No black people
-
davidgoesboating — 18 years ago(June 16, 2007 03:28 AM)
If this is true, then Curtis is obviously a little daft, to say the least. If I made a film, and someone complained of the lack of black people, I would seriously doubt their sanity. Does every film need a specific amount of black people? We live in a crazy world.
-
Donrmcm — 17 years ago(September 11, 2008 09:26 AM)
I agree 100% with your post. Who cares if there are black people in a movie or not? If blacks want to make an all-black movie then I couldn't care less. But for someone to ask why there weren't any black people in this movie smacks of Al "Not So" Sharpism. The question is retarded.
-
focused2289 — 16 years ago(September 08, 2009 07:13 AM)
I really don't feel this question is "retartded" at all. No black people in Notting Hill is a major flaw. If this has been mentioned already,then I apologise, but this area is also known for "The Notting Hill Carnival" (the name says it all!!!) It is the largest street carnival in Europe, it originally started for a means of afro-caribb.. The fact that the carnival did not get mentioned at all was in my opinion a grave mistake adding to the fact that, there were no black people in it, didn't go down well with me at all.
~do not go to sleep in anger, stay up and plot revenge ~ -
full-lips — 15 years ago(February 10, 2011 01:30 PM)
You're a fool. This film is a white wash film!!! The title Notting Hill is very diverse and has a lot of colour of different people!!!
It's like someone making a film about China Town and there is a lot of white people in it! Get my drift??? -
deadanimalfreakshow — 17 years ago(March 30, 2009 06:16 AM)
Its a well known fact in the UK (especially if ur near london)that Notting Hill (The Place) is a known as a VERY mixed race area.
To film it without any black people, asian people etc and just middle class looking white folk is technicly distorting reality a bit, I know its only a movie but come on tae beep Imagine a film featuring a harlem with no black people lol
The makers of the film (no specific names) just thot they'd get away with it cause most of the international audience wld be ignorant of this lol -
siltom1962 — 10 years ago(January 02, 2016 07:45 PM)
If someone complained about this to me and I was the film-maker, I'd tell them to go beep themselves. It's not an artist's obligation to cater to politically correct imbeciles. If somebody wants more of any kind of person in films, they should go out and make their own films and tell the stories they want to tell.
-
curemad_jelly_tot — 18 years ago(August 15, 2007 05:13 PM)
Ok I take offence to this!! Someone said until Love Atually (which I detest) no one would know there were ethnic minorities here heard of East is East, Bend it Like Beckham?? Seen any international footy/soccer matches with the England squad in (not that our performance is anything to brag about)? I don't know why there aren't minorities in Notting Hill though, that is a valid point. My brothers lives in London and he just told me that there are plenty of minority groups around Notting Hill. I never noticed that there weren't any in the film though.
-
paccon4 — 18 years ago(February 09, 2008 03:11 PM)
As a black woman (American), I was not put off by the lack of color in this charming movie. I've been to London once, staying chiefly in the Mayfair district and didn't see a lot of color there so I thought the movie realistic until reading some of the blogs here. Looking at the movie again through this lens, I noticed people of color in some of the street scenes outside the bookstore. More than anything, I appreciated the infusion of diversity into the great soundtrack, especially Al Green and Bill Withers. That more than makes up for the paleness of the main characters.