These next 3 points are really gonna hurt, Buddy.
Captain America fought Nazis.
Superman and Muhammad Ali fought against the KKK.
Magneto and Professor X were originally based on Malcolm X and MLK according to Stan Lee…effectively making Mutants…Black people.
Comics have always tried to reflect the underbelly of America, this is no different.
Suck it up or go cry in your mom’s basement.
@AtlantisFell i went even deeper and majority of his highest ratings are told from a white male perspective versus anything that doesn’t look like him are extremely low.
OH SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!
I'm so sick of everything being a fucking pity party! "He providing jobs" "She providing representation"...IS THE FUCKING PRODUCT GOOD OR NOT?!?! We expected to support any and everything for every reason except it being good and I am OVER IT!!!!
Tyler Perry makes ghetto bullshit slop and sells it to Black audiences because he knows a large portion of that audience will reliably consume it. People frame that as him “catering to Black people,” when a lot of the time it feels more like he’s insulting the black audience’s intelligence by assuming stereotypes, melodrama, hyper-familiarity and hollow writing are enough
A Black filmmaker who makes genuinely excellent work without leaning on those crutches is naturally going to attract serious film audiences outside the Black community too, including white audiences. Then people lazily reverse engineer that success and claim the work must be “for white people” or “highbrow,” instead of confronting the possibility that too much of the Black mainstream audience has been conditioned to expect culturally familiar slop
That’s part of why some of the most talented Black filmmakers struggle to receive proportional support from Black audiences. If the work isn’t immediately familiar, stereotypical, melodramatic or culturally reassuring, people can start mistaking sophistication for alienation. A Black prodigy practically has to dilute the work just enough to make it recognizable before a mass Black audience embraces it
“The hood eats its babies” - Tupac
Ryan Coogler mastered that middle ground. Sinners is the best example: ambitious filmmaking, but still accessible enough culturally and emotionally to bring everybody along. The problem is that a filmmaker of his caliber should never have had to master that balancing act in the first place
Ridley Scott reportedly blamed Paul Mescal for ‘Gladiator II’ and felt he wasn’t “masculine enough”
According to Puck’s Matt Belloni, Scott was unhappy with Mescal after ‘Gladiator II’ and that reportedly contributed to the actor being dropped from ‘The Dog Stars.’
Mescal had originally been attached to star before Jacob Elordi replaced him. His team cited scheduling conflicts with Sam Mendes’ Beatles films, but that explanation has since been disputed.
(World of Reel)