Yeah she was a subject but I don't know she was invested in the portrayal or project at all
Agreed, I just don't think it has any value. Some people watching are dumb, and I don't think any white people should be attempting to give commentary on blackface being bad by doing blackface.
Yes, so I don't think white people should add blackface roles to the list of things modern audiences misunderstood and thought was worth worshipping when they saw it and didn't get the commentary
yeah, im not a big fan of those examples even if you know, i like iasip. i think iasip especially kind of gets away with it because ostensibly these characters are like a diagram of how not to be
I can see how this would be the case for subtler instances, but for me at least I don't think they're problematic because in both cases they very explicitly call it out as being fucked up or ridicule the characters doing it. They don't necessarily rely on viewers to know the issues being it and glean the satire from that, they outright state the the fucked up nature, albeit in an overly dramatic fashion as satire tends to do
Not only that, it's main point is a critique of Hollywood whitewashing. They literally cast a white dude to play a black role instead if just casting a black guy.
Fun fact: he does the entire actual DVD commentary in-character and doesn't drop it until the credits
I still love that Richard Pryor's biggest contribution to Blazing Saddles was Mongo.
