1.) The lead white male is a complete doofus in the movie. He is weak, idiotic, socialistic, idealistic, and manages images for a living.
2.) Businessmen are seen as greedy corporate captains of industry selfishly refusing to share their gains with the people.
3.) The white female lead is a blond Aryan type goddess who hides her immortal super-human ability from her husband while treating him the way that a owner would treat a prized pet.
4.) The black male lead is a god who is a derelict who learns from the white man how to function in civilized society. Come to find out the white Aryan female goddess and the black god are husband and wife who were created from time immemorial to be a matched pair. They belong together (as seen in a near kissing scene) and yet when together they destroy each other as well as the white man’s world.
5.) The black male god and the white female goddess eventually work together to save the day, though this results in them realizing that they have to go their separate ways in order for each of them to survive individually.
6.) The white doofus takes his white female goddess back as a wife even after he realizes that she had an intimate past with the black god.
7.) The Black god is the hero of the movie and rescues the male lead from his disastrous publicity career by emblazoning his add logo, intended to bring the world together, on the moon.
8.)A Black guy is the central cop and a white guy is the central criminal in the bank heist in the movie.
9.) The Black God, the White Goddess and the doofus white guy all work together to make sure the White criminal can’t “get his power back.” They end up making a double amputee of him.
10.) The white Goddess tells the white doofus husband that there is no such thing as fate and people have choices.
Please don’t think that any of these observations are me reading to much into the film. There is definitely a racial / gender agenda in this movie and it isn’t favorable to white males who aren’t weak doofuses.
You are reading way too much in that stupid movie. It was bad for several reasons, most importantly, because the storyline was one long run-on sentence.
I don’t think I’m reading to much into it. Hollywood has a habit of doing these kinds of things.
I will agree with you though that it was a stupid movie and the storyline was on long run-on sentence.
However IMO it had one redeeming moment and that was in the prison scene when the lead character is first put in the prison population and he fulfills a promise to achieve a unique anatomical placement of one man’s head.
That was funny … I’m still laughing about that scene.
yeah, it was funny indeed… I also loved the soundtrack to Sanford and Son in the background… a truly artistic moment! Once more, it “offended” all of the ladies in the room… truly priceless.
Hey that was a good catch … I missed the Sanford and Son music.
Isn’t Sanford and Son a old persons joke? How is it that you caught that?
Are you in reality an old person?
Women … what do they know about good physical humor?
LOL
I’m a bit of a connoisseur of 70’s Black television, and Sanford and Son is near the top!
I don’t think you are reading too much into it. All of this stuff is thought about by executives, etc. They have to think about what audiences will accept. They surely tested the final cut in front of test audiences to determine whether certain demographics would even be interested in it.
So Dave, do you have an “Aunt Esther” in your life?
And I’m trying to think of other 70’s black television shows
1.) Sanford & Son
2.) Good Times
3.) The Flip Wilson Variety Hour
4.) The Jackson 5 Show
5.) Chico & the Man (A Hispanic version of Sanford & Son)
6.) There was the black kid on all in the family occasionally
Am I missing any?
Joshua,
The thing is that White people have been so mind washed into this stuff that they seldom see it anymore.
Another example was another Will Smith movie (I Robot). In that movie they have a white kid playing the part of a typical inner city black kid with all the vulgarity in language and hip hop dress. While Smith is the well adjusted local cop who is lecturing the white kid on responsible living.
Also, we have to ask ourselves who are making the movies and what agenda might those who are making the movies pursuing?