George Lucas Claims Racism Reason for Lack of Studio Support for 'Red Tails'

[T'Jai]

Im sorry, its all way too coincidental.

I'm not suggesting you go all Black Panther on George, but I think it's pretty obvious subtle racism permeates even people devoted to diversity.

really? people that just wanna help all those poor disadvantaged blacks by not making them do anything and trying to understand their plight are racists?

 

[KalMart]

Yeah, and he's quite the chameleon too. Every movie I've seen him in, he's a completely different kind of character. I didn't even realize he was the same guy.


Why, because of Jar Jar? I don't think he was being intentionally derogatory at all, but his awareness of potential offensiveness when it comes to characters put on film needed some help is all.

Jawas were pretty-much his space-Peurto-Ricans, the Sand People were from Harlem, bad guys were all British, etc.....

 

[RockSP]

George Lucas girlfriend is Mellody Hobson who is black so his not a racist.

Well, one can be racist and still like to screw people of a different race. Racists aren't big on logic (not saying George is one).

Also George Lucas didn't direct Red Tails he wrote and produced it.

He didn't write it either, thankfully. Wouldn't go see it if he did.

 

[Project862006]

yes there has been all black cast movies but look at the budgets

Red Tails has a 58 million Budget

can you name me another all black cast film with a budget even close to that?

did'nt think so

 

[KalMart]

Indeed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114745/

Wow. The only other 'remake' film I can remember that had the same actors as the first was Cape Fear....although I take it this is more of its own version rather than a remake.

 

[SuperSoldier985]

Im sorry, its all way too coincidental.

I'm not suggesting you go all Black Panther on George, but I think it's pretty obvious subtle racism permeates even people devoted to diversity.

I'll let you believe whatever you want.

 

[SuperSoldier985]

Well, one can be racist and still like to screw people of a different race. Racists aren't big on logic (not saying George is one).

Honestly, I don't think he's any more racist than anyone else out there...and using character creations from his films to try and indicate how he feels emotionally about minorities just doesn't seem to hold a lot of weight to me IMO. Him having a Black girlfriend speaks a much larger volume.

 

[CConn]

I'll let you believe whatever you want.

Thank you for the privilege, sir.

 

[chamber-music]

Jawas were pretty-much his space-Peurto-Ricans, the Sand People were from Harlem, bad guys were all British, etc.....

I've never heard anyone say the sand people say the sand people were puerto ricans before....

 

[SuperSoldier985]

Thank you for the privilege, sir.

C'mon, don't be like that.

I just don't think we can put all that on the man just because of some characters that you choose to instill whatever amount of racist stereotype you see into it. I agree to disagree on this subject and in general, I don't care and it never bothered me--I've seen it before way too many times already.

 

[CConn]

No no, Sand People were Muslims.

 

[RockSP]

Spike Lee is not asian

 

[CConn]

C'mon, don't be like that.

I just don't think we can put all that on the man just because of some characters that you choose to instill whatever amount of racist stereotype you see into it. I agree to disagree on this subject and in general, I don't care and it never bothered me--I've seen it before way too many times already.

But that's the thing, I didn't choose to instill anything.

I watched Episode I when I was a kid, heard of the racist talk, but didn't notice it at all myself. Then, going back and watching it as an adult, I was couldn't help but be struck by just HOW obviously derogatory Lucas made some of the races.

You can "forgive" Lucas all you want, that's not going to make me close my eyes on what's obvious just so I can have a more cherry view of GL.

 

[chamber-music]

Spike Lee is not asian

huh?

 

[RockSP]

huh?

Heh, it makes about as much sense as the thread title.

 

[chamber-music]

Sacha Baron Cohen is not kazakhstani

 

[KalMart]

Honestly, I don't think he's any more racist than anyone else out there...and using character creations from his films to try and indicate how he feels emotionally about minorities just doesn't seem to hold a lot of weight to me IMO. Him having a Black girlfriend speaks a much larger volume.

What if having a girlfriend that's Black says nothing more than having a girlfriend of any other skin color?

Honestly...I don't think there's anything racist/bigoted in Star Wars. Avatar, on the other hand....remember the old Tarzan movies?

 

[T'Jai]

Tablet issues not sure how I reposted 30 mins later...

 

[chamber-music]

Jar Jar Binks was nothing compared to the twins from Transformers 2

 

[KalMart]

My question to George is that if he has felt this way about Hollywood's aversion to 'predominantly black' movies/themes/etc. for a while...what did he do about it before his own production? A man of his power, affluence and influence in cinema...if this kind of thing had happened before to other productions, he could have said or done something then about it if he felt it was an injustice. Maybe it didn't particularly hit him until it cost him as much.

 

[KalMart]

Jar Jar Binks was nothing compared to the twins from Transformers 2

The most disturbing part was that they were white robots trying to be black robots.

 

[Spider-Who?]

People don't like to be reminded of the glaring racism of our history, especially when it comes to racism in the positions of power (ie: military, government, churches, etc). This is a movie that focuses on that. During a war that people look at as the US military being the epitome of honor and humanitarianism, this movie depicts it as a racially aggressive white-supremacy fest. The movie features a black cast struggling with this, with a small white cast that is predominately depicted as evil racists.

Anyone who doesn't understand why Lucas believes what he does about Hollywood finding issue with this movie needs to really take a hard look at the last 300 years.

 

[KalMart]

I've never heard anyone say the sand people say the sand people were puerto ricans before....

And you still haven't....but I said the Jawas were.

 

[Pink Ranger]

And you still haven't....but I said the Jawas were.

The jawas were clearly Hungarians. t:

 

[chamber-music]

And you still haven't....but I said the Jawas were.

Where those the things that sold droids?