Posted on 03/20/2024 2:07:53 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A satire film intended to send a provocative message about race relations bombed at the box office on its opening weekend.
Focus Features' "The American Society of Magical Negroes" took the 9th spot at the box office last weekend, grossing $1,304,270 while playing in 1,147 locations around the U.S.
The film centers around a young man who is recruited to be part of a "society" where Black people use their magical powers to make White people comfortable, so that they don't hurt Black people.
The movie's title plays off a trope of Black characters in films who are set up to help White characters in their pursuits, like Michael Clarke Duncan’s character in "The Green Mile," according to a review from the Los Angeles Times.
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I don’t remember that one. They smeared Rush so many times it’s hard to remember them all. Rush always knew how to handle seminar callers.
A movie about magical negroes using their powers to stop black people from hurting other black people might be worth watching.
WHAT?!?!?!?!
You can't be serious!
Imagine, expecting people to act like adults and take responsibility for their actions and lives.
The very idea.........SMH
What if they are wrong?
And that's not taking into account that blacks are vastly outnumbered. They comprise 13% of the population which is being outnumbered about 7:1.
Not good odds when the sides are so easy to identify from a distance.
White people are the most dangerous. They invented Hydrogen Bombs and effective ways to deliver them. The Chinese, however, used Germ Warfare to steal our elections and pick our leader so I have to credit them with that.
[This kind of talk leads to genocide]
Luther launched a polemic against vagrants in his 1528 preface to Liber Vagatorum, saying that the Jews had contributed Hebrew words as a main basis of the Rotwelsch cryptolect. He warned in the admonitory preface Christians not to give them alms as it was, in his opinion, to forsake the truly poor.[232][233]
Luther spoke out against the Jews in Saxony, Brandenburg, and Silesia.[234] Josel of Rosheim, the Jewish spokesman who tried to help the Jews of Saxony in 1537, later blamed their plight on “that priest whose name was Martin Luther—may his body and soul be bound up in hell!—who wrote and issued many heretical books in which he said that whoever would help the Jews was doomed to perdition.”[235] Josel asked the city of Strasbourg to forbid the sale of Luther’s anti-Jewish works: they refused initially but did so when a Lutheran pastor in Hochfelden used a sermon to urge his parishioners to murder Jews.[234] Luther’s influence persisted after his death. Throughout the 1580s, riots led to the expulsion of Jews from several German Lutheran states.[236]
“This kind of talk leads to genocide”
I wonder if the real purpose is provoking whites to say/do racist stuff in response, so it can then be echoed ad nauseam (with a side “benefit” of helping little minds see racism everywhere).
Some groups might even “invest” in such a film as a political expense, not caring if it failed economically. A recent SCOTUS revolved around government manipulation of information to “help” the public.
On the other hand, it’s billed as a satire, so maybe the whole concept is meant to be a howler.
“What if they are wrong?”
Then white people (whatever that means) pose no danger to them and can be left alone.
The implicit moral of that movie (I only saw the trailer) seems to be that even the “good ones” hate your guts.
Fun movie. I would love to see hollyweird remake it.
RE: anti-white statement.
May I blurt out....
That’s racisssssss.
“The film centers around a young man who is recruited to be part of a “society” where Black people use their magical powers to make White people comfortable, so that they don’t hurt Black people.”
Do those magical powers include making blacks more law abiding, less criminal, more hard working, smarter, less entitled?
Now, employing those would really be beneficial.
They might eventually find out.
RE: Wizard of Oz.
I happened to be watching the Merv Griffin Show (live show) in the late 1970s. His staff didn’t properly brief him and he innocently talked with some actors who told him they were part of an all black remake of the Wizard of Oz to be called The Wiz.
Griffin looked ashen and then angry. “No, no. You can’t do that. You’ll be ruining a classic. There’s no movie improvement you could make on the Wizard of Oz. You can’t be allowed to do this.” He was serious.
After commercials he had calmed down and tried to tolerate it, grudgingly but didn’t end with “so, folks get your tickets for this brand new movie” as usual.
Apparently this ate up $125m or more for production and marketing and will make $5m max back. WTG libs.
Love Zulu and Zulu Dawn. Yeah, I saw NP on TCM and DVRed it.
They would get it so wrong, it would be a comedy.
Especially the 3 that robbed the Wells Fargo Bank in Houston.....
11-—12—16 years old-—ALL black.
She was ahead of her time with that one considering where the military is nowadays.
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