Is the Magical Negro genre heading for a resurgance?

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Frozenprince said:
"Two years later a pregnant Charlie shows up on Mr. Church's doorstep and asks to live with him. He accepts as long as she keeps out of his business. Charlie notices how Mr. Church comes home drunk and has matches from a place called Jelly's. A drunk Mr. Church finds her snooping, they argue, and he tries to throw her out for breaking his rules. She leaves and runs into her old friend Larsen (Christian Madsen) at the park depressed. A kid on a bike hits Charlie and runs over her stomach causing her to bleed. Larson, who is banned from operating a vehicle due to a previous accident, nevertheless drives her to the hospital just in time. Charlie gives birth to a baby girl named Izzy (Mckenna Grace). Mr. Church comes to the hospital and takes Charlie back with him, and she and Izzy live with Mr. Church. Charlie gets a job as a waitress.

Five years later, Mr. Church becomes sick. Charlie takes him to the doctor, but Mr. Church dies of an enlarged heart. Charlie finds Owen again, and they get back together. Charlie meets the owner of Jelly's and finds out that Mr. Church played the piano there. The film ends with Charlie writing the story of her life with Mr. Church and calls it Cook."

That's fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked up.
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Oh my fucking god.
Like seriously?
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Aiustis

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Same Kind of Different as Me was a book that wasn't really magical negro at all, closer to mighty whitey if anything.

There wasn't really much drama. Just a friendship that developed between a homeless man, who'd pretty much been raised in slavery in the mid 1900s, and an art dealer.
 
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Grizzlyjin

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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Shouta said:
Zwellweger? She probably says bad surgery but it has to be too much surgery.
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Was it filmed before the new Bridget Jones movie? She looks like her old self in the trailers for that. Here I literally didn't know that was her until someone mentioned it.
 
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Banana Aeon

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Frozenprince said:
"Two years later a pregnant Charlie shows up on Mr. Church's doorstep and asks to live with him. He accepts as long as she keeps out of his business. Charlie notices how Mr. Church comes home drunk and has matches from a place called Jelly's. A drunk Mr. Church finds her snooping, they argue, and he tries to throw her out for breaking his rules. She leaves and runs into her old friend Larsen (Christian Madsen) at the park depressed. A kid on a bike hits Charlie and runs over her stomach causing her to bleed. Larson, who is banned from operating a vehicle due to a previous accident, nevertheless drives her to the hospital just in time. Charlie gives birth to a baby girl named Izzy (Mckenna Grace). Mr. Church comes to the hospital and takes Charlie back with him, and she and Izzy live with Mr. Church. Charlie gets a job as a waitress.

Five years later, Mr. Church becomes sick. Charlie takes him to the doctor, but Mr. Church dies of an enlarged heart. Charlie finds Owen again, and they get back together. Charlie meets the owner of Jelly's and finds out that Mr. Church played the piano there. The film ends with Charlie writing the story of her life with Mr. Church and calls it Cook."

That's fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked up.
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facelike

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Fuck that Mr. Church movie.
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I'm so pissed.

I only made it about halfway through those trailers, couldn't take that shit.
 
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Valkerionseven

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Damn that Mr. Church plot summary.

I guess it is true these movies never did go away. We all just moved on to super hero movies... or if I may be so blunt...
Light skinned brother comes in and sweeps the lady off her feet, saving her from family troubles and romance... wait was this a boondocks reference or am I crazy
those seemed to be way more common the last 10 or so years.
 
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ryutaro's mama said:
DMczaf called it.

MNCU is needed.
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James Earl Jones' character from Field of Dreams emerges from the cornfield in a leather trenchcoat. White tourists gape in awe at him as, without a word, he strides across the magic baseball field where Negro League players are still not allowed to play, and commandeers a vintage '46 Ford from the valet. He ignores an aged Kevin Costner's pleas to tell him what the "other side" was like as he burns out of the gravel lot and onto the long country road against traffic.

What none of the onlookers know is that, in Terra Haute, Indiana, the most incompetent white man ever is about to stumble into the biggest challenge of all time. Somehow, this white guy has to win every gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on his own, through the power of believing in himself, or millions of people are going to die.

But James Earl Jones can't do it alone.

He has a team to assemble.
 
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DpadD

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Is there an official definition for racism somewhere?

This is a genuine question. The dictionary defines it as a superiorty complex and all that, but the way GAF talks about racism seems much, much broader. Is there an all encompassing definition I could see?
 
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Slayven idk when you changed your avatar but unapproved whole heartedly. DOOM been in heavy rotation in the whip the past week. Might even get my goomba outfitted with the mask.
 
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daveo42

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The first one had that turn from possibly not to full blown "he just did everything" in like half a second. The second tho...that's a film catered to white people to make them feel better about themselves. "Hey look guys! I have a black friend! He's homeless and he saved our whitebread, rich-ass marriage! Isn't that great?!"

Man...
 
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Frozenprince said:
"Two years later a pregnant Charlie shows up on Mr. Church's doorstep and asks to live with him. He accepts as long as she keeps out of his business. Charlie notices how Mr. Church comes home drunk and has matches from a place called Jelly's. A drunk Mr. Church finds her snooping, they argue, and he tries to throw her out for breaking his rules. She leaves and runs into her old friend Larsen (Christian Madsen) at the park depressed. A kid on a bike hits Charlie and runs over her stomach causing her to bleed. Larson, who is banned from operating a vehicle due to a previous accident, nevertheless drives her to the hospital just in time. Charlie gives birth to a baby girl named Izzy (Mckenna Grace). Mr. Church comes to the hospital and takes Charlie back with him, and she and Izzy live with Mr. Church. Charlie gets a job as a waitress.

Five years later, Mr. Church becomes sick. Charlie takes him to the doctor, but Mr. Church dies of an enlarged heart. Charlie finds Owen again, and they get back together. Charlie meets the owner of Jelly's and finds out that Mr. Church played the piano there. The film ends with Charlie writing the story of her life with Mr. Church and calls it Cook."

That's fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked up.
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Slayven said:
Spoiler

She goes to college which he paid for, then gets pregnant and becomes homeless. He lets her live with him, then she goes through his shit and he gets mad. She learns he is something beyond cooking, then he dies. Then she gets rich telling the story
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How do you guys know this stuff already? The movie is slated for 2017.
 
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Slayven

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Rhaknar said:
Getting powers from a panther god is pretty magical dude
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That is not what Magical Negro means,

In order to show the world that minority characters are not bad people, one will step forward to help a "normal" person, with their pure heart and folksy wisdom. They are usually black and/or poor, but may come from another oppressed minority. They step (often clad in a clean, white suit) into the life of the much more privileged (and, in particular, almost always white) central character and, in some way, enrich that central character's life
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White people, yall are fucked up. How many movies do we need about random magical negros fixing up your lives? Who greenlights this shit?

Frozenprince said:
"Two years later a pregnant Charlie shows up on Mr. Church's doorstep and asks to live with him. He accepts as long as she keeps out of his business. Charlie notices how Mr. Church comes home drunk and has matches from a place called Jelly's. A drunk Mr. Church finds her snooping, they argue, and he tries to throw her out for breaking his rules. She leaves and runs into her old friend Larsen (Christian Madsen) at the park depressed. A kid on a bike hits Charlie and runs over her stomach causing her to bleed. Larson, who is banned from operating a vehicle due to a previous accident, nevertheless drives her to the hospital just in time. Charlie gives birth to a baby girl named Izzy (Mckenna Grace). Mr. Church comes to the hospital and takes Charlie back with him, and she and Izzy live with Mr. Church. Charlie gets a job as a waitress.

Five years later, Mr. Church becomes sick. Charlie takes him to the doctor, but Mr. Church dies of an enlarged heart. Charlie finds Owen again, and they get back together. Charlie meets the owner of Jelly's and finds out that Mr. Church played the piano there. The film ends with Charlie writing the story of her life with Mr. Church and calls it Cook."

That's fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked up.
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Zaventem

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Whatever gets black actors work without resorting to playing a slave role for the umpteenth time guess. That mr church trailer is everything I dislike about trailers rolled into 1, I mean they practically spoiled the whole movie in a trailer.
 
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