Recent Denzel Washington flick Deja Vu is a terrible horrible no good very bad movie: still, it is interesting that the female lead/Denzel's love interest is explicitly mixed-race (her white father has a speaking role) but as she hangs out living her life she isn't particularly more conflicted in her life than another action movie damsel-in-distress. Which doesn't make other aspects of the movie less headdesky in terms of race, gender, economics, logic, and the laws of physics.
Will Smith could be interesting in I Am Legend (in the book, last non-vampirified man becomes The Other by being normal human) and Tonight, He Comes (black superhero in interracial relationship with white lover played by South African actress) if either movie is not the suck.
Is Morgan Freeman as God in Bruce/Evan Almighty an extension of the Magical Negro, a twist on it, and/or something else?
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Sun, Jun. 3rd, 2007 09:05 pm (UTC)Will Smith could be interesting in I Am Legend (in the book, last non-vampirified man becomes The Other by being normal human) and Tonight, He Comes (black superhero in interracial relationship with white lover played by South African actress) if either movie is not the suck.
Is Morgan Freeman as God in Bruce/Evan Almighty an extension of the Magical Negro, a twist on it, and/or something else?