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>There's a lot of silliness going on here, but I want to make >sure we're not talking past each other on Cuaron.
No. I'm right, and you're wrong. That's the problem.
>The original poster said "No longer can we talk about the >greats and only talk about stories about White Folks only and >their perspective of the world."
Who cares.
>My response is that the major players in this film (studio, >producers, original novelist, main character, and director) >were, in fact, white people. And that the film did not reflect >a "global" point of view. Rather, it has the veneer of >globalism but is just another sort of privileged white >person's view of the world.
Okay. 'Star Wars' was white too. So are a lot of movies that I love. Some movies that I love are black, or Indian, or whatever.
Not sure what this has to do with your inability to get the basic facts straight about 'Children of Men'.
>Now, am I mad privileged white people are making movies? Of >course not. Unfortunately, the majority of great films have >been made by them (hopefully the 21st century corrects the >faults of the 20th in that respect). And this, as I've said >repeatedly, is a GOOD movie. Hats off to the people who made
That was (not) DEEEEEEEP, brother.
>You responded that Alfonso Cuaron, co-writer and director, was >NOT white but in fact Mexican.
He is Mexican.
>Obviously I do not dispute the fact that he is of Mexican >nationality. But, not being him, I would argue that his >experience of the filmmaking world is very much that of a >white director. There are Spanish directors, Argentinian >directors, Brazilian directors, Greek directors, what have >you, that do not experience the same level of (conscious or >unconscious) prejudice that a Nigerian filmmaker, or a >Pakistani filmmaker, or an indigenous-looking Latin American >filmmaker would face.
Good god, what are you saying.
>I don't wish to get into racial semantics about fixed >definitions, because obviously they are all constructs. But if >you ask the financiers of his films, or his actors, or the >European press that adores him, "Is Cuaron a white person?" >they would almost certainly say yes and wonder why you even >asked the question.
Who fucking cares. He is Mexican. He been making movies with Mexican people in them, with the spanish language, repping his culture. For you to call him anything other than Mexican is baseless and retarded.
In fact, he made movies with white people in them, and the RETURNED TO MEXICO to make movies in Mexico with Mexican actors/actresses. He reps his culture, and is very socially conscious.
So miss me with that shit.
>I'm interested in your actual perspective on this issue, if >you do genuinely disagree with me.
I'm not interested in sharing my perspective on race here, because its not relevant. You're only dancing around now because you're wrong.
Just admit that you're wrong.
>Obviously anyone who's an actual Latin American filmmaker (or >other artist looking for funds/press/etc. outside of their >home country) would be great weighing in here...
Doesn't matter, because you're wrong.
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(C)Keith Murray, "Cosmic Slop"
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