It's Shocking That People Are Shocked by Best Man Holiday's Success
LatestOn Friday night, Best Man Holiday beat Thor: The Dark World at the box office. While Thor was still number one movie of the weekend — earning $38 million — Best Man raked in $30 million, prompting a bunch of people to question: What does it mean?
A now-removed USA Today article by Scott Bowles was titled “‘Holiday’ nearly beats ‘Thor’ as race-themed films soar.” Pardon? Race-themed? The headline —as well as the thrust of the piece — was criticized and mocked on Twitter, with blogger Awesomely Luvvie writing,
With that logic, then Girls is “race-themed” too. It’s about boring white girls who live in NYC. So was Friends which is about hilarious white yuppies in NYC. And Titanic was a race-themed biopic about white folks who drowned on a cruise ship that crashed.
Bowles also wrote, “Cultures have been hot sellers at the turnstiles this year,” and pointed out that Fruitvale Station, The Butler and 12 Years a Slave also did well at the box office. “Cultures.” Movies about “cultures.” Not Americans, or black people. (The piece has since been rewritten to clarify that other movies with black casts have succeeded this year.