THE UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT -- Deadicated to Scatman Crothers "I've seen this in the movies before! The black guy dies!" -Harry Block (played by Orlando Jones): EVOLUTION http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/Racial/racial_cliches.html Interesting site, especially from a white dude. He lists a bunch of movies over the years where the few Blacks are often used as cannon (or slasher) fodder. We all know that score. It's only been the last few years that Blacks have started surviving horror or scifi flicks to the end. I mean, in "Deep Blue Sea", LL even joked about Brothers never surviving in such situations, and I know that joke's been told in more than one movie recently. But I guess we have people like LL, Cube, and Will Smith to thank for the turnaround. The site's just a listing of all the films with little real analysis. In "Deep Blue Sea", for example, I guess one could argue that Sam Jackson's death is kinda okay since everyone else killed was white, and a Black man does survive to the end and is even the hero. I noticed one error: it states that Sam Jackson was the only Black in "Jurassic Park". He forgot the old Brother at the very beginning of the flick. Remember, they were trying to offload a Raptor from a truck to a cage, and the cage door got stuck. So of course the seventy-year-old looking Brother climbs on top of the cage, and moments later--"Aagh!", and "Chomp!" The whole thing was overseen by the Australian dude doing his Great White Hunter schtick. Of course he stood back from a safe distance *looking* menacing with a gun while the help risked life and limb(s). When we saw that, my brother-in-law and I turned to each other at the exact same moment and said "Why'd the Brother have to die?", to the embarrassment of my wife! <http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/Racial/racial_cliches.html>
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