Potentially racist?
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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. -
GoodRed — 9 years ago(October 31, 2016 01:50 PM)
Ethnicity is constantly tokenize16d0d by Hollywood; I would rather have one single fleshed-out minority character than a ton of meaningless, poorly-conceived token characters written in purely to make easily-offended idiots happy. If Cronenberg wrote minorities into his films just to appease people, he would cease to be an artist. One can't just skin-swap a character and call it diversity; that's what's wrong with Hollywood.
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Kyumonryu — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 06:03 AM)
I don´t think that he is racist. He just does not cast token ethnic characters. But there is nothing in his movies that would make you think he is a racist.
The word racist gets thrown around today rather easily.
but they hung him anyway.
Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry. -
Jay Jay — 3 years ago(May 15, 2022 10:50 PM)
Yes, obviously. Any director who goes 50 years without casting a single person of color in a lead or supporting role, has clear racial bias (and possibly hatred) towards POCs.
You can add Martin Scorsese to that list also.