>Shooting in Ghana involved malaria, extortion, and near-death experiences. But that paled in comparison with trying to win funding for a ‘black’ film, says the director
>“There just wasn’t enough money and enough time in a country that isn’t used to hosting a film production like ours,” says Fukunaga. “So things that you take for granted like food, transport and hotels became an issue.” We were losing stuff and things were getting stolen.”
>“I think, in general, cinema is dominated by white, middle-class males,” he says. “That’s just fact.
>Does he think a whiter cast might have meant a smoother road to securing finance? “Yes, without a doubt,” he says quickly. As long as the films are about this white person’s issue and that white person’s issue, they’re going to continue to make those films.”
I always wondered why them black millionaires never fund the things black people want to see funded.
Ryan Brown
Maybe the reason we can afford to make so many films is that we don't steal everything that's not nailed down.
Cameron Turner
And?
Jacob Foster
Black millionaires dont get there acting like black. Yes i'm talking about the urban artist too, even if they try to pantomime the black culture.
They are equivalent of a black face without the paint.
Kayden Butler
they want a black director
Lucas Phillips
>majority of burger population is white >international audiences - including non whites only want to see white films >waa why does no one want to watch my non white garbage
hmm, really makes you think
Dominic Mitchell
Damn, he's fine. Handsome for a man
Benjamin Williams
I forgot to add, only a certain kind of black director, they wouldnt fund a Tyler Perry for example
Easton Adams
>Jews/Whites build something >"Give it to us"
Ian Bell
Cause most black millionaires act like white people and usually hate other black people
Daniel Watson
>((((white, middle-class males))))
Isaac Martinez
Yes White middle class males are the largest target audience for cinema, so it's hard to get funding for things that don't appeal to them
This is a racial reality, not racism
Henry Bennett
>this is a controversial statement on Sup Forums ffs
I'm eternally grateful that he made Beasts of No Nation. That film was fucking spectacular. ANd even with its extremely low-budget, I'm not surprised it was so hard to get funding - it's exactly what hollywood refuses to make
Josiah Jones
Is he just stating facts or is he insinuating that it's our fault niggers don't pay for shit?
Hudson Lewis
There was a scene in Beasts where they're running and this black guy's semi-erect dick is hanging out. It runs like for 10 seconds too.
That's when I knew the director was a cuck.
Didn't help that the next scene was a gay rape scene.
Ayden White
Yes goyim those pesky middle class white people sure are holding hollywood hostage
Leo Campbell
>I should be entitled to funding for my shit films
Why do these people exist.
Brody Nguyen
agu
be doing dis ting for me
Jacob Davis
>black actor gets cast in predominantly white-cast film/tv-show >Sup Forums blows a gasket >"REE make your own films!!!"
>An Asian-American adapts a book by a African author set in an African country with a 99% black cast >struggles to secure funding >film is amazing >"REEE no one wants to fund your coon shit!"
Liam Jackson
>they wouldnt fund a Tyler Perry for example
This. Tyler Perry films are one of the most degrading things ever to black people
Daniel Edwards
He meant he's insecure about his status and how he got there so he is lashing out at whatever target is hip right now, white people are the biggest target by far. Self hating people are scum.
Landon Bell
DUH.
Because white people are mainly the audience? Why would I care about some niggers and their issues?
Cameron Long
user, his dick wasn't semi-erect.... how can white bois even compete?
Camden Rodriguez
THIS IS WHY WE NEED COMMUNISM
SUPPLY AND DEMAND CANNOT ACHIEVE SOCIAL JUSTICE
Robert Stewart
Not sure what sort of point you're trying to make here, or contradictions you're attempting to point out?
Julian Wright
It's like any system, once you make it, you end up trying to protect the system that lifted you up. Just look at T.I and Lil Wayne squabbling over BLM. Because people like Lil Wayne and he's rich, of course he isn't going to support a bunch of assholes tearing shit up.
I love directors crying they can't get funding for their projects that have no chance at making money in a country dominated by white people yet they're other countries and places to get financing.
We're not only ones making movies. Go to china bro, they'll let you peddle chinese propaganda movies and wushu and shit
Or go to europe and making shitty italian arthouse stuff.
He doesn't have to stay here. See all problems he's having in Ghana.
Asher Nguyen
On the lack of funding available for Nicholas Winding Refn's films
>DUH.
>Because plebs are mainly the audience? Why would I care about some art-fags and their issues?
Joshua Peterson
>go to western country mostly inhabited by white people >complain about white people running it
Do people complain about too many Indian men in Bollywood? If they do, are they just as insufferable? All these people could fix their issues by just working in other countries.
Adam Russell
that wasn't what I said
Nathan Gomez
>Thursday 15 October 2015
This is old OP.
Why are you posting this?
Wyatt Hill
>middle-class what the hell is he talking about here? what the fuck is his definition of middle class?
Julian Thomas
I mean, white people have been making movies about how wacky Africa is forever.
He's hardly ushering in a new era of tolerance.
Easton Martinez
Are jews white or not!
Owen Reyes
Sup Forums won't be happy until there are no black people on screen and their excuses for why are just that, excuses The real reason is insecurity at the prospect of successful black people
Connor Jenkins
literally not true though
Jordan Garcia
>complain about white people running it But Sup Forums told me that jewish people weren't white...
Jayden Robinson
the reason is because of people like you, you should be gassed.
Adam Ward
Jews are Jewish
Jaxson Rogers
>go to western country mostly inhabited by white people
A good half if the US is also populated with other ethics. This is not necessarily a white country
Juan Flores
It's almost as if there exist non-white countries that you could make your own movies in if they weren't shit.
Aiden Bell
Uh how do you think madea movies are funded
Caleb Rodriguez
America is 75% white people. Males watch more movies than females.
In a shocking twist most movies are focused around white dudes.
Evan Jenkins
You can't be serious
Levi Gomez
Nah he's spot on. But given the context of our society, there's pretty much nothing THAT wrong with the way things are.
Jaxon Richardson
>75 ahahahahah
Jackson Mitchell
He's a fantastic director and writer and he is completely right.
Connor Allen
Actually, there are too many minorities in cinema as it is.
And hispanics are too few in representation compared to nigs.
Hudson Brooks
Isn't it kinda... Not so surprising that people would be reluctant to fund a film in a place where >malaria, extortion, and near death experiences are likely to happen?
All the people funding movies want is a return on their investment. "I never lost a dime on a film I declined to make" is the motto. I'm not saying he shouldn't have made the movie, but if you're saying all this shit went down in the process, is it really even a racial issue?
Jayden Gutierrez
>His father Anthony Shuzo Fukunaga was a third-generation Japanese-American, born in a Japanese internment camp during World War II,[3] who worked for a generator company and later for the University of California, Berkeley. His mother Gretchen May Grufman is Swedish-American H A P A S Y . N D R O . M E
also sweden fucking yes
Leo Cruz
I love how obvious it is that the majority of posters haven't seen Beast of No Nation.
Jose Moore
Yeah this, look up the film The Dead from 2010, they had a fucking miserable production and it had a white director and white lead actor
Gavin Howard
>HOW DOES THE CINEMA LOOK? >ALL WHITE SIR!
Liam Ross
>america >white top lel user Wow great argument fagtron you sure convinced me with those hot opinions
Aiden Turner
as if hollywood has some kind of obligation to make movies for the entirety of the world. as if those countries and those people/races can't make their own movies in their own countries..
Brandon Nelson
fuck off cunt
Joseph Torres
>75%
Lmao
It's around 40% (real)white at best. America lumps in mestizos, north africans, and middle easterners as white.
Chase Evans
How the fuck is anyone working in film middle-class.
Eli Foster
latino women are the biggest moviegoers
Dylan Lewis
lol What happened user? Did your oneitis get BLACKED?
Hudson Flores
t. nigger lover
Elijah Rogers
Only the people at the top get paid well
Jaxon Rogers
"I THINK........."
"THAT'S JUST A FACT."
WHAT?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
Julian Garcia
>We were losing stuff and things were getting stolen.” >hurr it's the white man's fault
Jackson Peterson
Why can't we secure funding to appeal to less than 10% of American and 0% of the world?
Austin Cox
>Shooting in Ghana involved malaria, extortion, and near-death experiences. why is Africa such a shithole?
Zachary Peterson
>blacks stay almost exactly the same God bless abortion
Nolan Rodriguez
t. cuck
John Jenkins
Right, so force the companies here to cater to your vision of how things should be rather than create functioning production studios abroad. Asians don't bitch because they make their own shit. Same with the industry below America and India.
Jack Johnson
Don't forget Italians man. There's a reason blue eyes were much more prevalent before they came.
Luke Bennett
The film deserved funding for the same reason PTA's films and Jaramusch's films deserve funding - because it was a goddamn masterpiece
No one's blaming the producers, I don't think. But when a low-budget film won't get funded because of box-office fears, the director/writer/actors are allowed to be frustrated
Nolan Evans
I don't even have to read this shit, I can tell what he's saying just by looking at his man-bun
Jordan Watson
they do. but also, being a millionaire isn't enough to fund a movie. no one wants to personally invest 40 million in something that could flop. you need backing from a corporation like a studio.
Gabriel Walker
Because >warring with other nations >fucked by other nations for materials >dictators are allowed to run free
Jace Campbell
You forgot:
>the population consists of low IQ, r-selected subhumans
Christian Lopez
delet this i'm not listening la la la
Ryder Baker
More like no proper edumahkation, quit memeing.
Grayson Martin
I agree but you can't say "no one gave me money cause the cast wasn't white" when it wasn't even about racism but about expected income of the film.
Ethan Cox
People actually liked this hack?
Eli Ramirez
That was probably a factor. Hollywood producers are less likely to bank on a film like that without any major white actors in lead roles The biggest actor was Idris Elba, and he hasn't actually demonstrated much box-office draw
If it had been set in Eastern Europe instead with a white actor of similar fame, I think the argument is that it would have been easier to get funding - which sounds plausible
Ian Peterson
I thought western cinema was dominated by jews
Anthony Reed
they're only jews when the film has a liberal message when someone (assumedly) liberal is complaining at them, then they're white and based
Nolan Hall
No, they're still jews.
Cooper Lee
>Cinema is dominated by white, middle-class males
It's almost lie white middle-class males created the industry and made it what it is today.
Is his next big statement "Chinese Film is dominated by Asians"?
Daniel Garcia
99% of successful, functional and wealthy blacks HATE other black people and prefer living in white communities.
Ryder Perez
He's not wrong though.
Every white person I've watched Beasts of No Nation with just didn't get it. They either couldn't relate to any of the characters or they got bored because lol not enough action XDDD
William White
>"REEE no one wants to fund your coon shit!"
But that's true. If it wasn't, why was it hard to get funding?
Typical Liberal logic.
Michael Smith
>shit that never happened
Carter Butler
>This is not necessarily a white country Non asians live in plenty of asian countries. Plenty of non-Indians live in India.
The point stands.
They only want "diversity" if it means "less white people".
Thomas Edwards
Can someone please explain to me why it is ALWAYS the job of whites to give non-whites screen-time and acting roles?
Why is it never, ever blacks employing other blacks?
Josiah Bell
because muh slavery and jim crow laws
Ethan Moore
I guarantee you almost 95% of the people who saw this movie were white.
Asher Stewart
>jews >white
James Lewis
I didn't say it wasn't true The film did get funded so clearly someone wanted to fund it I'm not a liberal but nice strawman
Typical cuckservative logic
Carson Jenkins
>the people who pay to see movies dominate the film industry GEE WHIZ THANKS CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!
Brayden Hall
Fuku Cary.
Brandon Hill
Who are you shouting at? Are Jewish people white? Cause they make up the majority of investors Is Carey Fukunaga black? Cause he's the one complaining about how hard it was to get funding
Did you even pay attention to what you're complaining about? Cause you look like an idiot >inb4 you don't respond because you're too butthurt