its more like what "others" (translation: black filmmakers) don't have the opportunity to do..
here's a question...Reggie Hudlin and QT were both talking about slave movies and how weak they were especially in how the slaves were viewed as always taking the high road when it came time to get some payback. From that conversation Tarantino wrote Django so in a sense Hudlin is one of the creating factors in the movie.
So here's the question: WHY DIDN'T REGGIE DO IT HIMSELF?
He's a filmmaker in his own right. Why DIDN'T ANY black filmmaker out there in the last 20 years make a film like this?
Hint: it AINT because black people wouldn't support it so don't bother to respond with that.
If we lined up around the corner to see THIS movie don't even waste the time typing how we don't or wouldn't support a film just like it by a black director.
So why would black filmmakers even feel like this story COULDN'T be told by them...why would it take a WHITE MAN some 10-12 years into the 21st CENTURY to tell this story?
I started a thread that said:
Perception is everything: Django Unchained could only be done by a nonblack filmmaker
and it barely got any response becuz I suspect that most people who defend the movie and call out black filmmakers on it know the REAL reason why and how Django got made..
As far as Dick Gregory is concerned..sure heads shouldn't have tried to discredit him. But there are some fair game observations and questionable issues about the movie for example:
* The fact that a white guy made it period and that doesn't change the paradigm of race relations we've had in america much less hollywood. Thats too strong a wording and I don't mean that this film should change society but the story of a strong black man coming from a white man just doesn't change anything at all in the issue of US controlling OUR image.
* That any good thing that happens to Django ONLY happens because of the auspices of a well meaning white man. And the subtle implications of that.
* That if the story is about a love between two people it has more to do with Django and Dr. King Schultz as more time is devoted to their relationship than Django and Broomhilda. And the subtle implications of that.
Those observations are completely missed by both Farrakhan and Gregory in their near glowing reviews of a film thats promoted as something of a Black People Doing It For Themselves type of story. And I'm kinda shocked they didn't see that.
I said before I was as offended by Django Unchained in the same way I was offended by the movie Hancock another movie where a black "hero" can't get his shit together until a good white man comes along to help him.