An odd thing I’ve learned: If a movie has black, indian, asian white, you name it, actors in it, race is pretty much irrelevant regarding whether I’m going to like the movie. But if the entire cast is black, with maybe a token white person, I know I’m not going to like it.
It’s not that I’m racist. It’s that the movie’s sensibilities are based on a culture different than mine. i.e. it’s just not interesting. And if everything was the same, except the actors are white, it would be the same thing. That is, the all black cast and cultural baseline for the movie go hand in hand. And it’s never a culture I can relate to. So the movie is not a positive entertainment experience.
i.e. as usual, it’s not race. It’s culture.
You want to talk racism? Hollywood’s got it in spades.
John Woo, Tsui Hark, and Jackie Chan knew how to make movies in Hong Kong that were hits around the world. Sold well to people in countries that did not have Asian majorities. Plenty of non-Asians enjoyed the films.
In the 1990s Hollywood (Turner and Mirimax) bought up distribution rights, hacked and slashed the films down, rescored them, etc for US audience. Also as 1997’s handover of Hong Kong loomed, the A-list of Chinese cinema started to look Westward.
But they couldn’t make a movie with their Asian leads here. Had to counterbalance the Asian guy with a black white white actor who buddied up (or was the nemesis).
The formula didn’t work as well. Eventually many of them returned to make films in China.