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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 22:01:19 GMT
This movie? Not really... We all know that Grady was a "villain", and didn't want Halloran to get involved in stopping the caretakers' plans to Kill everyone... I agree with kingkoopa I don't see why anyone would be consider this to be racist at all... Jack had to kill someone... No matter what their skin color was... Black, White, Red... (Purple... LOL!) Based on the story, it made sense that Jack would end up killing "Halloran"... He posed the greatest threat to him... The fact that Scatman Crothers was, himself, black, is beside the point, and MOOT... I don't see how anything in this movie could be considered "racist"... and I don't think anyone involved in making the movie were trying to send out that message to the audience... I believe if anyone ends up believing that this movie is "racist", then it's that person's problem, and not the movie's... Lol, I started this thread because my sister just watched this for the first time. Her thoughts are this, lol:
She said that she thought that it was racist that the black guy got killed, because he got killed right after showing up. She said these exact words "Well it's like of course we have to kill off the black guy right after he shows up, we have to get rid of 'him'." That's what she said ,kind of imitating the people that wrote this movie, I assume. Needless to say I couldn't disagree more. And of course he didn't even show up right before getting killed, his character was established earlier.
And she also said this, about the N word use, lol:
Exact words, "The part where they had the racist word, it really bothered me. I understand that people talked that way in the 1920's and in the 1980's but... it really bothered me."
Lol. Ummm, my sister doesn't have a brain.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Mar 21, 2019 22:13:04 GMT
No. The word is used by a villainous character whom the audience is hardly expected to root for. He also encourages Jack to murder his wife and child in cold blood. Objectively speaking, that's far more messed up (I do recognise that the butler is likely a manifestation of Jack's subconsciousness).
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