamed: "For Black Men Who Have Considered Homicide After Watching Another Perry Movie."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Tyler Perry is an over inflated self absorbed jerk. Tyler Perry’s this and Tyler Perry’s that.
SHUT UP! GO AWAY!
Black America has committed suicide with the aid and goading of the Democrat Party Plantation. How sad.
Newsflash: America has a race problem -- the dominant culture within the black community is one of self hatred, victimization, and hatred of success.
Change that, and you change everything. But leave me out: I'm White, so I've got nothing to do with this.
Can this movie begin to approach the cinematic splendor that was “Stomp The Yard”?
Thanks I needed that laugh.
And let us not forget the timeless and haunting message of “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo”.
Tyler Perry Presents the Tyler Perry Version of the Award-Winning Tyler Perry Production of Tyler Perry’s Tyler Perry, Starring Tyler Perry, Written by Tyler Perry, Makeup by Tyler Perry and Produced by Tyler Perry, Directed by Spike Lee. Forty Acres and a Tyler Perry. Ya Dig ? Sho’ Nuff.
Many Denzel Washington movies fall into that class, although of late, as he's aged and broadened the roles he'll take, he'll occasionally act as a sociopath (American Gangster).
Well that’s the first headline I’ve read in 30 years that included the words Black Men and Homicide where no one was actually killed.
Do you mean, a movie where a black man plays a positive role model? What about Lou Gossett in “Officer and Gentleman”? Or the Morgan Freeman (?) movie about the school principal who carried the baseball bat? Or all those Sidney Poitier movies about the police detective, Tibbs?
“Someone who had a terrific screen presence, like a young Paul Robeson?”
Great... the best he could come up with was a Communist. Let’s hope that Denzel (the best actor out there now, IMHO), does some more films where he isn’t a murderous sociopath (Man on Fire, American Gangster, etc.)
I mentioned Denzel Washington, who usually plays virtuous parts. You mentioned some others. Are you confusing me with the poster I answered?
I’m partial to Lennie James from Jericho and now The Walking Dead.
Best black characters EVER!!!
poor black kid goes to a Catholic school and becomes a Justice of the Supreme Court—after black women try unsuccessfully to destroy him.
Or "Soul Plane."
The Democrat party has been the Party of Slavery™ since its founding two centuries ago.
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