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The Black Culture Community [OT 4] - Melanin and Estrogen - The new Kryptonite
- Thread starter D i Z
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And the problem with hood movies is the families are dealing with hood shit. Someone gets shot, drugs, police, a funeral etc... With Us, even though it's a horror film, the family is doing normal family shit. Going on vacation, putting kids to bed, brother and sister arguing, dad making dad jokes. A normal Black family portrayal. Even with shows like Black-ish, the show is a comedy with a message, so the family can't be "normal" and is exaggerated in order to get messages/topics across. This isn't a complaint about Black-ish/I watch the show regularly along with Grown-ish, but Us stands out from everything else because of how normal/real the Black family portrayal is and, like you said, it is damn near impossible to think of anything else like that. Like if anyone else but Jordan Peele had done this film, you know the father would have been cheating/abusive or the son would have been skipping school...some silly ass subplot to get in the way of the genuine family moments.
Craig does have some genuine moments with his family that I appreciate when he's not a the Creek (Craig and his dad playing video games, Craig and his sister going with their mom to the salon).
Craig does have some genuine moments with his family that I appreciate when he's not a the Creek (Craig and his dad playing video games, Craig and his sister going with their mom to the salon).
Guava Island was just okay IMO, but just seeing all those melanated faces just made me enjoy watching it. It seems we're getting a more mainstream popularity for black led media and I'm wondering what's changed that has led to this. Jordan Peele's movies have been doing EXTREMELY well and since Atlanta everything Donald Glover has touched has been too, but we've had directors creating black led media before. On the film side we've had Spike Lee and Jon Singleton and...*sigh* Tyler Perry. In television we had the Cosby Show way back and Fresh Prince in the 90s, but I still feel like (and maybe I'm wrong) those weren't quite as big as the current crop.
