Glad to see Alia Shawkat in a meaty role again. She hasn’t done very much (at least not much I’ve noticed) since Arrested Development.

Why are you lying about me being a white supremacist? How does that lie benefit you?

There’s a wide gulf between being historically accurate and being blatantly anachronistic. Where this falls definitely depends on how much you know about classic Hollywood.

Please provide evidence of my skin color.

That absolutely depended on the studio. Some of them were segregated, some weren’t.

I assume you’re saying that because you’ve seen the film and know that the racism of Hollywood absolutely doesn’t play a factor in it in any way, right? You wouldn’t just be making assumptions about a film which won’t come out until next year, would you?

Holy shit, you’re flooding the entire comments section. Stop it, you nut!

Yeah, it’s almost like it was a deliberate stylistic choice in that case or something...

So you’d be okay with any anachronism in any movie as long as it’s clearly fiction? No problems with, for example, a Robin Hood movie where he wins the archery contest with a machine gun? Or an adaptation of Last of the Mohicans where Hawkeye rides a roller coaster?

Shockingly, there were no black people in that film either.

Okay, but if the movie featured people talking on their cell phones despite taking place in the 40s, would you make the same excuse or would you think that was a weird choice to make?

They could have, but a lot of people would see a movie taking place in a location and era where very few black people were employed with a bunch of black people in it as a strange choice.

If he had any wit, he would have put up a photo of a cocker spaniel... or at least a dachshund.

Exactly. Whoopi Goldberg famously told a story about how she decided to become a performer because she saw Star Trek on the TV when it premiered in the 60s and ran to her mother, yelling, “mama, there’s a black lady on the TV and she ain’t no maid!”

I mentioned this in another comment... in 1946, James Baskett won an Oscar for playing Uncle Remus in Song of the South. It was a special category invented just for him because black actors didn’t win Oscars.

The fact that there was a very, very low-budget “Black Hollywood” B-movie industry back then which was one of the few ways you’d see a black person in a film that wasn’t a porter, shoe-shine boy or maid, I’d say the answer to your question is no.

Wait, so you’re complaining about a film not featuring black people in an era when Hollywood was so segregated that they had to create a special Oscar category for James Baskett because black men didn’t win Best Actor awards?

That was disappointingly underwhelming.

I probably wouldn’t be good at giving people manners advice, because if someone rudely asked me how I got the big scar on my leg, I’d probably respond, “from hunting down and killing people who ask me impertinent questions.”