Black and White, Good or Bad

The Starmaker

Re: Black and White, Good or Bad

Dr. Jai Maharaj

Re: Black and White, Good or Bad

Robert Morein

From:	The Starmaker
Subject:	Black and White, Good or Bad
Date:	Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:19:31 GMT

Somebody wrote:
---
While Looking for a movie review I stumbled upon this article, The
Unfair Racial Cliché Alert

http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/racial.html

That brought up a matter that bothered me: the black guy always buys the
farm in movies even sometimes when they appear to be out of danger. The
guy who wrote the article lists _55_ movies, many where Ar-nold is the
worst offender, where usually blacks die trying to help white people or
some other crap.

I wonder, as screenwriters, do you do that consciously or is it some
Hollywood process that insures that the "B team" who are always
minorities always die needlessly will die at the end? Why is almost
always white people who survive rather than black *and* white?
---

My answer to the question is
it's about perception.

White and Black

Black and White

White and Black

Good and Bad

Bad and Good

What is the first word that comes to your mind,
if you have to answer only Good or Bad.

Everytime someone shows you a photo,
you must give your first response, Good or Bad.

Someone shows you a photo of a white guy.
Good or bad
Someone shows you a photo of a black guy.
Good or bad
Photo of an apple
Good
banana
good
sunshine
good
Hitler
bad
white guy
good
black guy

In cowboy movies, the good guy wears white, the bad guy wears black.

Bad guys always die. Bad guy is wearing black. Black is bad.

So my silly conclusion is, the black guys dies in movies because
they are wearing black (skin color)! He's already dressed for the part
of the bad guy!
It's type casting.

I think somewhere along the line, people perceive black to be a bad
color and
they get mixed up the color black with people who are black.

The Starmaker

Girls wear black to night clubs because they want to be bad.

People are scared of the dark.

From:	Dr. Jai Maharaj
Subject:	Re: Black and White, Good or Bad
Date:	Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:31:41 GMT

Hollywood *can* be quite color-prejudiced at times.

Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti

In article <41E1BBD8.E12@ix.netcom.com>,
starmaker@ix.netcom.com posted:

> Somebody wrote:
> > ---
> > While Looking for a movie review I stumbled upon this article, The
> > Unfair Racial Cliché Alert
> >
> > http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/racial.html
> >
> > That brought up a matter that bothered me: the black guy always buys the
> > farm in movies even sometimes when they appear to be out of danger. The
> > guy who wrote the article lists _55_ movies, many where Ar-nold is the
> > worst offender, where usually blacks die trying to help white people or
> > some other crap.
> >
> > I wonder, as screenwriters, do you do that consciously or is it some
> > Hollywood process that insures that the "B team" who are always
> > minorities always die needlessly will die at the end? Why is almost
> > always white people who survive rather than black *and* white?
> > ---

> My answer to the question is
> it's about perception.
>
> White and Black
>
> Black and White
>
> White and Black
>
> Good and Bad
>
> Bad and Good
>
> What is the first word that comes to your mind,
> if you have to answer only Good or Bad.
>
> Everytime someone shows you a photo,
> you must give your first response, Good or Bad.
>
> Someone shows you a photo of a white guy.
> Good or bad
> Someone shows you a photo of a black guy.
> Good or bad
> Photo of an apple
> Good
> banana
> good
> sunshine
> good
> Hitler
> bad
> white guy
> good
> black guy
>
>
> In cowboy movies, the good guy wears white, the bad guy wears black.
>
> Bad guys always die. Bad guy is wearing black. Black is bad.
>
> So my silly conclusion is, the black guys dies in movies because
> they are wearing black (skin color)! He's already dressed for the part
> of the bad guy!
> It's type casting.
>
>
> I think somewhere along the line, people perceive black to be a bad
> color and
> they get mixed up the color black with people who are black.
>
>
> The Starmaker
>
>
> Girls wear black to night clubs because they want to be bad.
>
> People are scared of the dark.

From:	Robert Morein
Subject:	Re: Black and White, Good or Bad
Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:05:00 -0500

"The Starmaker" wrote in message
news:41E1BBD8.E12@ix.netcom.com...
> Somebody wrote:
> ---
> While Looking for a movie review I stumbled upon this article, The
> Unfair Racial Cliché Alert
>
> http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/racial.html
>
> That brought up a matter that bothered me: the black guy always buys the
> farm in movies even sometimes when they appear to be out of danger.

I think you're right. In this case, the racial stereotype hides the fear of
racial genocide.
"White man" wants assurance that he's the survivor.

So tell me, have you ever written a script where you survived the "notes"
sessions with your principles intact?