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07/17/09
We invented prom from scratch - but we didn't watch movies for research.
ALSO - I LOVE Lena Horne! her talented, beautiful genes have obviously carried.
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And now I need to rewatch Running on Empty. I assume HBO no longer plays it once a week.
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This sounds way more ragey than I mean it. It's obviously something we all know about. Nepotism is in every industry. I guess we just hear more about the entertainment industry in general.
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Nepotism only opens a door, and leaves the person feeling (in their heart of hearts) like they don't really deserve what's on the other side; I prefer to kick down the door after much effort - that way I know I got there through my own will and talent. Not to mention that the journey is always the best part.
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I kept wanting to escape that family and the scene; very uncomfortable and emotional.
07/17/09
Also, that chanting business really drove me nuts.
Apart from that, I thought it was well done.
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Being "post-racial" is SO groovy when you're a privileged rich person.
PS: Rachel Getting Married was whiny, hipster, self-indulgent bullshit that made me want to pull my eyes out.
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Also, February Black History annoys the shit out of me too. I wish for the day, it won't be necessary because it's treated as a regular part of American history and not ghettoized to the shortest month of the year.
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But, and this kind of speaks to your point about Black History Month, plenty of couples who went before us were required to think about (and talk about, presumably) how special and unique they were--because it was dangerous.
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And you know, she is making an entire movie about race, so I would imagine that requires a lot of sitting around talking about race on her part too.
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I liked that she resisted the popular urge to make this a "message movie" about interracial relationships. We already have one "Crash."
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When people say things like well, *I* don't notice race, and if *you* do, I guess it speaks more about YOU than ME, so YOU must be the racist! that's completely ridiculous and strawman logic.
And, yes, I wish BHM was EVERY month, I wish we didn't need to 'force' people to recognize it, but the very fact that Lumet is so flippiant about it proves why it is still needed, and it's been 40 years of activists and edcuators battling to make sure that BHM exists that gives her the luxury of thinking it is unneccessary.
07/17/09
I've always been of the belief that people who say they don't "see color" or "notice race" are lying. One can both "see color" and "notice race" without it being a negative connotation. Further while we are all more alike than we are different, there are distinctions about ourselves which should be acknowledged, understood and honored.
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Does that mean if she had these exact same opinions about being "post-racial" but was a working-class biracial woman who had to struggle to open Hollywood's doors, you'd agree with her?
Because I don't think that's the case. I get the impression that your actual opinion is: "being post-racial is SO bullshit" -- full stop. So, OWN it. It's a valid POV that many agree with. The straw man of classism and privilege is unnecessary to your argument.
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But the fact of the matter is, my entire point, that I don't think she would have these opinions if she was a working class biracial woman who benefited so greatly from wealth, privilege, and nepotism her entire life. It is a LUXURY to say things like that, to take for granted that you can get a movie made as a biracial woman because, you know, your Dad is Sidney Lumet. It is a LUXURY to say well, gosh, no one *I* know sits around and talks about race. It is being a privileged rich person that allows her to be "post-racial." I, frankly, don't know a lot of "working class" people who are "so over that whole racism thing." Of course Jenny Lumet wants to puke when she has to hear about BHM, she's been lucky enough to be exposed to a wider world her entire life, when it comes to art, culture, and history. But it is the very height of ignorant privilege to not acknowledge that experience is not universal. And, to me, that's not a strawman, it's a simple fact.
07/18/09
As far as being in an interracial relationship; I sometimes ask my boyfriend "Voice of White America" questions not only because he's white, but because he grew up in a town that was nearly all white and he has a unique perspective on race relations that comes from growing up in a vacuum and most of his early ideas about people who weren't like him were made solely through white interpretations of notions of race, not through personal experience. I find it useful to hear about that perspective because my go-to emotion is "Wow that's stupid" and he can often provide a more nuanced view. Needless to say, he's expanded his worldview since his childhood. Many people have not.
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I guess what I mean to say is, I get what she's saying, and I get that she wants to have a sense of humor about things. But that doesn't mean that the issues that exist go away.
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Maybe I am just projecting :-)
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