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JamalSpunky said:
TheChosenOne said:
Until Hollywood is comfortable showing BM and BW together....we won't see much in the way of BM and WW.
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What you may be suggesting is that Hollywod isn't comfortable with black male sexuality period and there is some truth to that. Still Hollywod isn't as much as uncomfortable with BM and BW together as it is disinterested with the concept. Black romance/black love has never captivated Hollywood nor the world for that matter. Masybe if its done right....

Many WM, WW and even some BM are just not ready to see (insert good-looking BM star) hop on top of Kate Hudson, Angelina Jolie, etc.
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Perhaps but you also better add BW sure ain't ready and may never be at this rate. But do you wait until every damn person is ready? There are so many folks who still aren't ready for gay relationships and gay sex on their TV screens or on the movie screns and these folks may be more vocal than those who are against interracial stuff. And yet gay themes films or shows with gay charactes and gay relationships increasing pop up in rates greater than IR relationships involving black people. Hell doesn't like every HBO show have a gay character or something?
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This is the problem in a nutshell....if people aren't comfortable with the concept of black-on-black romance.....they certainly aren't going to be comfortable with BM/WW romance (likely the most taboo of all relationships).

By showcasing positive BM/BW relationships the world sees that BM are more than just dildos with men attached to them. When that happens....BM overcome their image as being oversexed....and then it becomes harder to explain the lack of BM/WW relationships on TV.

I'll say this though....Baby Boomers and Generation X are more progressive than previous generations...but I don't think real changes will be made until Generation Y (people born roughly between 1980-1999...others say 1980-1995) which has a diverse population of over 75 million people....ages and enters positions of power in the entertainment industry. Each generation that is further removed from slavery, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement and the Regan era will likely be more liberal.
 
Sifu said:
pettyofficerj said:
as dave chapelle so eloquently put it...the bane of the "white man," is the black man's penis..

hollywood can't feature us in too many movies that showcase our deep relationship skills, afterall, we're just sexual t00ls....


get us in some more movies about police officers who are corrupt, and get innocent white cops to join their corruption, and maybe we'll get a few more oscars

:P
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Officer J you hit it on the head, 'specially the stereotypes!
As far as bm/ww relationships and steamy scenes - you just gotta look deeper, from back in the day with Jim Brown. You should hear what Raqel Welch had to say about their love scene, to movies like the Company with Ellen Burstyn and Lawrence Fishburne, and there is some other movie with Bookeem Woodbine and some blond actress that is pretty big where they are in a relationship, then in that kids movie Holes they got a more romantic type love story that develops between Dule' Hill and Patricia Arquete that takes place in the 1800's Texas - the ladies would like it I think girls check it out Holes. So let me think and more will pop into my head like Kieth David and Markie Post are a married couple in Something About Mary, does anyone remeber Markie Post from Night Court :shock: she was still fine in Something About Mary - looked better than Cameron Diaz! Hey and while we are on Hollywierd, and knowing that I'm mixed so I see the world from my perspective, usually. Do you peeps remember the Jefferson's? How is it that the Willis' kids (they had two) came out one white the son and the other the daughter is black? What the hell were they thinking, why not just get Helen Willis' real life son Lenny Kravitz to play the part of one of the kids? Did they expect people to buy this bs? Just some funny shit they think up, but then again Ricky and Lucy didn't even sleep in the same bed!?!
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I thought I was the only cat who liked to see Larry with Ellen, in Bad Company. There are some movies that I watch, just to see some IR. IR is so under-appreciated in this country, afterall. She was a bit older (i'm 26), but she was still attractive and had a sexuality to her.

Wesley Snipes almost had some IR going on in Rising Sun also. A pretty blonde was trying to seduce him a bit, but the scene fades out. Sean Connery was waiting for him in their car, so nothing happened.
 
Thanks Officer J "Bad Company" thats the right title, yeah it's over ten years old but it's a good flick, and yeah your the only other cat I know of who's seen it and liked it :D
 
Sifu said:
Thanks Officer J "Bad Company" thats the right title, yeah it's over ten years old but it's a good flick, and yeah your the only other cat I know of who's seen it and liked it :D
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I seen it back when it first came out..

Fishburne was really starting to come up in hollywood, at this time..

He had some other movies hit the screens like Just Cause ( with Connery), Hoodlum ( remember the hype over that movie?? That was before "American Gangster") and then the whole Matrix Trilogy.
 
pettyofficerj said:
lol..

i just got finished watching "Life," with eddie murphy and martin lawrence..

in the movie, Bokeem Woodbine ( a young black actor ), knocks up some white guy's daughter...

the white guy finds out about this, because his daughter gave birth inside their mansion, and the baby turned out to be black..

so..the white guy goes to the prison line up to see who's baby it was...

needless to say, he never found out who the daddy was, but Bokeem and the white girl stared at each other, nonchalantly..

that part of the movie was around 1940-ish, but you did have IR mixings way before that..
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If I'm not mistaken that white lady was played by Poppy Montgomery of "Without A Trace" fame.

as for hollywood.... the day you see Angelina Jolie with a black boyfriend/husband on-screen, is the day Obama runs for his 2nd term as US president

:)
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Well. Jolie did have a black boyfriend (Mekhi Phifer) in the little seen flick "Hell's Kitchen". Here's the plot summary from IMDB:


When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one (Mekhi Phifer) lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend (Angelina Jolie) wants her new boyfriend (Johnny Whitworth) to kill him. Only trouble is the boy friend knows that the fault was not the ex-con's and can't bring himself to do the town. Meanwhile the ex-con tries to turn his life around by becoming a boxer and training under a former heavyweight contender (William Forsythe)

Now, I saw this flick about ten yeasr ago. It starts off with a scene from the past before Mekhi's character went to jail. Its short. Possibly intentional so you don't have to give the audience too long of a loving, warm moment between Mekhi and Jolie's characters. But it speeds up to the present and most of the film has Jolie plotting against Mekhi and trying to get him killed. Eventually she learns the truth and the two of them get back together. But here's the predictable rub....all the steamy scenes with Jolie is with the new white boyfriend, before she learns of his deceit. Jolie and Mekhi never even kiss or do anything else that's intimate in the movie. The memory of that sticks with me.
 
pettyofficerj said:
.....Well. Jolie did have a black boyfriend (Mekhi Phifer) in the little seen flick "Hell's Kitchen". Here's the plot summary from IMDB:......
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little seen flick
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It was a small, budget independent film (and not a very good one) that starred people who at the time were not well known to the American public. How else could it be anything but "little seen"?

By the way have you seen it? If not then wouldn't that make you part of the problem in terms of it being "little seen"?
 
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