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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He totally interrupted her, and then talked over her when she tried to interrupt him back.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njFBkJSpUrY

If you honestly think a man would generally be just as sensitive to a female prostitute's point of view than a woman would, I think you're nuts.

But I guess I'm not really that surprised that the only black woman got talked over in a room filled with 7 mostly white guys and a white woman.

I don't think Damon is racist, but he definitely did a little whitesplaining soft shoe there.

I think PP above had a good point about the panelists perhaps being at cross purposes:  Damon didn't want to have to change the rules of the contest to make it about picking the best directors FOR THIS SCRIPT, he wanted to pick the best directors, period.  Whereas Brown was basically saying, given the script we have, we have to pick the best directors for this script who will be able to[b] deal with sensitivity to racial and gender dynamics[/b], and I don't think our best options are necessarily the teams of two white guys.[/quote]

This is bull.

A Soldier's Story and Amistad were directed by Jewish white guys.  You can be a good director regardless of what you look like.  So women don't always need to direct movies about women and black directors don't need to limit their movies to stories about black people.[/quote]
Give me a break, it's not about just being "a good director" -- it's about being able to tell the story from an authentic place of personal experience and perspective. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but there are a lot of movies out there that a lot of folks think are "great",  but the people who are the subject of the story -- think suck -- the perspective is off, the viewpoint is skewed and it comes off as just another stereotypical piece of mess. [b]Blind Side is a good example. That story was so way off from the "real" story it is shameful. [/b]
Give people a chance to tell their own story -- share their viewpoints. [/quote]

I only saw this movie on a plane so admiteddly wasn't paying much attention but can you elaborate? I did read Michal Lewis' book because for one thing I love Michael Lewis' style and for the other, I'm a born and raised NY Giants fan and a book about LT's evolution of the o-line was going to be right up my ally. I clearly loved the book and Oher and family never had any issue with it from all the pieces I watched with him during his college and then draft into pro career. But I didn't intensely watch the movie so the parts I saw seemed to line up pretty closely with Lewis' narrative (as he worked with them directly as subjects). What did they veer away from?[/quote]
See the link below. The bottom line is very often according to hollywood the saviour and the hero in black people's lives is some white person.  It's the White Shadow syndrome. Black folk don't do well until white folk come along and show them the way.
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2011/02/08/133590180/beyond-the-blind-side-michael-oher-rewrites-his-own-story[/quote]Thanks for posting that link to the story about Oher's book. On another note, what bothered me most about the movie was when Sandra Bullock goes to Michael's mom's home in public housing and a gang leader threatens to come across town and rape her white daughter. I live next to public housing and no one talks like that. Turns out this is not in the book at all. In fact the local gang leader tells the author that they would not try to involve Oher in the drug trade while he was in school. There is some kid on a football team who talks smack about his white stepsister but it's not an actual threat to rape her. The false story in the movie bothered me the most because it fits into the fears of suburban whites that if they just walk into a poor black neighborhood, someone will attack them immediately. The reality is that most people are just worrying about their own business. [/quote]

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