I reduced it in that way to show how the story fits into the box which Hollywood uses to confine actors.
Came here to say the same thing. Clover is brilliant.
List of Black Oscar Winning actors and the Role They Won For:
1939 - Hattie McDaniel - a slave who helps the white heroine
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I live around people who voted for Trump and I know many of them will not want to listen to me. I’m an American Indian woman with a Hispanic last name. I’m also well educated and a feminist. There are so many things I am that is wrong to them.
Trump supporters have been interviewed about why they were voting for him.
What is there worth trying to understand and engage with about people who, at best, have signaled they are okay with racism and bigotry?
America spends most of it’s time eating the ass of Trump voters and have for some time. Just look at our election cycle, it begins in Iowa and New Hampshire (the Iowa of the NE)... White flyover state voters have a higher median income than “liberal enclave voters” and nearly every cable channel is devoted to the…
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No mention of Luke Cage? It actually had a scene with three black women that passed the Bechdel test. More importantly, it was (mostly) entertaining.
I’ve read/heard at least 10 professional film reviews gushing about La La Land and referring to it as a throwback to ‘the golden era of Hollywood’, etc. There are a lot of great films from that era, but they were also all-white. La La Land missed a fantastic opportunity to meld that genre with a diverse cast - now…