I get most of these and I'm definately agains the trope,(even though I LIKED the constant gardener as a book due to recent discussions with friends from other races i've had it pointed out to me how problematic it is and gone "doh".) but I just have to ask. How does lost in translation fit?
Cos to me that movies, all about people feeling lost in other cultures, sure they could have done it with PoC in a country not their own but surely that's just the more general thin of whites dominating hollywood. I don't really see him as saving anything at all,just desperately trying to find himself?
So yeah just wondering how you saw that as fitting in. Thanks for an incredibly interesting article.
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Mon, Jun. 4th, 2007 12:14 am (UTC)Cos to me that movies, all about people feeling lost in other cultures, sure they could have done it with PoC in a country not their own but surely that's just the more general thin of whites dominating hollywood. I don't really see him as saving anything at all,just desperately trying to find himself?
So yeah just wondering how you saw that as fitting in. Thanks for an incredibly interesting article.