Why White People Don't Like Black Movies

Maybe. But Spike Lee has done well enough with white audiences and so have the Wayan brothers.

Whites are used to seeing characters who look like themselves who they can imagine themselves as. Black movies force them to look at themselves from an almost entirely alien view. Its an experience that many cannot deal with, so they avoid it.

But I really hope black americans keep on making movies, eventually more people will see how, at least some of them, kick A.

 

I (a white guy) actually love black comedies. Martin Lawrence movies are a staple in my home.....

 

Yes, every culture likes to identify and imagine the characters in movies as themselves. Nothing wrong with that, it's natural.

 

and maybe blacks have big lips? Do we really need tv cartoons exhaggerating it?

 

When I was growing up, TV was integrated. I watched lots of shows that were about blacks with a primarily black cast.

Now, the TV audience has become compartmentalized. I can't think of a single show I've watched in the past couple of years that have a majority black cast.

The TV audience is now highly segregated, so I would guess white people just don't have the patience for an all black movie/

 

Begs the question of why an mostly/all black movie should try their patience.

But you have a point, though you shifted from movies to TV, which are different animals. Though I can't really comment on current TV content. The only shows I've gotten into recently are 'Breaking Bad.' the new "House of Cards, and 'Orange is the New Black.' You do have an rainbow ensemble with that last one....

AFAIK, counterparts in wide appeal to 'The Jeffersons,' 'Redd Fox,' and "the Cosby Show' do not now exist.

 

I liked the Book of Eli and most all Denzel Washington movies... I like most of Will Smith's work.. Samuel L Jackson and others.

 

If you get Netflix disks, order "Nothin' But a Man" and see how it strikes you.

 

I have never seen "Nothing But a Man" but the 'blurb' on it says it's about a black RxR worker who falls in love with "the town's preacher's daughter"....Then adds...."and tries to maintain his respect in the white racist south in the early 60's."

As for myself, I know all about the racist south but was born and raised in the north where racism was frowned upon. I have never been racist however, my grandmother was from the deep south and hated blacks. She used to tell me they 'smelled' and were 'ignorant.' I always thought she had a screw loose in that area and told her so. Funny, when she could no longer care for herself, she had black nurses (mostly volunteers) who took care of her. She finally realized that skin color does not prohibit a person from being an intelligent, kind, caring human being. Glad she at least realized that before she assumed room temperature.

 

I think I will do that anyway. The 'Scott Joplin' story was a good flick too. Porgy and Bess is an excellent newer-classic opera.

 

In the 1990's cultured movies had more funding, bad boys was a good example. Now all the movies are bad except a few good ones, that happen to be white centered.

 

"i'm not racist... I have black friends"

now add to the list of standard racism disclaimers....

"I'm not racist.... I watch movies with black movie stars in it"




if the movie looks interesting, I'll watch.... if not, I won't. Noone seems worried if I don't watch a Justin Timberlake movie. But if I say I didn't like iRobot..... "where's your hoodie, Javis?"

 

It depends on the movie.

Spike Lee may not be the most humble guy, but he's made some bonafide classics in my book.

On the other hand, I could never get into Tyler Perry movies.

 

To me Martin Lawrence is a funny guy who happens to pick a lot of bad movies to star in.

His show was classic though. One of the funniest sitcoms in my opinion.

 

I don't get Netflix, but it sounds like a good movie.

Nothing But a Man is a film made in 1964, directed by Michael Roemer. The story is about a black railroad worker who falls in love with the town’s preacher’s daughter, and tries to maintain his respect in the white racist south in the early '60s.[1] The story depicts the struggle of their strife for “a meaningful place” in their society. It stars Ivan Dixon as Duff Anderson and Abbey Lincoln as Josie Dawson. According to The Washington Post, "Nothing But a Man is one of the most sensitive films about black life ever made in this country”.[