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Knife2MeetYouToo t1_j6o9zai wrote

Reply to comment by Foxhound97_ in Why Film Festivals Are Steering Clear of Controversial Movies by BobRobot77

> Despite all the complaining about the "Woke era" you until relatively recent most minorities creatives are the ones who had walk on eggshells to not offended the studio.

This is the part that makes no sense and wasn't brought up, it is mindbogglingly wrong.

That is where your bias is hurting you, because this just isn't a real thing in the film industry.

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Foxhound97_ t1_j6oab5w wrote

I've enjoy listening to interviews with creatives behind the scenes who talked about compromises they had to make on certain subjects that are much more widespread now my point is he didn't have an opinion on it ten years ago.

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Knife2MeetYouToo t1_j6oajvu wrote

Do you have any examples to share?

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Foxhound97_ t1_j6ocr19 wrote

Spike Lee talked about it,David Simon (who is white but usually forces on race) who wrote the wire talked about how he only allowed to go to far with some of the race so not offend the white audaince members and I believe issa rea had similar issues getting her show made until it was on HBO because most studios were willing to make unless changes were made.

If I'm including ones that started production but were never made the Danny glover haitian revolution movie is a really interesting thing to read about.

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Knife2MeetYouToo t1_j6oegy5 wrote

You kind of proved my point here, minorities have not had any issue in the last 20-30 years telling their stories. There has been almost no pushback to that from studios, in fact minorities are far, far over-represented in film and TV compared to the national demographics.

Some white people have gotten pushback for trying to tell black stories, but does that really surprise you?

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Foxhound97_ t1_j6ogin7 wrote

I gave you an example from each decade and one of them is a white guy who had almost no black people critique his work negatively (although that's mostly because he's from a journalism background so he actually knows how to research properly).

I also don't think you understand what we're talking about I'm talking about writers and directors not actors.

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