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I misspoke and your post made me realize it, thank you. I edited the comment. I somewhat understand a majority black cast. The target demographic may be black,

I misspoke and your post made me realize it, thank you. I edited the comment. I somewhat understand a majority black cast. The target demographic may be black, and people like to see people like themselves in movies. On top of that, they may be trying to be accurate to historical or regional details. But to have both cast and crew as almost entirely black? I don't see the utility in that other than to make a political statement.

gamblor956 6y ago
One of the main villains, and two of the supporting characters are white. While the director and screenwriter were black, the film's producers and editors were white, and the rest of the crew itself was made up of the usual assortment of Hollywood crew members, without regard to race. (I have several non-black friends who worked on the movie in the camera, prop, makeup, 2nd unit aka "stunt" unit, and VFX departments.) If you're going to be racist, at least have the intelligence to look up the cast and crew and IMDB before you spout your Trumpian nonsense.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
  If this is true, then I learned something and I appreciate you telling me. I'll verify in a couple hours, and will probably change my perspective of the movie because of it. What I don't like is the personal attack. I got my information not from Fox News or something, but from mainstream media news sites going on and on about how progressive it was that their cast and crew was almost completely black(or at least that's how I remember it). I made the post I did because I wanted to push back against racism. Again, thank you for the productive portion of your comment. I will learn from it.
  - gamblor956 6y ago
    I got my information not from Fox News or something, but from mainstream media news sites going on and on about how progressive it was that their cast and crew was almost completely black(or at least that's how I remember it). I made the post I did because I wanted to push back against racism. Citations required. I read the mainstream media sources too, and I don't know of any that characterized the Black Panther crew as almost all black. The majority of the cast was black, simply because the majority of the characters of the underlying comic are black. What's next? Are you going to complain if David Copperfield is played by an Indian guy?
    - dragonwriter 6y ago
      Yeah, the usual thing being noted was that it was a predominantly black cast in a major Hollywood film being marketed as a general blockbuster and not as a “black film”.
    - TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
      You are right about the news. I went back and looked, and they only discussed the cast, not the crew(except for some fringe sites that don't warrant discussion). This is most likely a result of my insecurities and biases warping my memory or perception of those articles. Thank you for discussing this with me. It's easy to assume bad faith and ignore people, but your engagement taught me a lot.

gamblor956 6y ago

One of the main villains, and two of the supporting characters are white. While the director and screenwriter were black, the film's producers and editors were white, and the rest of the crew itself was made up of the usual assortment of Hollywood crew members, without regard to race. (I have several non-black friends who worked on the movie in the camera, prop, makeup, 2nd unit aka "stunt" unit, and VFX departments.) If you're going to be racist, at least have the intelligence to look up the cast and crew and IMDB before you spout your Trumpian nonsense.

TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
If this is true, then I learned something and I appreciate you telling me. I'll verify in a couple hours, and will probably change my perspective of the movie because of it. What I don't like is the personal attack. I got my information not from Fox News or something, but from mainstream media news sites going on and on about how progressive it was that their cast and crew was almost completely black(or at least that's how I remember it). I made the post I did because I wanted to push back against racism. Again, thank you for the productive portion of your comment. I will learn from it.
- gamblor956 6y ago
  I got my information not from Fox News or something, but from mainstream media news sites going on and on about how progressive it was that their cast and crew was almost completely black(or at least that's how I remember it). I made the post I did because I wanted to push back against racism. Citations required. I read the mainstream media sources too, and I don't know of any that characterized the Black Panther crew as almost all black. The majority of the cast was black, simply because the majority of the characters of the underlying comic are black. What's next? Are you going to complain if David Copperfield is played by an Indian guy?
  - dragonwriter 6y ago
    Yeah, the usual thing being noted was that it was a predominantly black cast in a major Hollywood film being marketed as a general blockbuster and not as a “black film”.
  - TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
    You are right about the news. I went back and looked, and they only discussed the cast, not the crew(except for some fringe sites that don't warrant discussion). This is most likely a result of my insecurities and biases warping my memory or perception of those articles. Thank you for discussing this with me. It's easy to assume bad faith and ignore people, but your engagement taught me a lot.