It works everytime. This is pathetic and degrading.
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mickfoley123 — 14 years ago(February 27, 2012 07:09 AM)
Sorry but that's just ridiculous. By your logic any afro-american actor playing almost any character form the 17th century to the 19th century (and possibly up to the 50s or 60s) would be playing a subservient role.
They would be because that's how history was.
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mickfoley123 — 14 years ago(February 27, 2012 07:12 AM)
Her character was far from subservient. Ugh Watch the movie!
I don't need to. She played a black maid with poor English in the early 1960s in the deep South. If she went any lower she would have been a full out slave. -
mickfoley123 — 14 years ago(February 27, 2012 07:07 AM)
if she hadn't won you'd probably be COMPLAINING that she didn't win cause she is black.
Wrong. I would have been happy if she didn't win. Why would I be happy with a black woman winning an Oscar for playing a maid? -
mickfoley123 — 14 years ago(February 27, 2012 07:41 AM)
To bad cause Octavia seemed really happy. It was already pointed out that not all black oscar winners have played maids but of course complaining just makes us feel better.
Earlier I clarified my point and said negative stereotypes or subservient roles.
Oscars
Denzel Washington - Training Day
Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
Hattie McDaniel - Gone With the Wind
Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost = played a con-artist and the "magical Negro"
Monique - Precious
Golden Globes
Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple, Ghost
Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
Monique - Precious
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Movies that received a lot of praise in recent years
The Help
Precious
The Blind Side
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Smackdown735 — 14 years ago(February 27, 2012 07:10 PM)
mickfoley,
I understand what you're saying but trying to explain it to some of these people is like trying to teach algebra to a hamster.
THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND
You'll be met with the same tired, regurgitated canned responses:
"Stop playing the race card"
"Stop whining about race"
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moviegeek1 — 13 years ago(May 25, 2012 08:43 AM)
Right, because only black people win for playing "negative" roles.
Elizabeth Taylor -
Butterfield 8- Prostitute
Shirley Jones -
Elmer Gantry - Prostitute
Charlize Theron -
Monster - Prostitute/Serial Killer
Anthony Hopkins -
The Silence Of The Lambs - Serial Killer
Jane Fonda -
Klute - Prostitute
Kim Basinger -
L.A. Confidential - High-class prostitute
Mira Sorvino -
Mighty Aphrodite - Prostitute
Julia Roberts -
Erin Brokovich - Trash-talking, "sassy" single mother.
Kevin Spacey -
The Usual Suspects - Devious criminal
Kathy Bates -
Misery - Psychotic, obsessed fan
Christolph Waltz -
Inglorius Basterds - Nazi
Heath Ledger -
The Dark Knight - The Joker
And the list goes on and on. I guess in your mind, the only people who are allowed to play villians or less-than-desirables are white actors. I guess you'd prefer that black actors only play heroes. Then there's the list of white actors who won for playing drunks or drug addicts.
And 5b4people have the nerve to criticize Ms. Spencer for playing a maid.
Sister, when I've raised hell, you'll know it!
- Prostitute
