Birth of A Nation’s Box Office Flop and The Unrepentant Pettiness of Black Feminists. (good read)

[sahusahir]

blaming black feminist for the movies flop seems like a stretch to me.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

blaming black feminist for the movies flop seems like a stretch to me.

i blame nate parker.
he was hitting up the cac's tour circuit instead of hitting us up and making sure we'd go see it.
he ain't even really address us press wise until the 11th hour. fuck the toronto film festival
go to the detroit one.

 

[Better]

blaming black feminist for the movies flop seems like a stretch to me.

To be honest with you, I don't really feel like most people give a fuck about what black feminist are thinking. Black feminist care about what black feminist are thinking. It ain't enough of them to cause that movie to flop.

 

[mangobob79]

i blame nate parker.
he was hitting up the cac's tour circuit instead of hitting us up and making sure we'd go see it.
he ain't even really address us press wise until the 11th hour. fuck the toronto film festival
go to the detroit one.

i noticed this ....he seemed more concerned with white folx comin to the theatre ,

 

[mangobob79]

think about this bruhs, its an interesting time becos the orginal "BIRTH OF A NATION" is tied to what "THE 13TH " AVA DUVERNAY PIECE ON NETFLIX IS ABOUT..ITS A DIRECT PARALLEL
embed assist plz

 

[mk23666]

Luc Besson stay employed in Hollywood. He mostly writes and produces but he directs when he wants to. His last big budget movie was Lucy. He dated a girl when she was 15 (he was in his 30s) and she got pregnant the next year. He based Leon The Professional off of their relationship. Not to mention Bryan Singer always being accused of touching teenage boys.

In France that relationship wouldn't have batted an eye back then ... probably still doesn't now.

 

[Complex]

global sales will bump it

I hope you don't think this is true

 

[DaAssWatcher]

Nobody uses their powers for good.
They worked tirelessly to make sure this shit didn't make it big in the box office.
But aren't putting the same energy into things that might actually enact change.
Cause the white people they work for, won't even allow them to
and they don't even see it.

They do see it.They just want permanent jobs at these sites they write for free at (HuffPost,Complex,Ebony,Essence,Etc) so they go extra hard to prove they can be trusted.Notice Oprah ain't utter one word about this flick....

 

[TFN Crew]

They do see it.They just want permanent jobs at these sites they write for free at (HuffPost,Complex,Ebony,Essence,Etc) so they go extra hard to prove they can be trusted.Notice Oprah ain't utter one word about this flick....

Exactly - negro bed wenches know they are being used to sell out their own people, esp. Black men, but they don't care. NBW's know they are expendable on massas plantation so they have to go extra hard to show massa they r on board 100%.

 

[rNubb]

Perspective.

Too many of us, black people, are too quick cast blame. Ain't no angry black women sniping brothers stepping up to the box office.

Look at this black movie starring these beautiful black people in a sex triangle. Black women love Morris Chestnut. He has a black wife, black children and he ain't no rapist.

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $29,441,000 98.2%
+ Foreign: $538,919 1.8%
Worldwide: $29,979,919
Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend: $14,202,323

Why did anyone believe that Birth of a Nation was going to do better numbers than a Morris Chestnut/Regina Hall movie?

Brothers and sisters. Calm all these self defeating emotional attacks.

A black man made a movie about a historic black man and that black man's movement. If Nat Turner is important to you then you are going to be happy with seeing his story on the silver screen. You don't give 2 shits about the director and his past now that you have the finished product.

Anybody that seeks to see this movie can go to the theater or wait for it to become available on dvd, blu ray and digital download.

Nate Parker sold his movie for a profit. He has demonstrated that he can complete a movie project from start to finish.

Why are so many people so concerned with how much money the studio makes? Nate is good.

He got this movie made as a virtual nobody now he is an established film maker.

Those so-called evil, trifling, bitter, bedwenching, angry feminist black women didn't stop this black man on his mission.

Status: Mission accomplished.

This movies has done more to expose the deep rooted distrust and animosity between some brothers and sisters.

 

[WhenTheGoingGetsTtuff]

Perspective.

Too many of us, black people, are too quick cast blame. Ain't no angry black women sniping brothers stepping up to the box office.

Look at this black movie starring these beautiful black people in a sex triangle. Black women love Morris Chestnut. He has a black wife, black children and he ain't no rapist.

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $29,441,000 98.2%
+ Foreign: $538,919 1.8%
Worldwide: $29,979,919
Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend: $14,202,323

Why did anyone believe that Birth of a Nation was going to do better numbers than a Morris Chestnut/Regina Hall movie?

Brothers and sisters. Calm all these self defeating emotional attacks.

A black man made a movie about a historic black man and that black man's movement. If Nat Turner is important to you then you are going to be happy with seeing his story on the silver screen. You don't give 2 shits about the director and his past now that you have the finished product.

Anybody that seeks to see this movie can go to the theater or wait for it to become available on dvd, blu ray and digital download.

Nate Parker sold his movie for a profit. He has demonstrated that he can complete a movie project from start to finish.

Why are so many people so concerned with how much money the studio makes? Nate is good.

He got this movie made as a virtual nobody now he is an established film maker.

Those so-called evil, trifling, bitter, bedwenching, angry feminist black women didn't stop this black man on his mission.

Status: Mission accomplished.

This movies has done more to expose the deep rooted distrust and animosity between some brothers and sisters.

You amazin. lol

 

[ClevelandDawg216]

Here we have a so-called 'woke' black woman, who knows about the history of false accusations of white women against black men, and this countries propensity to demonize said black men purely on the accusations of white women alone. This 'woke' black woman ALSO knows that a black man was found acquitted of raping a white woman by a white jury, and yet ...

...somehow, someway, with no more information to base her opinion on than what has been made public, she has dug her heels in w/ her belief that he is a rapist.

This 'woke' black woman has put her womanhood over her blackness in defense of a woman who probably would not put her womanhood over her whiteness for her if a white man had raped her.

yup. it's pathetic and transparent.

 

[playahaitian]

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[big pimp]

Black feminists are white supremacy foot soldiers. They have a common enemy, black men.

^^^
But these same women will line up to see Tyler perry coonin.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

All the "cool" white people ppl claim they know didn't go see the shit either.
All those white people Parker was pandering to before it dropped, did not go see it.
Should have never even pandered to them once Fox bought it. Just walk in and say if you want this to be a hit we need to target black people.
Just target them. Get on every circuit every show. We doing podcasts, we doing steve harvey show, we doing it all. We doing wendy williams. We going on judge mabeline. we hitting every spot up. Every one.

We starting with an apology for even being caught up in the bullshit.

"I was young, I was fortunate that justice was served as I was found not guilty and i vowed to never put myself in a sketchy position like that ever again. Thanks to God's grace I have put that chapter of my life behind me. I feel for the emotions she might have been going through but I thought it would be better for both of us if we parted ways and picked up the pieces of our lives so no i have no had contact with her nor have i kept up with her life because I thought it was best for both of us. I am saddened to learn that she took her life. I wish her and her family well, I also learned after the fact that she had in fact been battling depression since she was a child. Mental health is a serious issue I will not make light of and so I will leave it at that"

NOW

This movie is made by us and for us. We always say we want to see us strong and represented on the screen well this is it.
Any questions about the movie or who nat turner was just ask me..
he takes questions from host and people in the audience. If they ask about the rape just say it was in the past, i have worked in numerous films since then it is a problem now because they don't want you to see a black man fighting against oppression, especially now. That is a message that needs to be stopped. Don't go see the movie for me, go see it for yourself.
MOVE ON

Stay on the talking points don't get frustrated. Stay on them. Take the beating. Next go to college's "Yall think yall woke?" SCREEN IT AT HBCU'S all of them. Screen it and do a q&a with them after.

Roll out a national campaign. Ask a question. Fuck that hanging symbolism with the American flag, that's fake.
Roll out "Who is Nat Turner?"
Put that everywhere. BOLD LETTERING. Guerilla marketing style. Put it in the black hubs. Oakland, LA Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Atlanta, NYC etc etc. Put it everywhere. Who is Nat Turner?
Viral videos of a fight scene.
Don't roll out a full length trailer. Just 30 second cuts.
o to 100.
He's standing there preaching with a overseer standing by him with a gun.. he says a few words, there is no music. He pauses and then he closes his eyes.
This comes on.

It's black.
Then we're doing the flash scenes of fighting, anger, aggression. Rain, Sorrow, Pain, gritting of the teeth. People dying. Him leading the revolt. People being too scared to fight. That same overseer now at his mercy. It goes faster and faster until its all a big fast blur. Then when the music stops in this video he opens his eyes again we're back at him standing there preaching.
Cuts to black
"Who is Nat Turner?"

Have a website. whoisnaturner.com
NOTHING BUT INFORMATION ON IT.
Retweet like share a nat turner fact on the day the movie drops to win a personalized copy of the movie signed by the entire cast.
Get Nat Turner trending world wide then we will make sure the behind the scenes is available for free.
Get #1 opening weekend and Nate Parker will come to your city and have a discussion with an elementary school in an impoverished neighborhood to discuss the importance of Nat Turner.


Something like this might have worked.

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they basically did every fucking thing I said to do.

https://blackpantherchallenge.org/

 

[trstar]

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they basically did every fucking thing I said to do.

https://blackpantherchallenge.org/

regarding Birth of a Nation, your roll out plan is 100%. I think once you get caught in the "hollywood" bubble, its hard to get a true pulse on people respond to.