New Film Trailers: Do You Notice Something?

Well, you can better blame American Culture, because they're the one's that have infected the world overall with a negative/ undesirable view of anything non-white, therefore movies featuring non-white leads, supporting characters, and basically any black person that's not killed off within the first 30 mins are not marketable to foreign audiences. Hollywood has pigeonholed itself into a (albeit very profitable) corner, featuring majority white casts and white washing where applicable. The only ones truly offended are the American minority, because the foreign minority (for the most part) has been conditioned to accept and praise the system of exclusion, even if they themselves are the excluded.

 

I watched the Hunger Games because it was a date night thing but I refuse to believe that Becky McWhitcaster would rise to the occasion in these Divergent Fifth Wave Maze Runner deals.

 

Diversity in films is a pet peeve of mine. In this day and age (2016), lily white casts are unacceptable. I grew up watching movies in the 1950s and '60s and beyond. Lily white casts were the norm, that is all we had, so that is what we had to deal with. Now, not so much. I saw the trailer of the movie "Hail Caesar" not a person of color to be seen either in the trailer or when I went online and looked up the complete cast. The movie had a cast of hundreds. "Hail Caesar" flopped at the box office. The same with "Gods of Egypt",it flopped also. I think people are getting kind of tired of just seeing whites onscreen and are realizing that all white worlds depicted in the movies are unrealistic. "Gods of Egypt",is a movie that had whites playing Egyptians. My tolerance for movies that are lily white is extremely low. I am not saying Blacks or people of color of other races have to be the stars, but when you see a big city street scene, and everybody walking on the street is white, and every Extra in every other scene is white, it has become absolutely intolerable. Hollywood is full of slow learners, they do not want to change or they don't know how. The irony is that Hollywood is suppose to be full of Liberals. It seems they are a bunch of Liberal Racists.

 

You nailed the reaction to 'Sausage Party', same as mine. I thought come on Seth you just got all your white buddies that you smoke weed with and made a move and could not even use various POC as various foods??? That is so not cool bro, I am so pissed I should smoke another one

 

of all of the movies listed, Miss Peregrine's disappoints me the most.
I know like @Ockydub said, Tim Burton has never been big on casting of the coloreds and I know this and enjoy his works but I always foolishly hold out that hope that he'll come around to recognizing his non-ethnic casting choices. Here he does cast a big name and great actor like Samuel L. Jackson and it's another one of his solo faces of color that also happens to be the villain roles.

I refuse to ever watch eve for free, white gods of Egypt and Exodus: white gods and white kings because of the short sighted and then defensive stance on the terrible Euro casting choices.

 

Sausage Party is exactly what I expect from them and doesn't really surprise me. Salma Hayek playing a taco does slightly surprise and disappoint and I'm not even going to look and see what food Craig Robinson or any of their other usual checked off minority pals are playing.
A movie like this, I'd actually rather see a lack of diversity rather than groan inducing ethnic embarrassments.

 

I think this continueous dilemma on not being included in "major" motion pictures is so layerd I'm always not sure where to start. I definitely see the points of view for us as "minority" groups wanting shear opportunity whether acting roles or otherwise. However it just puzzles me that after years and years and years and years of this going on, what do we expect to happen? Yes, I know it should start with a dialouge and we should not just sit quiet and don't say anything. But it just seems like we should do more. That is the ones in the our "minority" groups that are truly offended. A lot of people talk about its a shame there are no blacks in the movie, etc, yet many of us go opening night and see it. And watching it at home counts as well. And also, when you have a movie/television industry where the directors, writers, producers, assistants and so on are all white, its pretty much a given that they hire the reflections of themselves. Or even more so hire the friends, social circles, etc who are also white. Should there be an affirmative action clause set in the entertainment industry? Should every movie or television show be sure to cast equal racial groups or it is not distributed? Should we take a stand and boycott the "white" movies and extend it to the companies that advertise/support those movies? (film companies that produce such films?) even extend it to the actors who participate in those movies by boycotting all of the movies they act in? Race is indeed an issue, but the true color that matters now more than ever is GREEN. Maybe if they feel the hit of the disappearance of the black dollar there would be some changes. I don't know. When these kinda conversations start I just have questions and try to get clarity from all perspectives.

 

If white people/non blacks didn't think all movies starring black folks were only for or could only be enjoyed by black people...



Even though I'd be pressed to really put my hope and faith into Becky McWhitcaster being the heroine if there's some major ish going down, I never had this issue with Ripley from Aliens. That character was believable. I just don't think someone who was taking Algebra II a year ago is going to be much of a savior when the time comes.

Animation of definitely one of the areas where diversity could be used more but I admit, the minute I found out Rihanna was in Home, it hit the Maybe I'll Netflix It One Day list. I just feel someone else, a different black person, could have voiced that character better and she was probably cast to appeal to a wider (whiter) audience.

 

Ah, the final girl syndrome.
Aside from Ripley or Xena, she's always white passibly attractive and barely out of adolescence but always so much more intuitive and resilient than everyone else. The ultimate survivor.

I think animation has a lot of untapped potential for people of color trying to sell their stories and get their talents recognized.

 

Well, the token "Black" friends could've been represented by a container of Chitlin's. or a Pig's Foot, or even a piece of Fried Chicken. SMH. I'm pretty sure they'de have LOOOOVED to have gone that route, but opted out on the backlash.

 

"Should there be an affirmative action clause set in the entertainment industry? "
I don't think anyone would be able to pull this off even if it was a thought. If Im not mistaken, doesn't Movie/Film industry fall into artistic expression, and therefor exempt from any type of "Affirmative Action"? It's like trying to influence someone's personal, artistic vision.