Submitted 11 months ago by realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to moviesandtv@lemm.ee
https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/does-american-fiction-signal-the-end-of-hollywoods-woke-era
The success of Cord Jefferson’s movie might inspire other young writers and directors to challenge Hollywood’s stereotypical depiction of the black experience.
https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/does-american-fiction-signal-the-end-of-hollywoods-woke-era
Typical grivance bullshit from The Blaze, an extreme right wing conspiracy website. Get this crap out of here.
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Extreme? What happened to our overton window?
Yes. Glenn Beck is a right wing extremist and an anti-semite. You are actively promoting right wing extremist propaganda.
In a fit of self-loathing, I viewed the page via 12ft.io to circumvent the paywall.
It doesn’t get better. “As an educated, heterosexual, Christian black man”, the author enjoyed “Boyz n the Hood,” “Menace II Society,” “Baby Boy,” “New Jack City,” “Sugar Hill,” “American Gangster,” and “Training Day” even though they didn’t represent his lived experience.
These are all films directed ages ago by men, but - somehow - it’s only possible to depict black men like this due to modern Hollywood ‘wokeness’. If you wanted to a black character to be - I don’t know - a policeman or a chocolatier, it wouldn’t be possible. This is why Wonka and Fargo Season 5 weren’t produced, and we never got to see them.
It’s 'cos of the women, you see? Matriarchs, like - um - Tyler Perry, prevent black heterosexual men from been shown as anything other than criminals. They know it’s the only thing white liberals will accept.
The author mostly liked ‘American Fiction’, in having the courage to unravel this great conspiracy. Apparently, it’s great to see to someone like him on screen, because Representation Matters of course, but he didn’t like the LGBTQ elements, because representation of people unlike him doesn’t matter, and that’s just “gay mafia pandering”.
While it was pretty silly for him to pigeonhole these depictions of black men as "woke", I don't know that the author's point is invalid. It's actually what the movie is about.
Of course there are stories about black people who don't fit into these complained-about stereotypes, but I think they easily get drowned out by the stories that are.
Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee 11 months ago
How the fuck are black, drug dealer stereotypes woke? The title of this article makes no sense in the context of the subject. It’s trying to force buzzwords for clickbait. And a paywall pops up halfway through.
realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 11 months ago
Yeah it's a stupid headline.
My bad on the paywall, I'm a subscriber so I didn't notice.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240124211141/https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/does-american-fiction-signal-the-end-of-hollywoods-woke-era