thabet
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02:04:02 pm on August 25, 2008 | # | |
Where are the white heroes?
“Producers said ‘It’s a nice project, a great project… where are the white heroes?’” he told AFP during a stay in Paris this month for a seminar on film.
“I couldn’t get the money here, I couldn’t get the money in Britain. I went to everybody. You wouldn’t believe the number of producers based in Europe, and in the States, that I went to,” he said.
“The first question you get, is ‘Is it a black film?’ All of them agree, it’s not going to do good in Europe, it’s not going to do good in Japan.
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Willow 2:16 pm on August 25, 2008 | #
Where are the white heroes?
Exactly. We’re marginalized in the media and it’s time we got vocal about it. Where are the white heroes? Do I have to go my whole life without seeing a positive representation of my race on the big screen?
I swear…
On a more serious note, I would love to see a biopic about Toussaint-L’Overture. I hope Danny Glover gets his money.
Fatemeh 3:19 pm on August 25, 2008 | #
You’ve got to be effing KIDDING me with this!
I forwarded the story to Racialicious editors.
Tariq Nelson 8:49 pm on August 25, 2008 | #
Thing is that it probably would not do that well…You’d have to take a lot of “creative license” in it like in Braveheart. Throw in a love interest and some other juicy things
Willow 9:39 pm on August 25, 2008 | #
That’s Hollywood. The inaccuracies in Braveheart (like Princess What’sherface being 12 and in France while the whole thing was going down) didn’t bother me because it was an amazing piece of art. I’m pretty sure Harun al Rashid didn’t do half the stuff he does in Alf Layla either.
I say license away.
thabet 12:33 am on August 26, 2008 | #
It’s only a problem if people take these sorts of films to be historically accurate (e.g. U-571…). Otherwise, I agree.
Tariq Nelson 6:54 am on August 26, 2008 | #
@ Willow
I agree that Braveheart was a great movie. In this movie they have to find a way to throw in someone like Eva Mendez or Jessica Alba into the movie as the love interest/wife. The atrocities of the whites have to be greatly exaggerated. The white hero can come in by making one of Louverture’s white officers into a Lawrence of Arabia type figure.