Agree to disagree. Not paying for a movie is the most important part, but it should never be the only part. You should also give the company/artist feedback about why they’re not getting your money, because without that they can’t improve the product for you in the future. (Which is not to say that they will or…

I’m getting a little tired of this weird narrative that writers lack “creativity” because they don’t superficially force their fictional works to conform to idealized contemporary values.

Interestingly, my grandfather (a hollywood screenwriter) wrote scripts for several blaxploitaion films (most notably, “Shaft in Africa.” I can assure you, he was one of the whitest white men that ever lived.

“If people like a book/comic for what it is I’m pretty sure they want film adaptations to be true to the source material.”

“Hello, child. Tell me, what is your peculiar power that makes you a gifted outcast among the normals?”

Yeah, isn’t it funny how the story ALWAYS seems to “call for” white people. Even when it’s set in old China or fuedal Japan or ancient Egypt, somehow white people always seem to be “called for.”

Is that what Jessica Jones said? 😝

Imagine my disappointment when I visited the US in 2012 and every African American I met WASN’T Dolemite... /s

Societal change has a long history of forcing people to do the right thing until it becomes so commonplace that people do it as the new norm.

I hate it when my movies have made up characters in them.

Burton is almost entirely wrong except in certain circumstances. And you managed to make his wrong statements even more wrong.

Please explain to me how that would be “forcing it in”? No one is asking for a 3rd of the movie to be devoted to explaining how and why a POC ended up among all the white folks. Just that they’re there. It changes nothing so long as the writing remains consistant with the character.

I ran the numbers using a very quick and dirty IMDB count, and he’s had 12 major POC characters across 9 of his 18 movies, out of 220 total. “Major” being any actor listed in the top 15 billed. Only three movies had more than one POC character: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Big Fish, and, uh, Planet of the Apes. PotA was…

But squeegeeing diversity for the sake of diversity in rarely improves a story. Make that never improves a story. 

Yeah, a black guy threatening the whiteys. Maybe the hero will be a cop.

So, his point is basically that black people should stay in their films, and white people should stay in theirs. Hmm, where have I heard this concept before?

I read that in Jones’ voice and it just made the whole thing better.

In fairness most people believe he is overrated, if not beyond his prime.

What an idiot. That blaxploitation comment sounds exactly like when white people say “Well there’s no white television shows or actors on BET or Telemundo!!” Are you really that dense?