How ironic. France banned this flick for lack of diversity.
http://www.thegrio.com/entertainment/why-think-like-a-man-is-banned-in-france.php
http://www.thegrio.com/entertainment/why-think-like-a-man-is-banned-in-france.php
'Think Like A Man' Banned In France
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Soulthinker
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What the f*ck is that explanation? This is very lame:Lack of diversity my butt. I hope to hear on how many IR movies involving BM/WW in France? No doubt not many. After all the centuries of brothers living in France of African,Afro-Americican,Afro-European etc does this blind French committiee banning this flick. Heck,two of the main characters are White!
Soulthinker
Well-Known Member
I doubt it the French are having blinders on when it comes to race. No wonder they lost the World Cup finals years back.
It wasn't banned per Sony. It hasn't been released there yet. All by design.
http://newsone.com/2016880/reality-check-think-like-a-man-not-banned-in-france/
It was another internet falsehood to rile people up.
Story.....copied and pasted......petty.....this is a copy from the website not my words. I know you found confusing in the past.
Has the movie “Think Like A Man” been banned in France, as many American websites are reporting?
According to sources at Sony Pictures U.S., the answer is “Non!”
“The movie was never planned for release in France,” said an executive inside Sony’s publicity department, who asked that her name be withheld.
In other words, you can’t “ban” or “cancel” something that was never slated for release in the first place.
Which is not to say that “Think Like A Man” hasn’t fallen prey to the traditionally low expectations and racist assumptions of movie marketers that keep Black American films from overseas markets — namely that Black movies don’t “play” or “translate” overseas.
In the last two days, a number of American websites including BET, The Root, TheYBF, GlobalGrind, TheGrio, and our own HelloBeautiful have picked up the story — namely that the successful Steve Harvey-inspired movie was nixed by French officials for lacking “diversity” (meaning: “Too Black”). The narrative seems to have originated with blogger Fabienne Flessel on Global Voices; who got the word from French blog PeopleBoKay; who in turn credits this Facebook page as a source for the information.
In an e-mail to NewsOne, Flessel said that she had “no official word” of any ban or cancellation, but that her post was “a relay of what the French-Caribbean blogosphere has been buzzing about,” based on “only the bloggers’ opinions and experiences; some of them saying that they saw ‘Soon in your theater’ posters and received the usual [responses of] ‘We don’t [know] when,’ or ‘Eventually, it seems unlikely.’
“As for this post spreading over the American web,” Flessel continued, “it seems that most websites insisted on the word ‘cancellation’ used by a blogger, instead of focusing on the question of the frustration and unfairness felt by French bloggers from African-descent… of not being able to go to the movies to watch a movie with an African-American based cast.”
According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, the only international territory in which “Think Like A Man” has been released is South Africa.
The Sony rep added: “Given the success of ’Think Like a Man’ in the U.S., France and other international territories are being considered for release.”
http://newsone.com/2016880/reality-check-think-like-a-man-not-banned-in-france/
It was another internet falsehood to rile people up.
Story.....copied and pasted......petty.....this is a copy from the website not my words. I know you found confusing in the past.
Has the movie “Think Like A Man” been banned in France, as many American websites are reporting?
According to sources at Sony Pictures U.S., the answer is “Non!”
“The movie was never planned for release in France,” said an executive inside Sony’s publicity department, who asked that her name be withheld.
In other words, you can’t “ban” or “cancel” something that was never slated for release in the first place.
Which is not to say that “Think Like A Man” hasn’t fallen prey to the traditionally low expectations and racist assumptions of movie marketers that keep Black American films from overseas markets — namely that Black movies don’t “play” or “translate” overseas.
In the last two days, a number of American websites including BET, The Root, TheYBF, GlobalGrind, TheGrio, and our own HelloBeautiful have picked up the story — namely that the successful Steve Harvey-inspired movie was nixed by French officials for lacking “diversity” (meaning: “Too Black”). The narrative seems to have originated with blogger Fabienne Flessel on Global Voices; who got the word from French blog PeopleBoKay; who in turn credits this Facebook page as a source for the information.
In an e-mail to NewsOne, Flessel said that she had “no official word” of any ban or cancellation, but that her post was “a relay of what the French-Caribbean blogosphere has been buzzing about,” based on “only the bloggers’ opinions and experiences; some of them saying that they saw ‘Soon in your theater’ posters and received the usual [responses of] ‘We don’t [know] when,’ or ‘Eventually, it seems unlikely.’
“As for this post spreading over the American web,” Flessel continued, “it seems that most websites insisted on the word ‘cancellation’ used by a blogger, instead of focusing on the question of the frustration and unfairness felt by French bloggers from African-descent… of not being able to go to the movies to watch a movie with an African-American based cast.”
According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, the only international territory in which “Think Like A Man” has been released is South Africa.
The Sony rep added: “Given the success of ’Think Like a Man’ in the U.S., France and other international territories are being considered for release.”
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you mean the interwebz lied to me?......
i should have known some kid rasta bs would end up not panning out........
I know. Say it isn't so. People trying to get people mad over stuff that ..........well isn't true. That's what happens when you get your news from hater site.
