Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a bible thinking Midwest town with ZERO minorities. This could have been my town.
I grew up in the Midwest in a town of about 10,000. There was one Black kid, two Asians and one Latino in our high school.
Anonymous wrote:I take your point OP. But I don’t think footloose is the best example — a film about an insular backwards conservative town afraid of change and modernity—integrating that group would have been difficult for the narrative.
But talk about any of the John Hughes movies, or Fast Times’s, or Bill and Teds, or clerks (I guess that’s 90s).
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a bible thinking Midwest town with ZERO minorities. This could have been my town.
I grew up in the Midwest in a town of about 10,000. There was one Black kid, two Asians and one Latino in our high school.
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a bible thinking Midwest town with ZERO minorities. This could have been my town.
Anonymous wrote:There were black people in Kansas in the 80s.
Regardless: go back and watch movies from the 1980s, and you’ll notice a total lack of any diversity. The lack of *any* representation—even a token amount—is glaring.
Anonymous wrote:Just finished rewatching Footloose.
Filmed in 1984 when 12% of the American population was Black, yet there are zero Black kids in a movie about dancing.
Remember the big dance scene at the end? They had white guys breakdancing. This was at the height of the breakdancing craze btw. All white cast, and they didn’t even bother to add any Black or brown dancers in the big school dance. Zero.
Pretty shocking.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What percentage of rural Kansas was Black in 1984?
6%
But does it matter?
Movies are made for a national and ultimately global audience.
America was 12% black in 1984.
And they opted to only have white kids in the big dance scene. Probably 100 kids, and all are white. They feature dancers, including a blue eyed blonde hair guy doing MJ-esque breakdancing moves, and it didn’t occur to anyone on the set to add any diversity?