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Post by uriel on Feb 18, 2018 23:39:07 GMT
They could have easily made Martin Freeman's character well meaning but racist, bumbling about unable to do anything. Instead he was a genuinely good guy who nearly died saving Nakia and had a key part in the final battle. So it wasn't a movie that made all white men villains or incompetent, like people accused TLJ of being.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 23:45:16 GMT
They called Martin Freeman's character - "white boy" - which is racist.  |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 19, 2018 0:01:55 GMT
He was a great character and added a lot to the film.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Feb 19, 2018 3:37:27 GMT
He was a great character and added a lot to the film. Although, there did seem to be one or two moments where he was silently waiting to speak in the midst of a scene. |
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Post by politicidal on Feb 19, 2018 3:46:18 GMT
It sounds like he was meant as the POV character for the audience, so who in the audience would want to be an idiot?
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Post by poelzig on Feb 19, 2018 4:00:06 GMT
He was the perfect topping to allow all the silly white liberals that NEVER interact with anyone darker than Styrofoam to feel even better about themselves. Those scrawny white chests were already puffed to bursting for seeing a movie with a mostly black cast and then they get a brit (the whitest white on the face of the earth) heroically trying to save a black girl!!!!!!!! I bet they are blowing each other right there in the theater.
Not all white liberals of course. There has to be some that aren't insufferable douchebag hypocrites.
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Post by thenewnexus on Feb 19, 2018 9:17:25 GMT
He was a little silly at times,other than that he was good
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Feb 19, 2018 13:57:58 GMT
I thought that as well. They showcased strong female characters without turning the men into idiots, and they made the black characters highly competent without turning the white guy into Mr. Bentley from The Jeffersons. (Yet still found a way to have fun with the racial dynamic, such as the line about having another broken white boy to fix.) Just a well made film all around, featuring developed characters with complex motivations.
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