Pretty Is As Pretty Does...chatchienOctober 8 2016, 16:21:32 UTC
Ahhh! Phiona is as pretty as Lupita. As shown in her film “Mississippi Masala”, director Mira Nair treats the people as Ugandan not as poverty porn subjects, but of fully fleshed and realized people.
I liked Mississippi Masala, Denzel Washington actually became sexy for me in that film. From the pictures, it appears that Nair is photographing her actors properly. I never realized how little Hollywood and European films don't consider people of color when they light a set until I saw Black Hawk Down. Ridley Scott photographed the Africans like they were black gold in that film. And I've seen a few Nigerian films and they do the job properly too.
It's a shame that a movie about smart and talented black girl is not getting the box office that a Disney film about princesses gets. Maybe they should have titled it, Princess of Katwee and had a singing Black Knight dancing around. ::eyeball::🙄👀👅
I am interested in your thoughts on Birth of a Nation. I haven't seen it yet, but I think that I will despite the rape charges (that were dropped against him and the conviction of his friend--invalidated by the courts). I think that I will give D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation a look too while I'm at it. From your plot summary, it appears that both films are Revenge Films and Rape films. They are just coming at it from entirely different social and political viewpoints---and historical viewpoints too. It will be interesting to compare the two. Then I'll be back. ;-)
Re: Pretty Is As Pretty Does...dawnybeeOctober 9 2016, 22:23:03 UTC
It's a shame that a movie about smart and talented black girl is not getting the box office that a Disney film about princesses gets. Maybe they should have titled it, Princess of Katwee and had a singing Black Knight dancing around. ::eyeball::🙄👀👅
All that was missing was an Idina Menzel song or merchandising. Maybe they should have commissioned a Phiona doll w/a chess set. Disney cares about color--the color green and getting that $$$.
From your plot summary, it appears that both films are Revenge Films and Rape films. They are just coming at it from entirely different social and political viewpoints---and historical viewpoints too
While I feel not every slave film needs a rape scene (and IMHO the rape scene in "12 Years a Slave" was worse considering the ones in Birth of a Nation happens off-screen) to not show it will be to not show the full thrust of slavery. It was a fact. Comedian W. Kamau Bell tweeted a response once to some GOP-er who said that it's hard for a woman to get pregnant from rape because the body shuts it down or some idiocy and Bell responded in the vein of "if that was true why are there so many light-skinned people in Alabama." He deleted the tweet because people found it offensive but that's history.
Madina on the right plays Phiona, and the actual Phiona is on the left. Madina resembles Lupita A LOT. Great casting in that.
Ahhh! Phiona is as pretty as Lupita.
As shown in her film “Mississippi Masala”, director Mira Nair treats the people as Ugandan not as poverty porn subjects, but of fully fleshed and realized people.
I liked Mississippi Masala, Denzel Washington actually became sexy for me in that film. From the pictures, it appears that Nair is photographing her actors properly. I never realized how little Hollywood and European films don't consider people of color when they light a set until I saw Black Hawk Down. Ridley Scott photographed the Africans like they were black gold in that film. And I've seen a few Nigerian films and they do the job properly too.
It's a shame that a movie about smart and talented black girl is not getting the box office that a Disney film about princesses gets. Maybe they should have titled it, Princess of Katwee and had a singing Black Knight dancing around. ::eyeball::🙄👀👅
I am interested in your thoughts on Birth of a Nation. I haven't seen it yet, but I think that I will despite the rape charges (that were dropped against him and the conviction of his friend--invalidated by the courts). I think that I will give D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation a look too while I'm at it. From your plot summary, it appears that both films are Revenge Films and Rape films. They are just coming at it from entirely different social and political viewpoints---and historical viewpoints too. It will be interesting to compare the two. Then I'll be back. ;-)
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Now I must leave before my Brain Farts become obnoxious! 😷
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All that was missing was an Idina Menzel song or merchandising. Maybe they should have commissioned a Phiona doll w/a chess set. Disney cares about color--the color green and getting that $$$.
From your plot summary, it appears that both films are Revenge Films and Rape films. They are just coming at it from entirely different social and political viewpoints---and historical viewpoints too
While I feel not every slave film needs a rape scene (and IMHO the rape scene in "12 Years a Slave" was worse considering the ones in Birth of a Nation happens off-screen) to not show it will be to not show the full thrust of slavery. It was a fact. Comedian W. Kamau Bell tweeted a response once to some GOP-er who said that it's hard for a woman to get pregnant from rape because the body shuts it down or some idiocy and Bell responded in the vein of "if that was true why are there so many light-skinned people in Alabama." He deleted the tweet because people found it offensive but that's history.
Madina on the right plays Phiona, and the actual Phiona is on the left. Madina resembles Lupita A LOT. Great casting in that.
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