The black "personalities" on TV and film. Let's discuss...
Options
Mister B.
Members, Writer Posts: 16,172 ✭✭✭✭✭
Now, we've all heard of the six different types of personalities black men display on TV/Movie time, as well as the two main personalities black women display.
Men
Buck - The oversexed black male, ALWAYS trying to smash everything on screen.
Brute - The "angry" black male. Always fighting or killing or into some violent ? . Threatening to see on-screen.
? - The "sellout" black male, shucking and jiving everywhere they go, making a spectacle of themselves.
? - A combo of the ? and Buck, with the loud-ass suits, and the "? better have my money" mentality
Uncle Tom - Different from the ? , the Uncle Tom does lives their lives in total inferiority to the white man, believing that they ways are better than black culture, and even themselves.
Magic ? - Normally comes out of "nowhere", uses their 'powers' to help out a main white character, then disappears again. Non-threatening, calm, not a sellout per se, but goes that extra mile to help the main white guy in a film save the day.
Women
Mammie - Nurturing. Comforting. Sometimes sassy, she's there to provide "motherly" roles to everyone.
Jezebel - The ? . The one always trying to smash every good-looking guy, usually for her own agenda, be it a come up, or on some revenge ? .
How many characters you think you could place in those characters, both on TV and film?
Men
Buck - The oversexed black male, ALWAYS trying to smash everything on screen.
Brute - The "angry" black male. Always fighting or killing or into some violent ? . Threatening to see on-screen.
? - The "sellout" black male, shucking and jiving everywhere they go, making a spectacle of themselves.
? - A combo of the ? and Buck, with the loud-ass suits, and the "? better have my money" mentality
Uncle Tom - Different from the ? , the Uncle Tom does lives their lives in total inferiority to the white man, believing that they ways are better than black culture, and even themselves.
Magic ? - Normally comes out of "nowhere", uses their 'powers' to help out a main white character, then disappears again. Non-threatening, calm, not a sellout per se, but goes that extra mile to help the main white guy in a film save the day.
Women
Mammie - Nurturing. Comforting. Sometimes sassy, she's there to provide "motherly" roles to everyone.
Jezebel - The ? . The one always trying to smash every good-looking guy, usually for her own agenda, be it a come up, or on some revenge ? .
How many characters you think you could place in those characters, both on TV and film?
Comments
-
Which one of them hoes got dat cyber Monday ? for sell?
Grandpappy got a new computer he retta trick -
Same things can be said about white character on TV.
Watch any redneck show.
Watch that show with Charlie Sean. He stay smashing hoes.
Seinfeld smashed a new ? every ep.
-
watch better television and film
-
You can't blame Hollywood for ? roles black actors accept.
Nobody is forced to play into stereotypes.
I couldn't care less either way. -
Blame our tendency of staying in our genre lanes and not wanting to branch out
-
It's a damn shame that a lot of these white produced movies have deeper black characters than the black produced movies.
-
but if those are the only ones that written into a show what are black actors supposed to do?
we need to press on the writers an support more black writers.
i actually hate how they have black people sound on hbo.....they all sound stupid cuz thats how white people see us -
Early&Often wrote: »In media covet and respect what you produce, cause at some point it will become popular, when that day comes have rules that you live and die by, or someone will find a way to do what you produce without you..case in point, tyler perry movies
when they were plays they had reason, depth, hope, and respect
when they first became movies, they were the same and black people flocked to them, but he didnt covet his audience or the rules he set when writing his plays
for more money and a bigger appeal he went went away from those rules and played into the stereotypes set for blacks by whites in the business...shortly after that movies began to be made to where people off hand thought they were tyler perry movies...they learned to make his movies without him because he didnt respect what he produced
Like John Singleton said...they found away to make black movies without black people
so why support it? -
Thank ? for scandal
-
How bout its ? the new.. British/White
as far as unnecessary out of place we just threw it in there to grasp the demographic kind of a way -
Seems like you described every emotion/character available. I mean im black but what else is there supposed to be? I mean white characters fits into those roles too most of the times as well.
-
Hannibal 5150 wrote: »You can't blame Hollywood for ? roles black actors accept.
Nobody is forced to play into stereotypes.
I couldn't care less either way.
White folks would just black face it. -
One thing I've noticed is that many black directors havent caught on to the fact that black society is changing
We're a more socially diverse & conscientious people. We don't find the same things interesting or funny that we did 20-30 yrs ago. As much as we like to hype up black films in the 90s, a lot of those films woukd flop today because it doesn't connect with the modern black audience. -
Does media reflect society or does society reflect media
-
but if those are the only ones that written into a show what are black actors supposed to do?
we need to press on the writers an support more black writers.
i actually hate how they have black people sound on hbo.....they all sound stupid cuz thats how white people see us
Tyler Perry has a huge multi-media platform... this clown continues to create and write single dimensional characters that neatly slot into the O/P's list of Black character traits.
fact is, most Black people like simplistic characters, plots and storytelling, as a result you get ? like this, by Blacks for Blacks:
The Game
Meet the Browns
Scandal (the story arc is awful)
House of Payne
The Madea franchise
Soul Plane
etc.
-
Rosebudd B'Dose wrote: »but if those are the only ones that written into a show what are black actors supposed to do?
we need to press on the writers an support more black writers.
i actually hate how they have black people sound on hbo.....they all sound stupid cuz thats how white people see us
Tyler Perry has a huge multi-media platform... this clown continues to create and write single dimensional characters that neatly slot into the O/P's list of Black character traits.
fact is, most Black people like simplistic characters, plots and storytelling, as a result you get ? like this, by Blacks for Blacks:
The Game
Meet the Browns
Scandal (the story arc is awful)
House of Payne
The Madea franchise
Soul Plane
etc.
Bruh, you're an idiot. -
Top 10 Grossing Black Movies of ALL TIME... aside from Ray (a biopic) & Dreamgirls (a remake of a play) name one movie that you'd consider to be a Great Story.
1. Coming To America (1989) $288 Million
2. Bad Boys II (2003) $272 Million
3. Big Momma's House (2000) $173 Million
4. Dreamgirls (2006) $154 Million
5. Bad Boys (1995) $141 Million
6. Big Momma's House 2 (2006) $137 Million
7. Boomerang (1992) $131 Million
8. Ray (2004) $125 Million
9. Little Man (2006) $101 Million
10. Are We There Yet? (2005) $97 Million -
Everyone seems to love the new Best Man movie, while I found the characters and story very predictable and cliche. I especially cringed @ Nia Long's "independent black woman" facade. It was a ? film imo. My problem with a lot of black films is that they're based on relationship drama and revolve around simplistic characters w/o much depth. (Tyler Perry, Think Like A Man) But I can't really blame the studios though, because the majority of the Black population flocks towards these movies.
-
6 of those are good to great movies...Rosebudd B'Dose wrote: »Top 10 Grossing Black Movies of ALL TIME... aside from Ray (a biopic) & Dreamgirls (a remake of a play) name one movie that you'd consider to be a Great Story.
1. Coming To America (1989) $288 Million
2. Bad Boys II (2003) $272 Million
3. Big Momma's House (2000) $173 Million
4. Dreamgirls (2006) $154 Million
5. Bad Boys (1995) $141 Million
6. Big Momma's House 2 (2006) $137 Million
7. Boomerang (1992) $131 Million
8. Ray (2004) $125 Million
9. Little Man (2006) $101 Million
10. Are We There Yet? (2005) $97 Million
-
big mommas house? 1 and 2? smh
-
-
Rosebudd B'Dose wrote: »Top 10 Grossing Black Movies of ALL TIME... aside from Ray (a biopic) & Dreamgirls (a remake of a play) name one movie that you'd consider to be a Great Story.
1. Coming To America (1989) $288 Million
2. Bad Boys II (2003) $272 Million
3. Big Momma's House (2000) $173 Million
4. Dreamgirls (2006) $154 Million
5. Bad Boys (1995) $141 Million
6. Big Momma's House 2 (2006) $137 Million
7. Boomerang (1992) $131 Million
8. Ray (2004) $125 Million
9. Little Man (2006) $101 Million
10. Are We There Yet? (2005) $97 Million
The top grossing films of all time period are mostly simple as well...
1 Avatar
2 Titanic
3 Marvel's The Avengers
4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
5 Iron Man 3
6 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
7 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8 Skyfall
9 The Dark Knight Rises
10 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
-
-
Early&Often wrote: »Not saying black people cant do it, the best move i've ever seen was Higher Learning...no one comes near spike lee when he is on point
higher learning was directed by singleton not spike lee
-
Rosebudd B'Dose wrote: »Top 10 Grossing Black Movies of ALL TIME... aside from Ray (a biopic) & Dreamgirls (a remake of a play) name one movie that you'd consider to be a Great Story.
1. Coming To America (1989) $288 Million
2. Bad Boys II (2003) $272 Million
3. Big Momma's House (2000) $173 Million
4. Dreamgirls (2006) $154 Million
5. Bad Boys (1995) $141 Million
6. Big Momma's House 2 (2006) $137 Million
7. Boomerang (1992) $131 Million
8. Ray (2004) $125 Million
9. Little Man (2006) $101 Million
10. Are We There Yet? (2005) $97 Million
The top grossing films of all time period are mostly simple as well...
1 Avatar
2 Titanic
3 Marvel's The Avengers
4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
5 Iron Man 3
6 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
7 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8 Skyfall
9 The Dark Knight Rises
10 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Skyfall was as simple as boomerang?
Lord of the rings was as basic as big momma house?
I don't believe you
