OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol or you might have to give up your race card, come on over 2 the Other side

My fav parts about I'm Gonna Get You Sucka is with the mother(best scenes)

I'm trying to get it back. I don't eat chitterlings.

I have a Laotian friend who says chitterling is an Asian thing, they eat it for breakfast

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol

how about mayo on my fries

oops

card revoked

Lol. That's not even American, is it?

lol idk my brother and I always eat them like that when we can (with ketchup and mayo) delish

Adorecream said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Loved that line off Tricky

"Good evening ladies, Tricky's the name and love is my game, even if you have no money I will still love you the same".

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That whole movie should be on for those the jive ass banter between Christopher and Tricky, "Brothers, no Officer, you see he is chocolate and I am butterscotch" - "Girl I'ma slap the curls out of yo head"

The line is actually..."girl I'm gonna slap the waves out yo head!"

Adorecream said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I always laugh when I read Purple Rain and Black film together

Why? You know white people considered Prince to be black until Purple Rain. I have been to pre-Purple Rain concerts where over 80% of the crowd was black. I remember when Prince couldnt get a record on anything but black radio. I know that Prince didnt forget that when he did an interview with Tavis SMiley and said as much about the "persuasion" of the people who supported him over the years.

No Shaft? No Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?!? No Black Caesar, No Hell Up In Harlem? Panther? Foxy Brown? Coffey? Malcolm X?!?!? (Only 1 Spike Lee movie?)

Sorry, this list kind of sucks...

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OldFriends4Sale said:

Polo1026 said:

Why? I'm interested to know because the star of the movie is black and the cast is largely black or mixed race. It's about music of course but why do you laugh when black people see Purple Rain and see a lot of black people and identify it as a black movie? There weren't many movie casts in the 80's where minorities outnumbered whites.

Let's clear something up first, because there is a line ^ that I'm not saying. You said: Why do you laugh when black people see PR and see a lot of black people and identify it as a black movie(wtf?).

I had a whole reply typed out until I read that again. I will post the reply later, after I know that you know that line ^ is your words not mine. That is something very different from what I said. It doesn't matter if a white person or black person says it.

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I also laugh(ed) when in the 1980s music was labelled 'Black' music. If someone does Rock Music then situate it in the Rock catagory, If an asian or 'white' person does RnB don't put it in the Pop section put it in the RnB (or back then Black) section

I couldnt agree more about your point on the music. If Madonna was black, she would have been categorized as R&B or black music. THe same goes for George Micheal and Culture Club. Music has always been slightly less racist than movies in America even though early black artitsts had several albums covers with pictures of white people on them to make the reciords more acceptable to white retailers. Displaying a cover with Chuck Berry's or Little Richard's black face on it was forbidden like the Lovesexy album cover was in many stores in the 1988. THe visual medium is a different story - be it album covers or images on the silver screen. BLack people did not see themselves in substantial lead roles until the 1970s blaxploitation trend. Up until then, they were portrayed mostly as servants and buffoons - ignorant, dishonest, and weak. Even today you can see major films being marketed differently overseas than they are in the US - black character images are often altered or even removed for the movie posters and advertisements intended for foreign markets because the studios facilitate the cultural racism in order to insure ticket sales and revenue (see what was done with the blackest movie in such year - 12 Years A Slave). So there is still such thing as a black movie whether we like it or not. HOw many white people are buying a ticket to Selma when they have 5 other "white" options on Saturday night?

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JoshuaWho said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Let's clear something up first, because there is a line ^ that I'm not saying. You said: Why do you laugh when black people see PR and see a lot of black people and identify it as a black movie(wtf?).

I had a whole reply typed out until I read that again. I will post the reply later, after I know that you know that line ^ is your words not mine. That is something very different from what I said. It doesn't matter if a white person or black person says it.

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I also laugh(ed) when in the 1980s music was labelled 'Black' music. If someone does Rock Music then situate it in the Rock catagory, If an asian or 'white' person does RnB don't put it in the Pop section put it in the RnB (or back then Black) section

I couldnt agree more about your point on the music. If Madonna was black, she would have been categorized as R&B or black music. THe same goes for George Micheal and Culture Club. Music has always been slightly less racist than movies in America even though early black artitsts had several albums covers with pictures of white people on them to make the reciords more acceptable to white retailers. Displaying a cover with Chuck Berry's or Little Richard's black face on it was forbidden like the Lovesexy album cover was in many stores in the 1988. THe visual medium is a different story - be it album covers or images on the silver screen. BLack people did not see themselves in substantial lead roles until the 1970s blaxploitation trend. Up until then, they were portrayed mostly as servants and buffoons - ignorant, dishonest, and weak. Even today you can see major films being marketed differently overseas than they are in the US - black character images are often altered or even removed for the movie posters and advertisements intended for foreign markets because the studios facilitate the cultural racism in order to insure ticket sales and revenue (see what was done with the blackest movie in such year - 12 Years A Slave). So there is still such thing as a black movie whether we like it or not. HOw many white people are buying a ticket to Selma when they have 5 other "white" options on Saturday night?

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Agree, a lot of those 1970s Blaxploitation movies did exploit black stereotypes, hence the name!!!

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All the good guys as well, swore, had lots of freaky sex and seemed to act defiant towards white people. You could hardly judge guys like Dolomite, Superfly and the Mack as positive Black role models, these guys were Pimps and Hustlers for fxxks sake.

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Plus nearly all of these movies were cheap and had a kitchen sink mentality marketed by a company (American International) known for cheap beach movies and horror movies before Blaxploitation. Ones like Shaft were okay, but soon you had a flood of bad imitations and tacky rip offs. Movies like Blacula, Darktown Strutters, Monkey Hustle, Truck Turner, Slaughters big rip off, Shaft in Africa, Black belt Jones - I mean for real!!!!!

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Plus like all cheap made for a quick buck fils, the movies had the worst fashions and decor of the day. I laugh more at the striped pimp outfits with purple flares and fedoras, white walls with fake brass ormolu mirrors and shit and everyone has an afro even the white guys. They look dated and nasty. A lot of the music was bad (Although I know some was amazing) but they did at least put blacks in the leading roles. Still only a few truly crossed over. The plot lines were laughable and the movies were just cheep ass. At best they are truly funny.

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But there were later day coon shows, with jive ass talking, over the top clothes, dancing, shucking, jiving, speaking debased ebonics and the proliferation of pimps, hustlers, hoods and people involved in syncopated music. It was 1901 with flares and kung fu basically. Whereas most of the movies on the list are more realistic depictions of Black life as it was (The Color Purple is one of the best here). The other relief being that the list is generally free of all the modern day coonery made by that cross dressing born again brother - Tyler Perry.

I've seen all but 12 Years.

Anyway, that is an excellent list and I highly recommend all of the other films.

PR is commonly considered as a black movie even though it was pretty obvious that the intent was cross over appeal....no biggie.

I would have put Malcolm X on the list instead of PR though.

i like this thread. but GEESH these Mods are SO inconsistent. i was SURE this thread would be moved by now. anywho... i think PR was included for variety but yeah LOTS of movies to include instead.

including one that typically makes lists such as these but is older so lots of ppl haven't seen it. It's called Nothing But A Man, excellent flick. Thing is, it wasn't directed by a person of African descent and gets criticism for that, but the content is on point and makes my "best" list easily

OldFriends4Sale said:

laurarichardson said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Film screenwritten by an Italian-American about a troubled musician from a Interracial family...

The Time: Morris Day and 2 white musicians 4 black

The Revolution: the Kid and 1 black musician 4 white (more politically correct 2 1/2 Jewish musicians)

Jill Jones: mixed race
Apollonia 6: 1 white 1 Mexican 1 Carribean/mixed descendant

Billy: Club owner -black
the Kids family 1 African-American 1 Greek American

An unknown 'black' guy who since the early 80s was passing off as, biracial(not politically correct for the times)

Black cast?

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to keep your race card?

How about to keep your Purple card, there are Prince fans who haven't seen Sign o the Times,

-- It is a black movie because it has a predominanly black cast in of story.

Why does everything have to be classified by race???

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What is this a shopping list?

"Yes I will have 3 blacks, preferably African American rather than Caribbean, 2 Mulattos, A Mexican and Italian Irish mix and 2 and a half Jews please"

"Would like us to slice the 3rd Jew in half"

"No dumbass, make the half Jew, half Christian like Shia LeBeauf, use your brain"

Adorecream said:

laurarichardson said:

OldFriends4Sale said: -- It is a black movie because it has a predominanly black cast in of story.

Why does everything have to be classified by race???

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What is this a shopping list?

"Yes I will have 3 blacks, preferably African American rather than Caribbean, 2 Mulattos, A Mexican and Italian Irish mix and 2 and a half Jews please"

"Would like us to slice the 3rd Jew in half"

"No dumbass, make the half Jew, half Christian like Shia LeBeauf, use your brain"

Very "Dear White People" of you...

djThunderfunk said:

Adorecream said:

Why does everything have to be classified by race???

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What is this a shopping list?

"Yes I will have 3 blacks, preferably African American rather than Caribbean, 2 Mulattos, A Mexican and Italian Irish mix and 2 and a half Jews please"

"Would like us to slice the 3rd Jew in half"

"No dumbass, make the half Jew, half Christian like Shia LeBeauf, use your brain"

Very "Dear White People" of you...

the quoting is off: I did not say: It is a black movie because it has a predominanly black cast in of story. That was said by laurarichardson

Adorecream said:

laurarichardson said:

OldFriends4Sale said: -- It is a black movie because it has a predominanly black cast in of story.

Why does everything have to be classified by race???

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What is this a shopping list?

"Yes I will have 3 blacks, preferably African American rather than Caribbean, 2 Mulattos, A Mexican and Italian Irish mix and 2 and a half Jews please"

"Would like us to slice the 3rd Jew in half"

"No dumbass, make the half Jew, half Christian like Shia LeBeauf, use your brain"

the quoting is off: I did not say: It is a black movie because it has a predominanly black cast in of story. That was said by laurarichardson

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I'm saying it is not a black movie

JoshuaWho said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I always laugh when I read Purple Rain and Black film together

Why? You know white people considered Prince to be black until Purple Rain. I have been to pre-Purple Rain concerts where over 80% of the crowd was black. I remember when Prince couldnt get a record on anything but black radio. I know that Prince didnt forget that when he did an interview with Tavis SMiley and said as much about the "persuasion" of the people who supported him over the years.

But you miss the point, we are talking about a film. Not the reality of the main actor. Was the Kid 'Black' or 'Biracial'? And that movie was nothing about race. I think I've said all this before in this thread. The movie represented Prince's utopia were race didn't mean anything

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People call me rude

I wish we all were nude

I wish there was no black or white

I wish there was no rules

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Uptown is made visible in the movie Purple Rain. No ones race or perceived race made a difference in the movie.

When he wrote "Am I Black or White..." in 1981 he wrote it because people were questioning his 'racial identity/makeup'

And there are 1981/82 interviews where Prince gave hints that he was a mix

laurarichardson said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Film screenwritten by an Italian-American about a troubled musician from a Interracial family...

The Time: Morris Day and 2 white musicians 4 black

The Revolution: the Kid and 1 black musician 4 white (more politically correct 2 1/2 Jewish musicians)

Jill Jones: mixed race
Apollonia 6: 1 white 1 Mexican 1 Carribean/mixed descendant

Billy: Club owner -black
the Kids family 1 African-American 1 Greek American

An unknown 'black' guy who since the early 80s was passing off as, biracial(not politically correct for the times)

Black cast?

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to keep your race card?

How about to keep your Purple card, there are Prince fans who haven't seen Sign o the Times,

-- It is a black movie because it has a predominanly black cast in of story.

lwr001, I mean Laurarichardson

please, it's not a predominantly black cast (I don't know what 'in of story') means? I'll reply to that part when you clear it up

the story is about a troubled musician who is biracial

BobGeorge909 said:

I have found that my race card tends to follow me around without me having to take measures to try and keep it around.....damn pesky thang!....let alone keeping tabs on a list of 28 films.....that like at least 56 hoursnof film or summin...double that as well since roots is prolly included. Am I less black cuz I only seen part of roots...not all of it? I'll make sure to let the racists know so they can take into account that i'm less black and they can be less mean to me .

I think it's the racists that want to revoke your card that you need to worry about lol

OldFriends4Sale said: