Comments on: Review: ‘Dope’ Is A Super Cool Coming Of Age Tale For The Post-Hip Hop And Social Media Generation

By: AccidentalVisitor

AccidentalVisitor — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:10:34 +0000

Last of all, Davey, try not to be such a condescending prick with too high of an opinion of yourself. Your third rate amateurish take on sociology and conditioning is laughable. You are nothing more than just another clueless idiot with a keyboard and access to the internet. Have a good life. Hell, try having a life period.

By: AccientalVisitor

AccientalVisitor — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:10:34 +0000

Next, Dave, your little story about the Africans you know don\’t impress anyone. And you are not revealing any secrets about how many Africans actively try to make a point of commenting that they are not like American blacks. Truth is many black immigrants, even from third world countries, have their attitude when they come to America. In large part that is because the Mainstream society has always painted a negative picture of African Americans to any and all newcomers, even if they are black. But interesting enough if African Americans travel to the same countries those black immigrants come from, they tend to be thought of better than the blacks of those nations. In other words the non-blacks likely will have a higher view of African Americans than they will of the native black people of those nations. I like to think of this as the The Blacks Are Always Greener On the Other Side mindset.

By: AccidentalVisitor

AccidentalVisitor — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:10:34 +0000

Second of all if all it takes to make such well crafted, mainstream films about African Americans is for studios to hire writers and directors who aren\’t African Americans, why then are virtually all the movies about African American life made by non African Americans just as shitty as those made by actual African Americans who lack "insight"? Where are all the classics by, say, white filmmaker tackling African American stories? Seems to me there aren\’t many examples of great work produced by non-black people that touches upon the lives of African Americans. And have you even seen Famuyiwa\’s earlier films? They can\’t exactly be considered being of high standards or "mainstream" either. In fact they are pretty pedestrian. By your own account by Famuyiwa being a first generation immigrant who was thus partially removed from the African American community he grew up in, he should have been able to knock it out of the park the first time he directed a motion picture. But he did not. He had to get better over time and learn his craft. 15 years later he is putting out his first truly acclaimed work. Or maybe he is finally being able to film a script about African Americans that he didn\’t have to get the green light permission from white studio execs who have no clue about African Americans in the first place

By: AccidentalVisitor

AccidentalVisitor — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:10:34 +0000

First of all….Dave, Famuyiwa had the hardest time getting this movie made. All the major studios rejected it because, according to him, it was not presenting black life in a way the white people running the studios were accustomed to. So he had to go independent. And this is a large reason why such so-called "mainstream" movie (as you put it) about African American life is so rare to find. It isn\’t as much as the people born within the community lack self awareness or insight. It is because white people don\’t see black folks as being just like them. They have a limited view of what life is like for black people. So when these folks run into filmmakers who present a view of African Americans that go against the norm, they reject it because it is too alien to them and doesn\’t fit the stereotypes already lodged in their heads.

By: Dave