Count Dookkake said:
Inglourious Basterds made a ton of dough and got all kinds of kudos and accolades.
Surely something like that could be done with a skew toward black history.
Any of you guys making movies or know people who are... there is money waiting to be taken.
If you think about it though, there aren't enough watershed moments in black American history that could plausibly be written about in a Tarantino-ish way that would be able to exist safely in both the realms of hyperstylized/exaggerated action and dialogue and a non-horrible historical context.
Inglourious Basterds works amazingly because it is a story about WWII...and
not the Holocaust. Black American history basically is the Holocaust (read: shit that is sorta terrible) until 1964. That slave plantation breakout idea mentioned before is a great idea (though I can't exactly figure out how to write that film without it being too campy to universally take as awesome - more "Boss Nigger" or "Shaft" than "Inglorious Basterds"). What other historical events in Black American history could you write about that wouldn't be kind of fucked up for people to watch?
The assassinations of Malcolm X or Martin Luther King? Nah...black people will be hurt by it, and white people will be like "fuck dude, not dealing with this".
The Tuskegee Air Men maybe? They actually exist in history; nobody would be able to accept a story where they were a team of ultra-awesome, super-skilled fighter pilots in the same way we have the fictional team in Inglourious Basterds.
I guess you'd need to create a plausible fictional story...but it's hard, since we know that black people in the military wasn't exactly commonplace or okay until relatively recently. A story about an amazing black codebreaker/spy/sniper in WWII would be like "okay...we know they didn't have that shit back then, stop playing" and would instantly be thought of as too campy.
Such a movie would be fucking amazing...it's just a matter of figuring out:
- how to make it historically plausible
- how to find a portion of Black American history that could be told without scarring viewers/making them turn away from atrocities (without making the story's setting/plot ignore its historical context)
- how to make it interesting in a way that appeals to all viewers while still having it be a movie about black people
Simply reskinning "Juno" or "500 Days of Summer" or "Brick" or "Mysterious Skin" or "Superbad" or regular movies like that with black characters and adjusting a few things is easy enough.
Creating a non-Blaxploitational historical exploitation film (like a Spaghetti Western, or a Euro War film) with a black cast that could be appreciated by all kinds of viewers? That's difficult.
...also, finally:
POPEYE'S > KFC. You motherfuckers must be allergic to SPICE and FLAVOR if you don't agree. :lol
Seriously though, KFC has a lot of salt, and fat and whathaveyou going on...it certainly tastes good, but it's in a blander way than Popeye's. Popeye's has a more diverse flavor, more spicy than salty. Put hot sauce on that shit, and it's a wrap.
