My black co-worker asked me today to reccomend him a white people movie, and he’d give me a black people movie.
At first I reccomended Live Die Repeat (also known as Edge of Tomorrow) then remembered Wes Anderson exists and said anything by him maybe.
He reccomended Salt and The Tourist. I intend to watch them on the weekend.
White Chicks. Then you’ve got both bases covered.
White Men Can’t Jump may cover both bases as well. :)
I’ve gotten that answer a lot in person too. I totally agree. 😂
White people movie: Death at a Funeral (2007)
Black people movie: Death at a Funeral (2010)
Bonus fun: Peter Dinklage plays the same character in both.
I guess it depends on what kind of white people movie.
White: The LOTR original trilogy
Black: Coming to America, They Cloned Tyrone, Get Out (gave 3 movies since the trilogy is technically 3 movies)
Bonus
Asian: Kung Fu Hustle, Old Boy (very dark thriller warning), Spirited Away
Hispanic: Instructions Not Included, Coco, Pan’s Labyrinth
I’d be quite irritated if I offered to “trade” movies with someone and I gave them an 80 minute comedy and was told to watch a 12+ hour trilogy, lol. They are indeed white movies though.
Source: half-white LotR nerd
White movie: The Princess Bride
Black movie: Poetic Justice. Also, since the holidays are coming up, The Holiday and The Best Man.
Also, your coworker likes Angelina Jolie and that’s all their picks mean. It’s like they didn’t even understand the question
Oh god this coworker is a lot of fun but he kinda way off in right-field most of the time mentally.
Die Hard and Caddyshack come to mind as white people movies.
I actually forgot that I said Die Hard first but he’d seen it. 😂 Caddyshack is I think the best suggestion so far!
White: Harold and Maude.
Black: I Love Boosters.Salt and tourists are excellent movies not sure how those fall under black peoples movies though
Uh oh. I’m starting to notice that they’re ALL white movies. It’s almost as if the entire industry has been dominated by a single voice since it’s inception. 🤔
Yeah. I thought it was bizarre when some people complained about a black actor playing the little mermaid. We could list Americans of northern European ancestry playing almost every other race, ethnicity and nationality without anyone blinking an eye and we could do it for days without being close to a complete list.
I’m pretty sure Fight Club is a white movie, and it’s actually good, or I’ maybe m just that white.
It’s very white technically (cast), but its various messages speak more to class struggle and patriarchy which affect all the races, so I personally wouldn’t consider it a “white movie” in the same sense as some others in this thread.
I think I’d still say it’s a white movie. It’s about masculinity, consumerism, and class which are universal challenges, but it looks at them through the lens of how they impact white men.
I never got any “antipatriarchal” vibes from Fight Club, maybe I should watch it again, lol. It did feel very “nihilistic anger and sadness that turns into violence”, it made me feel like I was listening to Papa Roach or Evanescence (which are as white as art can get, and I enjoy both just for the record, I had the CDs and everything!).
Fight Club at its core is about how society fails to provide men a safety net for their emotions / personal development and instead pushes them to things like consumerism and unrealistic expectations of masculinity. This is what triggers the narrator to become nihilistic, angry, and eventually violent. The reason society is the way it is towards men is because it was set up that way by the patriarchy to keep them in their societal place and so that capitalism can keep capitalizing.
There’s lots of articles about it (and how its so often misunderstood). I’d also recommend the book, as the different ending drives the point home in a different way imo.
Interesting point about evanecessence (JFC what a word to spell). I get more depression rather than anger from them lol
I agree with everything in your first paragraph up until the last sentence! But I don’t wanna start a long argument (which happens to me often… I’m starting to think I’m the reason 🙃) and hijack the thread, if that’s okay. I’ll definitely read the lit hub article though, and thanks for the comprehensive reply. 👍
GATTACA is about class struggle while being exceptionally white about it
A white movie: The Men Who Stare at Goats
A black movie: Green Book
I am not really sure what is “white” and “black” movies, but I was born in Vilnius, Lithuania myself, with “white” skin color if that makes sense.
In this case, I had around 30 titles in the mind for the “white”, but for some reason, the first 5 that I recalled and imagined was:
- Run Lola Run (1998);
- Suicide Room (2011);
- The Place Beyond the Pines (2012);
- The Book Thief (2013);
- Head Full of Honey" (2018);Hackers, The Matrix, Ferris Bueller, Risky Business
Bonus: Abre los Ojos is the Spanish precursor of Vanilla Sky
Live Die Repeat is Japanese though, I don’t get the “whiteness” in it, personally. IMO, some great “white people” movies, understood as Anglo-Saxon/Germanic/Nordic (else I’d have to include Spanish, French and Italian which certainly have a very different vibe), could be “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, “In Bruges” or “Master and Commander”.
