Re: Random movie talky stuff.
So, Copper's going on a movie rant again. I was scrolling down my FB page and saw notification for a "Stonewall" movie, which perked my interest. And then I happened to look at the splash pic.
And I thought "Are they making it a musical? Wtf?"
Turns out the "announcement" that I saw wasn't directly about the movie itself, but how it pretty much erases the entire history of the 1969 riots.
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The article sums it up well but it's pretty much how "the first stone" was cast by a (fictional) gay, white, cis male. The casting choice was apparently to help "appeal to Middle America" but...that's not who this movie is about. If you're going to create a movie about things that actually happened, especially when people who were there can be and are still alive (one of the patrons was celebrating their 18th birthday that night. That makes them 64...about my mother's age) don't freaking whitewash the damn thing (literally)l I'm just sitting here going "Guys, just...no. No." I actually just looked at the splash pic again, for preview purposes, and the timing is just perfect, considering the black members of the cast look the *least* enthused about being there.
My mother made an excellent analogy when trying to explain my ranting to her boyfriend. "It'd be like if they made the
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with a bunch of white pilots and one black general who's just there in the background.
Buzzfeed's also got a decent thing up on it, too. Though I still don't plan on seeing the movie.
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