Why was this movie allowed to be made?

What if two white guys dressed up as black girls and called the movie Black Chicks? There would be millions of black people screaming at them and the movie industry.

F'k these two idiots for making this movie!!


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123437,00.html 

Wayans Transform for 'White Chicks'
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
By Russell Scott Smith

NEW YORK — Marlon Wayans (search) knows what hell is. "Hell is walking around for 60 days in a row with your thing taped back."

Marlon and his brother Shawn had to put up with the tuck-back - and more - when they dressed in drag for their new movie "White Chicks," (search) which opens Wednesday.

They're still unhappy about it.

"It was terrible," Shawn told The New York Post during a joint interview with his brother. "It's torture, man. That's what they should have done to those people in al Qaeda."

But all the pain will have been worthwhile if "White Chicks" does nearly as well as the Wayans brothers' last two movies.

Their raunchy and hilarious horror-film parody, 2000's "Scary Movie," (search) made a mint at the box office, grossing more than $300 million worldwide.

And while the sequel, 2001's "Scary Movie 2," was somewhat less successful, plenty of Wayans fans are eagerly awaiting "White Chicks," which reunites writer/stars Marlon and Shawn with their brother, "Scary Movie" director Keenan Ivory Wayans.

The reviews I have heard have been very poor.

Another movie that I will not bother to watch.

Have you ever seen the movie "Soul Man" starring C. Thomas Howell made back in 1986?

Double standart RDC. Gotta live with that. It'll be around for a long time.

I saw the trailer for the movie and never really gave the racial angle a second thought. I think the Wayan brothers are funny as heck, but I figured this movie I would have to miss.

I thought the same thing RDC. If a white guys does the "black face" routine tons of problems. A number of years ago a guy was on some talk show and did just that. Wore black paint on his face and did the "Mammy" routine. People called him a racist he said it was an art form.

I don't see any difference here.

Ted Danson wore black face when he was dating Whoopie at the Toastmasters Club. He got $#!t from everyone.

This double standard stuff is a load of BS

There was a movie a few decades ago called The Watermellon Man where a racist white man woke up one moring black, but that was done to show him how he was treating blacks.

While I agree the Wayons family are a funny bunch I dont agree with the movie.

If the ROW has to be PC then show should every ethnic group. If we did not live in an ever increasing PC world I would not have any issues with the movie.

I thought the same thing when I saw the trailer (I can't believe I actually saw a movie that had that trailer) that there is a double standard set forth. Perhaps in years to come it won't be there...I hope to live in a world that is truly color blind, or a least a little less PC. One or the other, either we can accept our respective races and have fun with them equally or choose to ignore them...

Interesting point Averagewhiteguy, I saw the movie when I was younger and don't remember how it ended, but the premise of a white guy donning black face in order to get into college is interesting. I think the movie was intended to be a comedy, but it concerns the same issues and is an example of the reverse....

There really IS a double standard at work ...

Can you imagine the hue and cry if there were a White Entertainment Channel ?? ... how 'bout if we had a Miss WhiteAmerica contest?

I've always been fine with the ideas of a color blind society and equal opportunity but those, it would seem, are not today's objectives ...

As OAG said,"Soul Man" has a white guy playing a black man. People seem to be avoiding this fact for some reason. X

I've never even heard of this movie? When did it come out?

soul man came out in the eighties....I wish I could remember the ending, I think he might have seen the error of his ways at the end...but don't quote me on that.

The only thing offensive about this movie is likely the movie itself.
Who cares about a B movie intended for teens and gen-X'ers?

What about the scene in that movie with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor? I think it was Silver Streak.
Wilder was trying to dodge the cops at a train station and used shoe polish on his face to make himself black. Then Pryor tried to teach him to have rhythm.
I'm laughing just thinking about it.
I must be racist...

That WAS Silver Streak ... I really liked that movie ...

Funny indeed, BUT it was in a pre-PC world. They wouldn't get away with that now.

I saw soul man. It came out in 86.

Mark doesn't expect any problems in going to college: he and his friend have reserved places in Harvard and his parents have the money to pay for his education there. But suddenly his father's neurotic psychiatrist advises him to go on vacation in Hawaii instead of spending more money on his son. Since Mark wants to keep his lifestyle, including a fancy car and a flat shared with his friend, he seeks financial support. The only foundation which still accepts applications is for blacks only -- no problem, with lots of bronzing pills and "soul in his voice" he sets out to Harvard. Soon he has to realize that being black will cause some people to handle him differently.

At the end the it was decided that he learned something that could not be taught - he learned what it was like to be black. And of course there is a chick involved.

Hey how about all the hooha that came about from, The Bodyguard, w/ the sex sceens cut out.

Watermelon Man...1970

Summary:
When a white racist (Godfrey Cambridge) wakes up black, he has a change of perspective.

Interesting movie but it bombed in the theaters.

JonR

Watermelon man??

That brings up yet another problem: Movie titles.

White Men Can't Jump.
ALthough I'm white, and I can't jump, so I guess there's some truth to that stereotype...

how about The Toy...rich white kid has everything he wants so he asks for a black guy for christmas to be his "toy" (some would say slave) extremely racially charged...but then again Richard Pryor was always one to use race for humor. More than anyone he turned the n-word into a term of empowerment for african americans.


on another note...I was working at the the grocery store and one of my coworkers made some remarks to an african american couple (in jest) as to why they didn't want watermelon since they were getting so much fried chicken.....maybe there should still be a double standard, or at the very least, cut people of other races some slack...after all, we don't know what its like to live as they do unless we too are of another race.