Think again.
You know, I can understand racism. Fear and willful ignorance breeds hate, but the stupidity of allowing that to effect the quality of your product?
That I just don't get.
Green is color you'd think they'd be most concerned about.
October 13, 2008
FOREST WHITAKER REJECTED FOR BEING 'TOO BLACK...UGLY'
You think I'm playing? That I'm about to link to an article from The Onion?
Think again.
You know, I can understand racism. Fear and willful ignorance breeds hate, but the stupidity of allowing that to effect the quality of your product?
That I just don't get.
Green is color you'd think they'd be most concerned about.
Think again.
You know, I can understand racism. Fear and willful ignorance breeds hate, but the stupidity of allowing that to effect the quality of your product?
That I just don't get.
Green is color you'd think they'd be most concerned about.
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But that's just it. Racism in and of itself is irrationality bred by fear, willful ignorance and hatred.
This is why minority candidates-be they women, pocs or LGBTs-are often rejected from jobs even if they're the best qualified candidates.
People would rather feed into their bigotry even if it works against them.
I shouldn't be shocked by this and yet I'm still beyond disgusted.
"An executive told me straight: `Even if he wins the Oscar he's ugly, he's black and he's unbankable.'"
(...)
The budget on Winged Creatures dropped from $US11 million to $US4.5 million because Woods wouldn't consider a Michael Douglas or an Al Pacino for Whitaker's role.
!!!!!!
Unbelievable.
I'll take Whitaker's "ugly" (not to mention much broader acting range) over Douglas and Pacino's pasty-prune-faces any day.
Good grief.
@neo
I'm with you, but it's still mind-boggling. Folks make deals with people they hate/dislike every day for that bottom-line, but when it comes to what they look like, that's the deal-breaker?
...Even when it can line your pockets?
I just can't understand how 'ism's can trump any other form of dislike.
If you can get over the douche-baggery of your boss's son to close a deal, why can't you deal with skin color, gender, orientation?
Okay, yes, yes...Irrational.
...But still!!
*brainimplodes*
How is Al Pacino and Michael Douglas still considered bankable? This is what happens when 80-year-old why males run production companies.
Righteous Kill. 88 Minutes. Two for the Money. Gigli. The Recruit. S1m0ne.
King of California. You, Me, and Dupree. The Sentinal. The In-Laws. It Runs in the Family.
Really?
While I won't dispute the relative bankability of a Douglas or Pacino, I think you're missing the point, or at least glancing right over it. Heck, your last line even says it: "Green is color you'd think they'd be most concerned about."
Obviously, that's exactly the color they are most concerned about. I find the fact that Forest's being black would diminish their investment to be the disgusting part, but that's more of a comment on society (and moviegoers) as a whole than it is on this one businessman. Certainly it's been proven to false in some cases, but by and large, it sadly is a fact.
@fletch
I am going to have to disagree with you on that. There is a reason why I used the late Biggie Smalls as my capped photo, this time.
Quality, charisma, and/or just plain GOOD entertainment sells, regardless of the color of the participants....If people know about it.
Hollywood has been shocked by the success of Tyler Perry, precisely because of that stupid mindset.
And it's self-reinforcing...In those limited minds. The mostly older white male executives aren't exactly going to go out of there way to attend a Chinese family wedding, for example.
But I'll be damned, if a good entertaining mainstream movie about that, with the proper advertising, doesn't get seen.
...Okay, maybe the second good film about that. I think it might take more than one before "audience training" is reversed. :P
But, alas nobody's willing to do it.
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