23.10.03

You know, if I were black and I did a thorough exam of the film industry today (yes even today!) I’d be disgusted. Now you would think we’ve come much closer to unifying the human race than what we have. Now let’s take a look at one particular movie I”m having a beef with. The Matrix and Matrix Revolutions. now at first you may say, “Huh??, but Mike, like most of the lead actors in the both those movies are black and probably 80% of Zion appears to be black (I’m sorry i you’re offended by my use of the term “black” it’s not meant as a insult, but i find the politically-correct term “African-American” to be a half-assed and utterly misleading term. I mean, I’m Welsh–that doesn’t make me Welsh-American, I’ve never even been to Wales!). But back to my point. Yes, I applaud the Wachowski Bros. for including as many blacks as they did, BUT, look who all these black folk are looking to to save them–The White Boy Keanu Reeves. For years all these people have been searching for their savior and he is found in the form of a white person. Am I reading too much into it? Probably, but I enjoy that sort of thing and it makes an interesting point.
On the flip side, lets take a look all the way back to 1968. George Romero makes horror cinema history with perhaps the definitive Zombie movie, Night of the Living Dead. In the film, for those of you who haven’t seen it, the male lead is played by a black man, who does a fine job i have to add. this was back in the 60’s–not exactly and easy time for any black person. And George Romero took a stand and cast a strong black man as his male lead. Awesome. Of course, he eventually gets shot by a redneck, but we can’t blame the redneck, it’s just what they do–it moves–shoot it.