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24. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Year: 1995In this sequel, Jim Carrey’s pet detective, Ace Ventura, goes to wild-ass Africa to track down a white bat so it can be given as a marriage gift and prevent two tribes from going to war (you know, ’cause the white man has always brought peace to the Dark Continent). While on the job, Ace regularly mocks the rituals and culture of the tribes. Now that’s more like the white man we know!
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- Talk Like Sex
- Heart Of Darkness
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about 5 months ago
Anymore, these lists look more like people going out and trying to find the slightest hint of something “offensive” (and I do think racism is offensive) because they have nothing else to do. It's like with the whole racism thing in Michael Bay's Transformers movies. People said Jazz and the Twins were racist characters against black people, except all the black people I knew didn't see it that way at all. They hadn't even thought about the possibility that those things were racist until I, the short white guy, said something. I really think these people need to lighten up and stop ruining good movies.
about 5 months ago
Reading a lot of the titles I was thinking, “Man, I can think of a lot more racists movies that 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'Planet of the Apes.'” But then I saw the caveat, “The 50 Most Racists Movies You Didn't Think Were Racist.”
Here are the movies that I think should be stricken from the list (i.e. that are not racist, unintentional or otherwise):
1. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson's directorial debut).
2. Pulp Fiction (yeah, there is a lot of N-bombs in it, but so too in “Huckleberry Finn”)
3. Driving Miss Daisy (in fact, a big moral of this story is that white liberal elitism gets us no where if said whites are not willing to simply be equals and friends of those they are crusading for).
4. True Lies (just because the bad guys are not white does not entail that the movie is racist).
5. Green Mile (all the atrocious characters are white, and the black character is nothing less than Jesus Christ).
6. Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom (cf. 4)
7. The Gods Must Be Crazy
8. Planet of the Apes (speciesism? yes. racism? no.)
I am shocked to not see Spike Lee's “Do the Right Thing” and Paul Haggis' “Crash” on the list. Perhaps they are not subtle enough to make the list.
about 5 months ago
Hank, then you run with a vastly different sort of people that I do. Each person I've talk to or seen Transformers II with was appalled by its presentation of women and of the twins.
Travis, I know what you mean – I kept thinking – “There are worse… oh, yeah.” And, certainly, with a list of 50, there are bound to be stretches of the imagination. Though I disagree with your appraisal of True Lies and Temple of Doom. True Lies played on the evil but stupid Arab stereotype (see Said and this series of videos : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwCOSkXR_Cw ) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was rife with “heart of darkness” tropes.
about 5 months ago
Let me explain why it isn't as racist as these people say they are might think. Take Jazz from the first movie. I worked with several people, both black and white (even Latino), who talked and acted just like Jazz. Do we assume Jazz is a black sterotype because the voice actor is black? I think that has more to do with it than anything. Plus, why didn't that actor share the same feelings about the film while he did the dialogue? Probably for the same reasons, he knows several people who are that character. Furthermore, I work with several people (black and white) who look like and act just like the Twins from the second film. We aren't seeing this as racist but as real people we interact with every day. Plus, these people always saw Optimus Prime as a black guy. Is that incorrect? When I was asked that question I couldn't answer and was ashamed.
Now I didn't like the Megan Fox thing because she can't act and the whole “sexy chick” thing was distracting from the plot and killing the story more than anything else.
And by the way, Avatar is a very racist movie because it assumes that only a white human can save the native people from the invading human army. The natives couldn't do it on their own. Why isn't there much of a cry for racism about that movie (same goes for Dances with Wolves and Last Samurai)? I'm very curious about that one.
about 5 months ago
Henry, I actually haven't seen True Lies in a long time, so I need to see it again and reappraise it. (and Said does have great stuff to say). As for Temple of Doom, I guess Speilberg needed Indiana to fight against someone other than Nazis, so he instead used radical Hindus who practice human sacrifice. I can understand though why Hindus would find that offensive. “The heart of darkness” stuff is interesting, and it makes me consider Coppla's “Apocalypse Now.” Could that too be a candidate as a subtly racist film?
about 5 months ago
Hank, “Last Samurai” does make the list, and yes, “Avatar” does have the whole white-knight-complex embedded within it. As for “Dance With Wolves,” I would say that the Lt. John Dunbar character fails to be a white-knight as traditionally conceived. True, he does help the Sioux fight the Pawnee by supplying them with guns, but I didn't get the feeling that without him the battle would have been lost. Also, Dunbar does nothing in the film to “save” the Sioux from the advancing “white-man,” but actually leaves the tribe since his presence could endanger them.
about 5 months ago
Hank, I don't think Jazz was that bad, to be honest. It was the twins. As ISS said:
And I agree completely about Avatar. It has caught a lot of flack for being yet another white knight movie. I don't remember Dances, but The Last Sam had the same critiques.
about 5 months ago
Yeah, I both love Said and am frustrated by him at the same time (in Orientalism and other works, he actually says no culture should ever study any other culture). I have not seen Apoc Now, so I can't really comment on it.
A lot of this racism is invisible to the majority culture precisely because we are the majority culture.
about 5 months ago
But Dances with Wolves still uses the “White-Knight” paradigm and then gives it's own spin. If we are going to call the Twins form Transformers racism then we have to call Dunbar racism as well. Consistency.
about 5 months ago
Think about what I am saying though about the Twins. In KC, I know them. I actually worked with them. They live on Independence Ave. Is it racist to base characters off of real people? And these people that I know thought the movie to be funny, partly because of the Twins. I mean the racism case is assumed for some reason that I don't know rather than proven. The characters look and act like real people and that's a bad thing, but I don't see it. Plus, how do we know that Opitums Prime or Bumble Bee aren't based upon a Native American or a certain Asian person? Are we to assume that just because a character fits how we have already understood what a certain character fits what we perceive a specific stereotype is supposed to look like? Aren't we stereotyping by looking for them in the first place?