How is this different from the way white directors have portrayed black people on film over the years?
Jaz Singh I totally disagree with that statement. These characters are not made to look silly at all. And as for the way they speak; that’s just the way those people speak. I didn’t direct them to speak like that. How do you feel about black street culture being appropriated in film by white filmmakers for comic effect, as in Malibu’s Most Wanted? Brett Donald The appropriation of black culture started 400 years ago, so it’s not new. I mean, what was Al Jolson doing? What was Elvis Presley doing? I feel, in a lot of cases, we’re just being laughed at. The thing that some people still don’t understand is that there is difference in comedy between laughing at someone and laughing with someone and with a lot of these things, I think they’re laughing at black people. There are some things about us, that I don’t think are funny. Forget about Malibu’s Most Wanted, there’s another film out called Bringing Down The House with Steve Martin and Queen Latifah. Just from seeing the TV commercials
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