10-20 years ago, nobody cared that Blade was a black man. Even when Catwoman came out, you had a black female lead. Again, nobody was making a fuss. Granted Catwoman was awful, but before it came out, most people didn't know that.
So what changed?
It feels like in the past few years, all the political and racial kerfuffle, has felt artificially created by the mass media and social media. That's not to say real racism doesn't exist in this country. It absolutely does. But one cannot deny it wasn't like this in the 90s and 2000s. The most insane thing I saw was one woman on twitter asking people when she can go see this movie, because she didn't want to suck the black joy out of the theater with her whiteness. And I also saw some news articles talking about what a travesty it is that Black Panther no longer has a 100% on RT. One article even mentioning the first bad review it got, was a result of Trump's America.
Wtf? It's just a superhero movie! 12 Years a Slave doesn't even have a 100%. Glory doesn't have a 100%. But a few bad reviews come out for Black Panther and it's a result of racism? How bout they're just entitled to their opinion and thought it was genuinely a mediocre film?
10-20 years ago, nobody cared that Blade was a black man. Even when Catwoman came out, you had a black female lead.
The difference of course being that Blade was an obscure character and an R rated action film that then had a more limited audience and Catwoman was a huge pile of shit.
The difference of course being that Blade was an obscure character and an R rated action film that then had a more limited audience
Until Civil War, Black Panther was way more obscure than Blade! "90s kids" will remember Blade from the Spider-Man TV show but Black Panther? Never heard of him until Captain America 3. And saying that the Blade trilogy had a more limited audience is simply ignorant. It was a trilogy that made A LOT of money back then ffs. Arguably the first superhero franchise to have a major audience.
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u/Snark88 Feb 17 '18
10-20 years ago, nobody cared that Blade was a black man. Even when Catwoman came out, you had a black female lead. Again, nobody was making a fuss. Granted Catwoman was awful, but before it came out, most people didn't know that.
So what changed?
It feels like in the past few years, all the political and racial kerfuffle, has felt artificially created by the mass media and social media. That's not to say real racism doesn't exist in this country. It absolutely does. But one cannot deny it wasn't like this in the 90s and 2000s. The most insane thing I saw was one woman on twitter asking people when she can go see this movie, because she didn't want to suck the black joy out of the theater with her whiteness. And I also saw some news articles talking about what a travesty it is that Black Panther no longer has a 100% on RT. One article even mentioning the first bad review it got, was a result of Trump's America.
Wtf? It's just a superhero movie! 12 Years a Slave doesn't even have a 100%. Glory doesn't have a 100%. But a few bad reviews come out for Black Panther and it's a result of racism? How bout they're just entitled to their opinion and thought it was genuinely a mediocre film?