Potentially racist?
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latherzap — 10 years ago(February 06, 2016 10:45 AM)
Somehow "potentially racist" just sounds funny. Like if one were trying to identify bigots, that would be the safest least offensive label to use when there's no evidence. A description one could freely throw around.
Still, you are right that there are few Latinos and blacks in his movies. But there are three blacks in Cosmopolis (five if you count a black extra eating at the diner, and a dead rapper). Believe a black man is briefly seen whipped in Videodrome. Black nurse in Eastern. But, yes, white skin is everywhere.
But seriously, I'm sure the largely white casting is because (excepting Maps) he's Canadian and all of his films are shot entirely in Canada and usually co-funded by the government. It's natural that he often (not always) uses Canadian actors and in fact the use of taxes to co-fund his films makes him legally obligated to have x amount of Canadians. -
Sanctuary20 — 10 years ago(February 24, 2016 10:06 AM)
Hello latherzap,
Yeah, perhaps I tried my best to use the safest words possible, but only because I wanted to give Cronenberg the benefit of the doubt and would never even dream to label him a bigot if the thought had not crossed my mind.
I have yet to see Cosmopolis. The black nurse in Eastern Promises is very much an extra, so I have a hard time counting that.
The Canadian thing could be quite a big factor, true. But isn't he from Toronto where it's quite cosmopolitan and diverse? Guess he must film in more rural parts of Canada, and it's definitely something that would be a factor, so fair enough. I just felt the need to discuss it as i hadn't seeing discuss anywhere.
My strength is greater than my weakness -
franzkabuki — 10 years ago(February 07, 2016 12:33 PM)
Maybe he doesn't feel the need to prove anyone he's no "racist" by arbitrarily casting blacks in his movies for no other reason than to keep the PC brigade happy. Him being Canadian and most of his movies taking place in Canada might also be a factor.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan -
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JohnQuincyPublic — 9 years ago(May 26, 2016 04:05 PM)
Oh yeah? And which films would those be? I can't even recall any characters in his films that are identified as Jewish - besides Freud and Jung, obviously.
Jung wasn't Jewish - he was Freud's "Aryan Prince"!
I got news for em. Theres gonna be hell to pay. Cause I aint Daddys little boy no more -
ketamineman — 9 years ago(June 01, 2016 09:21 AM)
How is it racist if he doesn't have black people in his films???
Here is the definition since you obviously are some millennial that don't know what words mean
racism - the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
now how does not having black characters constitute racism at all???
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x-e-n — 9 years ago(June 01, 2016 06:00 PM)
The OP reminds me of the guy in Do The Right Thing that asks Sal "why are there no brothers on the wall?" Who gives a flying fvck if his films aren't "diverse?" Cronenberg is a genius and maybe he's not preoccupied with such stupidity. It certainly doesn't prove that he's racist! Why even bring this garbage up?
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filmklassik — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 05:55 AM)
Yeah, just like you speculated about how Chris Cooper was maybe a little racist ("He just gives off a racist vibe") and how Edgar Wright may possibly be a racist and now David Cronenberg is possibly a racist, too.
Jesus Christ.
You really are a child of this century, aren't you, because these days for SJWs like yourself to be whit5b4e, male and gasp! possibly Conservative, is to automatically be suspected of racism.
Can't wait for this era of extreme race consciousness to finally be over.
But I ain't holding my breath.