The Brilliance and Racism of Soul Man

[slam]

Can we start a serious discussion on how inadvertently brilliant and terribly racist this film was?...

bout to put a download in H-wood section if ur interested....


dinner scene was classic....






3:50 mark.....





" go get my heroine and my hypodermic needle bitch....


gimme some mo water-melon while u at it....


white fat ass slut...what you lookin at .....( takes a bite )"

 

[BLACKLOOP]

Wow

 

[slam]

Wow

it gets deeper but some funny moments...

like right before the pimp scene....






"all my life i`ve only been able to think about one thing...

WHITE WOMEN !!!! "








i wonder how that would play today.....



( old white omen fantasizing about fucking their daughters black boy friends when they come over for dinner....)

 

[RepostKing]

closet rae dawn came to a love interest with a black man in a movie

But really, how times haven't changed...

 

[Man_Of_STeeL]

white people love blackface ...

it's been a while since i saw it...

 

[HeathCliff]

This was one of my favorite movies growing up (I'm talking like 1st grade). In my teen years, I used to wonder why I could never find this movie on TV, for years. Ten when I finally saw it again in college, I realized why it never re-aired

 

[sirwoodz]

man i rewatched that trailer last year and was BLOWN AWAY!!!

that shit was racist as FUCK! but i loved that shit growing up....and james earl jones agreed to play in that movie!? wow.

 

[World B Free]

....I can't believe I liked this movie as a kid

 

[Southpaw]

closet rae dawn came to a love interest with a black man in a movie

But really, how times haven't changed...

They were married in real life.

 

[Naha-Nago]

Didn't this movie kill that dudes career?

*two cents*

 

[HeathCliff]

Didn't this movie kill that dudes career?

*two cents*

nope

 

[casmaksen]

Taglines for Soul Man



A comedy with heart and soul.

He Didn't Give Up,
He Got Down

Mark needs a scholarship to get into Harvard. There's one more available for a black student. The problem is Mark's not black... Yet.

Sure don't make em like they used too

On a side note I loved this film when i was a kid too it all flew right over my head as did that indian guy from Short Circuit.

 

[Damn Right]

the butler at the 2:26 mark........the look he gives dude like 'u playin yaself mutha fuka'

like he just has NO respect for dude. but yeah, that movie was stereotypical as fuk. but 20 years from now a white dude gonna make a thread on wgol about how racist the wayans bros 'white girls' was

 

[Amajorfucup]

I havent watched this movie as an adult so my memories are from the perspective of a kid. But you guys do know that the movie was more about the stereotypes and prejudices held by whites as opposed to reenforcing and validating negative stereotypes against blacks right?

Maybe thats what slam means by his title but it seems like some consider the flick to be a racists interpretation and presentation of black life.

 

[Rick Spanish]

Never saw or even heard of this flick.. A movie that I used loved that was about in the same vein tho..

 

[Kwame Coltrane]

Sure don't make em like they used too

On a side note I loved this film when i was a kid too it all flew right over my head as did that indian guy from Short Circuit.

I tripped out when i found out the dude playing the Indian was a Jew.

 

[slam]

I tripped out when i found out the dude playing the Indian was a Jew.

happens all the time...

especially with indian roles in westerns...

i bet 90% are played by white folks...

 

[SNYC]

damn, havent seen this shit in years. i still remember the basketball scene. the 2 coaches were fighting to have dude on their team

 

[slam]

I havent watched this movie as an adult so my memories are from the perspective of a kid. But you guys do know that the movie was more about the stereotypes and prejudices held by whites as opposed to reenforcing and validating negative stereotypes against blacks right?

Maybe thats what slam means by his title but it seems like some consider the flick to be a racists interpretation and presentation of black life.

this

 

[BDR]

Can we start a serious discussion on how inadvertently brilliant and terribly racist this film was?...

bout to put a download in H-wood section if ur interested....


dinner scene was classic....






3:50 mark.....





" go get my heroine and my hypodermic needle bitch....


gimme some mo water-melon while u at it....


white fat ass slut...what you lookin at .....( takes a bite )"

 

[slam]

 

[HeathCliff]

I havent watched this movie as an adult so my memories are from the perspective of a kid. But you guys do know that the movie was more about the stereotypes and prejudices held by whites as opposed to reenforcing and validating negative stereotypes against blacks right?

Maybe thats what slam means by his title but it seems like some consider the flick to be a racists interpretation and presentation of black life.

You're right. You're absolutely right. As an adult watching this I saw that too.

 

[slam]

they should remake it....

 

[moblack]

I liked it as a kid and I saw what the movie point was.