Deep South Star Wars
Filed under: Comedy, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Shorts, Cinematical Indie
Yahoo is running an AP story by Kathy Hanrahan, entitled Mississippi Filmmakers Parody 'Star Wars', about Star Wars Episode III: A Lost Hope, a parody of the new Star Wars movie made by a group of filmmakers from McComb, Mississippi. The film is a six-minute short written and directed by Todd Bullock. The trailer is being hosted at iFilm.com for anyone interested in checking it out. As with most things coming out of the Deep South, the short film for all its silliness (and the AP article about it) still manages to comment on racial issues that I think are sometimes oversimplified or just plain lost in Hollywood and on the never-desegregated regions of the States.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:18PM
Man said...
Saw it and instead of comment on racial issues they just made the 2 typical angry black guy jokes. It was silly but not so funny, matbe there other stuff is better.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:18PM
C.K. Sample, III said...
Yes, they are just "angry black man jokes," however, does that make the comment any less true. I think the "angry black man" stereotype is often ignored today, b/c everyone wants to pretend that everybody suddenly magically gets along and that there isn't any racism anymore. And, unfortunately, that is simply not true. Not safe either, imho. So as overused as the jokes may have been in the past, I think it is good to see them emerging again. For more on this see Harold and Kumar in that White Castle movie. Silly comedy, but saying some powerful things about minority issues in the U.S.
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