Posted on 12/29/2012 12:48:49 PM PST by drewh
The Boston Globe's review of "Django Unchained" stands as a prime example of stellar movie criticism. Critic Wesley Morris clearly spent hours crafting his thoughts, likely in tribute to the film's artistic excellence. Yet Morris' column contains a paragraph that could be considered even uglier than the violence pulsating through director Quentin Tarantino's genre mashup.
Samuel L. Jackson plays crusty, waxen Stephen as a vision of depraved loyalty and bombastic jive that cuts right past the obvious association with Uncle Tom. The movie is too modern for what Jackson is doing to be limited to 1853. He’s conjuring the house Negro, yes, but playing him as though he were Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes or Herman Cain or Michael Steele, men whom some black people find embarrassing.
What a loaded last sentence.
It's a safe bet the writer includes himself in that category. The men in question are certainly very different. Thomas is a cool, calculated legal eagle, while Cain is a charismatic talker with great business savvy. Steele is a political animal, someone well versed in the ebb and flow of the news cycle. And Keyes is a social conservative of the first order.
What does their skin color have to do with it? Tarantino isn't directly calling the four men house Negroes. That's Morris' interpretation. And it's a rather distasteful one
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It's a racist thing that neither Morris nor 0bama would understand.
Oh no you didn’t! Spot On, and well said.
I find Michael Steele pretty damn embarrassing, and I am not Black.
Any black person who opposes the eternal expansion of the Holy Mother Welfare State is apparently a House Negro by default.
Seems to me the true house negroes are the ones that are completely subserviant to their DemocRAT masters.
As if combining the IQs of the entire MSM would reach a small percentage of Justice Thomas.
Journalists do what they do because they are as stupid as politicians, but are not quite as putrid and immoral enough yet to rise to pure excrement status.
Sure, and the likes of Barry “Harvard” Obama and company are pure field hand.
As far as I know, any ‘journalist’ toting the Leftist line is the one on the plantation.
Somebody should make a game show. The game show could be called Supreme Court Justice or Junior High School Chick? Then various opinions could be read aloud by the panel which were written by Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and a junior high school chick. The contestants would have to figure out which ones were which.
Bingo!
>Samuel L. Jackson plays crusty, waxen Stephen as a vision of depraved loyalty and bombastic jive that cuts right past the obvious association with Uncle Tom. The movie is too modern for what Jackson is doing to be limited to 1853. He’s conjuring the house Negro, yes, but playing him as though he were Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes or Herman Cain or Michael Steele, men whom some black people find embarrassing.<
Methinks little Wesley doth protest too much.
Bam is the top one in that category.
Oh well, censored again. I don’t think the N word is racist, just descriptive.
The Liberals love to hate themselves and worship tribal cultures that for ten of thousands of years, still starve.
You cannot fix suicidal.
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