Ahhh, Hollywood. That Jewish conspiracy of old white men bent on keeping minorities under their jackboot. TRUTH: Hollywood is run by old white men. TRUTH: The top-grossing stars worldwide are, in order of appearance, WHITE MEN, WHITE WOMEN, black men. TRUTH: The United States is the only media country in the world that does not subsidize its content. Thus, the American entertainment industry is a hypercapitalist dystopia. And as a hypercapitalist dystopia it is both breathtakingly greedy and astonishingly risk-averse. It's pretty fuckin' sad that the LA Times decided to quote Chinese film fansites without checking out, oh, Rotten Tomatoes 'cuz boy howdy ain't no movie racism like American movie racism. But the fact of the matter is, Black Panther is shattering all kinds of records in the United States and scored a whopping 28th place best opening in China. It's fair to say that Black Panther got made despite the Chinese market, not because of it and any opening whatsoever is impressive. You'll notice only four of ten top openings are American; the rest are indigenous and they do not have black people in them. Hollywood, more than anything else, wants money. When any given project costs as much as an office park and has to make its receipts back in 72 hours you eschew risky projects through and through. It's fucking amazing that Hollywood made a majority-black blockbuster superhero movie about someone other than Shaft because it truly is a prejudicial place but believe you me: greed sells much more than principle. Tyler Perry has no problem getting his projects funded even though they exist in a mirror universe where none of the audience is white. If he had some crossover appeal? He'd get bigger budgets. Now that there's a "black" movie making money hand over fist, expect more black movies. This is a good thing. But if we had rules like the Brits or the Canadians or the Germans in which a movie project would get subsidized for diversity we wouldn't even be having this conversation. When your livelihood depends on making teenaged boys happy, your art suffers. Period.
Wasn't it the same thing for the feudal Europe's society for a while? why are they talking about Russ— oh For some reason, I find this absolutely adorable. The core of the article is to highlight the projection that some Americans involved engage in. "They don't like blacks, so they must be racist". No, not really, as the article presents. Black Panther's popularity is in its America-based antithesis that wouldn't play to any similar extent anywhere else. China doesn't have the history of shipping, enslaving and otherwise oppressing blacks; nor does Russia, Germany or Chile. China lacks the extensively-complicated relations that races have accumulated in the US; so does Albania, Sweden and Papua New Guinea. Black Panther is an American film, first and foremost. I've heard it hailed as an emancipatory story for the blacks of the US. I haven't seen it yet, so I can't attest to its quality. However, culturally, expecting it to excel or crumble based on the US' deep-seated racial relationships background makes no sense. The purpose of the article is to make people recognize that.Light skin, in agriculture-based Asian societies, was a proxy for wealth and aristocracy, marking a person who could afford to stay out of the sun-drenched fields.
(which is actively cultivated by a government that frequently uses campaigns against foreigners to quash domestic discontent)
Indian actor Aamir Khan—a 53-year-old veteran of the Mumbai film industry—has become China’s most beloved marquee idol, generating a staggering $190 million in Chinese box office for last year’s $11-million-budget Bollywood sports drama Dangal, and following that up this year with $118 million in China to date for his $2.3 million Secret Superstar.
I think this is an important point. I'm still unsure whether race being in the forefront of public discussions in the U.S. right now is good or bad. I mean, there are certainly issues that need to be addressed (although ironically the broader racial conversation may be distracting from more serious issues). But I also think it's kind of insulting to imply that racial minorities don't also care about the same things as the rest of us. It's one of those things I've kind of wanted to ask some of the black guys I do kung fu with, since i know them pretty well and hopefully they'd be comfortable talking about it. But at the same time I've worried that if I'm wrong, I may not be able to unring the bell. Still, I think the article is a good reminder of worldview projection, and how often our hostility to other cultures/countries comes down to cultural outlook and priorities.However, culturally, expecting it to excel or crumble based on the US' deep-seated racial relationships background makes no sense.