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    Colonialism

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    2 hours ago, jakeem said:

    I was always amused by "District 9" (2009) -- the Best Picture nominated sci-fi film about mysterious aliens interned by South African authorities. I guess you could call it an apartheid tale in the post-apartheid era. Or fear of a new round of colonialism!

     

    Actually the producers were playing on the apartheid era since the plot was an alternative 1982.

    District 9 were inspired by the real life Cape Town's District Six.

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    Colonialism

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    12 hours ago, GordonCole said:

    Back in the days when the sun didn't set on a certain empire, and imperialist ventures were not so frowned upon, the tales of intrusion into far off cultures brings up memories of things like The Jewel in the Crown. But as times passed a deeper kind of distaste for such plundering was noted in some subterfuges in literature of a science fiction nature like those of H.G. Wells and other authors, by the end of the 19th century.

    Many seemingly typical sci-fi stories which have been converted into movies, have this underlying antipathy as their basis, hence can be enjoyed on both levels as a judgment against imperialist empires invasions or just as a tantalizing tale of fiction featuring invaders of many diverse kinds. The inversion of colonialism against those who beforehand were the invaders is most apt in films featuring outer space entities bound and determined to take over earthly civilizations. This tendency to flip the reality on its head is noted even in mid-century movies by Hammer, Amicus and others.

    Name any films featuring such possibly hidden themes that function on both levels.

     

    You are referring humans doing to alien worlds like past empires done here on Earth.  Like people under colonial rule, they fight back.

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    "Babylon 5" had withing its story the inhabitants of Mars want freedom from Earth rule.

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    Black Face in Mary Poppins

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    39 minutes ago, Gershwin fan said:

    https://www.rt.com/usa/450179-mary-poppins-racist-nyt/

    NYT flirts with irrelevancy after publishing Mary Poppins blackface exclusive

    Does the new Mary Poppins film feature blackface? No, but the NYT has nonetheless argued that the movie somehow borrows from racist 1930s minstrel jokes, the latest outrage-laden interpretation of a children’s classic.

    ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ is an “enjoyably derivative film,” but the story of the vivacious flying governess has a dark, racist side, the New York Times opined. The Gray Lady – known throughout the world for reporting “all the news that’s fit to print”— explained itself thusly: In the 1964 film, Poppins accompanies her young charges, Michael and Jane Banks, up their chimney, resulting in her face getting covered in soot. Instead of cleaning her face, however, the magical nanny powders her nose and cheeks to make them even blacker, then launches into a song and dance routine with Dick Van Dyke.

    To be fair, there are racist undertones to the 1964 film (“We’re being attacked by Hottentots!” shouts one of the characters when he sees the soot-covered Poppins and her entourage, using an archaic slur for black South Africans), but does this scene appear in the latest rendition?

    No. Instead, the Times is outraged that a verse from one of the film’s many songs mentions a wealthy widow named Hyacinth Macaw – a clear reference to a talking parrot featured in the 1981 version of the Mary Poppins story, which in turn secretly represented a “negro lady” from the original 1934 version! Scandal of the century indeed.

    With print revenues tanking across the board, The New York Times and its ilk seemingly regard outrage as currency, and taking a modern lens to hokey children’s classics is a guaranteed source of profit.

    Last year, the Association for Library Service to Children dumped an award named after author Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose timeless ‘Little House on the Prairie’ series was apparently peppered with “anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments."Likewise, Mark Twain’s ‘Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and Harriet Beecher’s ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ have both come under the hammer for their (period-typical) descriptions of black people.

    In fairness, these books could actually be read as racially insensitive, unlike 2019’s Mary Poppins. But the media has picked even more ridiculous battlefields to fight the culture war on. Whether it was the Weather Channel reporter calling a snowman a “snowperson,” or a Slate columnist demanding Santa Claus be stripped of his white, masculine identity and replaced with a gender-neutral penguin, journalists have always been at the forefront of the social justice movement.

    On Twitter, commentators ridiculed the New York Times’ latest effort. “I didn't know the NY Times did parody articles now. Cool,” said one. “I suppose it's too much to hope this is satire,” another said. “The world has gone mad.”

    But the line between satire and reality is even more blurred than you’d think. Turns out, the New York Times’ article made almost the exact same point as a tweet by transparently satirical social-justice account Titania McGrath last year. In the original tweet, ‘McGrath’ used the same photo as the New York Times to mockingly call out Hollywood’s lack of racial diversity.

    Parroting satire accounts is a new one for the New York Times, but its writers better watch out. According to its own interpretation of Mary Poppins, parrots are racist.

    If that article doesn't point out the over the top obsession with racism, nothing will.  A soot cover nanny powdering her nose...GIVE ME A BREAK!

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    Black Face in Mary Poppins

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    2 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:

     You're always making with the jokes about racism. But there was something I saw the other day that wasn't really very funny at all. It was a documentary on coal miners in your area who had black lung disease. And they were having all kinds of difficulties with getting medical treatment.

    And as I said a couple of days ago,  white supremacy hate crimes are not a joking matter. And I bet this time you'll agree with me that black lung disease is not funny either.

    I was replying to Dargo's remark about chimney sweepers - dirt / soot / grime and for me coal dust

    I'm certain chimney sweepers had their own illnesses but geeze LIGHTEN UP!

     

    Black Face in Mary Poppins

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    10 hours ago, Dargo said:

    Well then CI, I certainly hope you're not now implying that SOOT would somehow be inferior to, say, dust or any other dirty substance to be found on earth.

    'Cause if you ARE, then you DO know what that would make you, don't ya?

    Uh-huh, a "Dirtist", or at the very least showing the signs of being an "Anti-Dirtite"!

    (...yep, kind'a like what Jerry was once called by Kramer...an "Anti-Dentite")

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    You should see some of our coal miners.

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    Maybe that's why some wants a ban on coal....miners looks so racist. ;)

     

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