Why do different races feel so forced in movies today when it use to be so natural?

Why do different races feel so forced in movies today when it use to be so natural?

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It's exactly the same. You just let this shit hole poison your brain.

BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING TO OLD FOR THIS SHIT

Then
>who would be good in this movie
>danny glover would be a good fit
Now
>okay people we need an african american, a native american, two chinese, four women and a pangender cambodian

Because both Danny Glover and Mel Gibson were cool as shit even before Lethal Weapon; most of the time now they shoehorn in some random minority figure (oftentimes played by someone with no charisma whatsoever) just so they can say that they are 'diverse', when instead they're just lowering the quality of their production by pandering

Because it doesn't?

Because they're now stereotypes instead of actual human beings.

Example - Rush Hour

Black Cop:
>Crackalacking
>Sex Machine
>Wise-ass

Asian Cop:
>Quiet
>Modest
>Kung-Fu
>Able to crackalack but in a wise, modest way

The reason that OP pic related worked was because one was a family man working to make a living and the other was a badass who pushed away companionship even though it was what he needed all along.

Also they were both competent at their jobs.

Because they are like "okay black guy you act REALLY stereotypically black and white guy you act REALLY stereotypically white. This makes them overly mismatched and feels unnatural cause you know 2 people this different would never hang out together.

In LW there is a black and white guy but them being friends is a possibility cause neither acts like an idiot or feels the need to bring up race every 10 seconds.

Damn you got your answer in before i did.

Now you've got Sup Forums to tell you everything is shitty

The 80s were about aggressive post-racialism.

JEWS AND USEFUL IDIOT LIBERALS LIKE>right its trump fault again somehow for hollywood forcing diversion instead of just letting it happen like it was since the mid to late 80's to early 2000's
go kys
nice

Because it actually used to be natural.

They would cast a black guy because they thought a jive black guy would service the movie and it felt right to have him there.

Or they'd have a white teacher because a white teacher felt right for the circumstances and it might be a little weird to have a polynesian.

Nowadays they cast people of a certain race for the explicit purpose of the having characters of a different race in hopes of appeasing the endless droves of Buzzfeed articles trying to bully them into having their opinion with ambiguous platitudes.

I say this with zero pretension regarding "how society used to be so much better", the 1980s were also abhorrently anal about political correctness. But if they casted a black guy it really was because they thought having a black guy there would make the movie better.

Because Danny Glover played a (black) man who is too old for this shit, not some "muthafukkaazzoncracka" nigger put literally for "muh diversity".

Because back then it was about picking adequate actors for the adequate role. Now it's checkbox filling.

Is the Lethal Weapon show worth watching?

Why do you keep making this thread?

Because I'm right, and you're wrong

Wrong about what? I never argued with you, you addled semen chugger.

because we were well on our way to not giving a shit about race and people cared about qualities of an individual more than the collective

now the liberals have fucking destroyed that with identity politics and set everything worse off by 200 years with a far worse road to travel to where things left off

leftists get their power from having people be at war with each other

It used to feel less forced because there used to be more black people. Thanks to affirmative action many blacks were able to join the middle and upper classes, so many subsequently became white.

Because it is forced and if there isn't enough "diversity" it gets ripped apart by cuck reviewers and negroes/SJWs on social media.

Back then, a black character was just a character.
Now, he is a forced part of the movie that you are constantly told needs to be there to not be racist. So they don't cast black actors because they are good for the roles, they put them in where they don't belong to seem not-racist.

It's Sup Forums bait kino

Yep.
The Obama era, his son lil babby traytray and the "da poe-leece is raycist we dindu nuffin" narrative really fucked race relations up beyond repair.

I like it but it is not nearly as good as the movie.

Because you've let the internet poison your tiny brain and now all you see is confirmation bias for the SJW boogeyman everytime a black guy is in a movie

You're legitimately retarded if you don't realize that part of the joke is one is black and one is white.

Right...
>WE

I don't think it is, but even if so it's far superior to "put this black person in this role because he's black and we need blacks for diversity's sake."

This.

Says you. Race relations have never been perfect in this country. The fact you blame Obama for everything being proof of it.

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fuck off stormweenie

>not appreciating the genius that is A. Wyatt Mann
you know where you belong

Everytime I read A Wyatt Mann comic, it's always in the voice of Dr William Pierce.

>posting skinhead memes on Sup Forums

Odd, since many of the same people who made those old movies are still making movies today. What changed?

>he thinks casting people as different races is new
Fun fact: Red in the original novel for Shawshank Redemption was supposed to be Irish, not black, but no one gave a shit, because there was no Sup Forums or YouTube to cry over the SJW boogeyman back then

but Red wasn't a white European mythological figure

Huh? When did the Lethal Weapon movies ever make a big deal about the races of the characters? I feel that the races of the two leads could be changed to anything and the movies would still work.

Haha you sure showed him fellow redditor *hi fives*

But they're both adaptations featuring characters who are white cast as black. In fact if anything it would be more acceptable to have changes to the Arthur myths, because they're all inconsistent and have been bastardized for years. Lancelot originally wasn't a thing, Percival was the original knight who found the grail, not Galahad, and there are multiple explanations for the origin of Excalibur. Arthurian lore was never consistent

They weren't marketed as a groundbreaking moments for equality in order to sell tickets, they were just movies with black people and white people in them. Alien wasn't marketed like the new Ghostbusters was, because people were slightly less retarded.

I hate Sup Forumstards, but I think this dude might have been posting the cartoon just to show that even back in the 80s/90s, racists were complaining about this stuff.

Nobody gave a shit because he's a great actor and felt perfect for the role. They didn't choose Morgan fucking Freeman because "we need to be progressive"

If you can't see why people would be upset by having a figure who is representative of White European culture and history being portrayed by anyone but a white European, then I don't know what to say to you.

>everytime a black guy is in a movie

That's what you'd like to think that we think, but isn't like that. It's about every time that a black man is exploited as an advertisement tool

I didn't say it made a big deal.

I said it was part of the joke, them being opposites who are forced together and despite their differences they manage to save the day. They could be changed, but if they were both white, both black, both asian it would not have the same comedic punch.

>What changed?
The narrative. Everything has to be "diverse" now or the guys who made it catch hell. This results in forced non-white casting that doesn't work.
They can get great reviews and success and praise just by using black actors, so why wouldn't they?

One of my favorite movies of all time. Fucking love it.

it's funny that every stupid commercial has a dumb white dude and out of nowhere some smart savvy black dude comes in to shake his head at the stupid white boy and give him advice . Black people are always the voice of reason in society...its the dumb white folk that are fucking everything up, didn't du nothin.

>implying there are no niggers in ireland

Just make a movie with Auschwitz prisoners portrayed by all blacks and arabs and the nazis by Jews. The kike butthurt would be catastrophic.

Television commercials are bizarro world.

There might be niggers in Ireland but they aren't Irish.

but that's the point, why the double standard? Why are these movies allowed, if not encouraged to replace whites with other races, but if they were to do the opposite everyone would be enraged?

The thing is that the mainstream left is now openly racist as well. So the situation is fucked all aroung.

It's like when mixed race classrooms felt natural in the northern states decades before their savage southern neighbours were forced to do it by the federal government.

Because (((they))) want whites to go away.

Nice false flag, you stupid redditor

I really feel sorry for black people, they will be wiped out by arabs or turned into slaves again long after white people are all dead a couple hundred years from now, the islamists will rule the planet and turn it into garbage and blacks will be back in chains.

No, I don't see why, because it's fucking fiction. As in, not real. Black knights (as in, skin color) have existed in fiction before. Sir Morien is one example in Arthurian lore. In Orlando Furioso, Ruggiero was a half Christian half Saracen knight who falls in love with a female knight, Bradamante. There were even fictional female knights, like in The Faerie Queene, an epic English poem where the famous "knight saves a princess from a dragon" story originated from. That poem had a female knight named Britomart who beat nearly all of the other male knights and visits Merlin. If those were released now people would be whining about the SJWs because of some shitty YouTube video or tweet they saw

but Lancelot was never black, if they wanted a black knight in there so bad why didn't they use the examples you gave?

its because you,ve been brainwashed by altright media. there is no hope. you will be drafted and die in asia when amerikuka defaults on chinese debt. but at least you have your hate to keep you warm amd joyous.

>stormweenie
dude you're gay as shit

I remember getting on the bus at school as a child and the bus next to us were all black and they used to flip us off and yell shit at us and spit like animals, I've really hated black people ever since. I really don't like you people at all.

Lancelot was never a thing in Arthurian lore. He was a fanfic character thrown in by the French. If they really wanted to be authentic why even bother having him at all?

You have to go back.

maybe because within the 900 years since he was introduced he became an identifiable part of the lore and people would wonder why a character who they've known to be part of the story wasn't included? There's a difference between adding a character while the stories were still fresh and making a drastic change to an established character's image in order to fit a modern day agenda.

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But "drastic changes to a character's image" have happened before too. In the Faerie Queene I mentioned earlier, Arthur is there, only this time he's in love with the Faerie Queen and madly pursues her. If you want to go more recent, "The Once and Future King" is a well-known series of fantasy books that made Lancelot hideous instead of beautiful and Galahad is hated by the other knights. Nobody cared about these changes either, because it's fucking fiction and there is no "canon" to Arthurian legend, and even if there was, no one cared that someone somewhere was doing a different adaptation. The origin of Excalibur, Arthur's iconic sword, is still unknown to this day.

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No one ever mentions this ever.

Diversity central, and it was 1979. Then again it wasn't showing great role models either, but mostly about respect on the street when it came to honorable agreements outside the fights.
also one of those og films about comics in the past that sits with the crow and blade 1

>all this forced racial shit started with Obama

gtfo

Because before their race was part of their character. White guys acted white, black guys acted black. Now everybody acts the same but you still see that they're not the same so it doesn't seem right.

I miss buff white guy and buff black guy fighting against evil.

This. Barry Hussein Obummer created racism.

Having the president do nothing to help the tension of the nation at the time of people using a single event as an excuse of rioting under the name of protesting? Or causing disturbance to the peace if they intended to be lawful?

I don't know and don't care but I remember the daughter of the black guy from lethal weapon was hot as fuck, she reminds me of my niece.

They don't want equality you dense twat, they want supremacy

It's not the movies, it's you.

He meant "this shit hole" as in Sup Forums, not Trump, you fucking mongoloid.

Good post, user.

>Alien wasn't marketed like the new Ghostbusters was, because people were slightly less retarded.
Ghostbusters wasn't marketed as a pro-feminist pro-women movie, bloggers and article writers made a big deal out of it.

There's the chemistry between the actors of course and the fact that the casting director has to fill a quota set up by the production company, but people are missing the main reason why black and white characters seem so unnatural and stilted together:

Naturally, people feel awkward around those of other races. We are a tribal species. Taking that awkwardness and that separateness and ignoring it makes for a piece of cinema that is very bland. We feel we are being manipulated by an idiot when whiteness and blackness are not explored, or worse, are explored in mean-spirited, PC ways. In the 1980s and prior, even well into the 90s, interracial friendships portrayed on-screen had characters poke fun at one another's differences (as most men are to do). This created a sort of dynamicism that is rarely seen today—two people from different walks of life were allowed to exchange in a manor that might hurt someone's feelings. The result of which was that they had in-turn created real-life people, capable of provoking actual emotion and engagement with the film.

By allowing the actors, and by extension the audience, perceive race, the filmmaker(s) created something far greater and more believable than something the relationship between Kevin James' main character's relationship with his black best friend. By embracing stereotypes, they utilised age-old character archetypes that enriched their films.

>all this projection

No one cared because there weren't annoying fart-sniffing clickbait buzzfeed articles going 'THIS BLACK RECAST WILL BLOW YOU AWAY'

>Waaaah why is a French Fan Fiction Fantasy Character black???!

Most people probably don't even know they changed the ethnicity of the characters to be mostly white, in the original book they were iirc entirely a latino gang.

The Lethal Weapon films are one of the best action movies ever.
I wish today's people would need and produced flicks like those.

Because there was a black middle class during the 70's/80's. Was completely destroyed by rap and culture of violence injected by the FBI

They were Greek

One is treating a fellow human being like trash and a need for reformation was needed, another is making super heroes black because just because.... IT"S THE SAME THING.

Good posts user. I've always liked the Faerie Queene myself. Given all the retellings of and changes to the Arthurian legend, being upset about whether Lancelot is black or white seems silly.

tfw all those crazy conspiracy theories sound actually more reasonable than any other explanation.

Are you memeing?

>When did the Lethal Weapon movies ever make a big deal about the races of the characters?
when they was chasing a nazi (german) politician or asian mafias, or Murdough's daughter's boyfriend died because of nigga drug wars

the dead boyfriend was a white dude wasn't he?

Horrible fucking movie, kill yourself.

He's probably referring to Anabasis. Also I think a few of the Dominators were black.

>because he's a great actor
no, that movie only started this meme, about him being the wise-nigger-archetype

I guess it's a little bit of both sides. Hollywood going all in on diversity and shoehorning minorities in every possible movie even if it's set in medieval Europe combined with outcry of both whites and blacks whenever it happens or it doesn't happen.

As for cucks like this guy there is absolutely no hope. I'm an Eastern European myself and strong national identity was needed in order to survive the red menace so I've noticed quite some time ago that talking about things like patriotism, national pride, culture or tradition to a millennial Canadian or German is like explaining quantum physics to a goldfish. They simply don't understand those feelings so they discard them as illogical or primitive.