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The Polack MSgt

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4. The miraculous Whiteness of Being?

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Sep 5, 2019, 01:53 PM

Sep 2019

I agree with this:
There are white refugees. I know some Bosnians who are living in Roanoke, VA, under a decades-old resettlement agreement. That could be an awesome movie. Why tell this story?

I believe that most studios think that a white lead is mandatory for mass appeal... I mean. I guess that's what drives these decisions. But this is like "Blindside" writ large.

Take a black story and make it taste white?

Can't understand it

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This message was self-deleted by its author irisblue Sep 2019 #1

This is going to be an interesting movie irisblue Sep 2019 #2

We'll see... Recursion Sep 2019 #3

The miraculous Whiteness of Being? The Polack MSgt Sep 2019 #4

RIght? Recursion Sep 2019 #5