Comments on: Clerks II intelligently tackling racism?

By: Wayman

Wayman — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:40:38 +0000

I’m really not sure if this racist scene was placed in the movie so much for “educational value”, but more for “shock value”. It was even said a lot of the scenes, like that one, were improvised. It just makes me wonder how a racist term like that flies out of a white actor’s mouth so freely, while “improvising”. I don’t think it’s so much on the “deep side” as on the “ignorant side”. But, either way, I had no real intention of seeing the movie anyway, so who cares? The only people seeing it will be the nerds who were obsessed with the first movie.

By: eric daniels

eric daniels — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:03:00 +0000

Who cares calling someone a porch monkey is the way to racial tolerence, I would rather bail on this society than have that conversation “on race”. Because it is just the lesser evil or a right v wrong issue, How about presenting a film about racial sterotypes without the confortational BS. That why I act macho on this site at times, because being reasonable on race and it’s complexities will never get you nowhere.

By: Gandalf Mantooth

Gandalf Mantooth — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:48:47 +0000

Hmm, she said “smart,” which in Hollywoof parlance means “in a way so as to offend everyone, giving us the opportunity to argue that we are equal opportunity.” Well, that’s usually what Smith does, and most mainstream film makers do. I’m just waiting for the one who is not named Spike Lee who actually takes a stand instead of presenting “all sides.” Though Smith usually just picks one black person to act as the Voice of Reason and comment on those crazy white folks (Mallrats, Dogma)