My black co-worker asked me today to reccomend him a white people movie, and he’d give me a black people movie.
At first I reccomended Live Die Repeat (also known as Edge of Tomorrow) then remembered Wes Anderson exists and said anything by him maybe.
He reccomended Salt and The Tourist. I intend to watch them on the weekend.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Oh that’s pretty damn white.
So white it’s British
Only my whitest friends emphatically recommend this movie and make any references to it. I don’t think I’ve ever met a non-white person who’s watched it. If they have, they never bring it up!
I will watch anything made by Monty Python.
For a white movie, I’d recommend Office Space from 1999. It’s one of my all time favorites
White Chicks. Then you’ve got both bases covered.
White Men Can’t Jump may cover both bases as well. :)
I’ve gotten that answer a lot in person too. I totally agree. 😂
Sorry To Bother You is an amazing movie with a scene that will make any white person uncomfortable (in a good way). Bonkers cast too.
Somehow that movie was aytoplaying while I was asleep. I woke up at the very end when the symptoms show. I was thoroughly confused but intrigued.
Even with the context of the rest of the movie, that ending was completely out of left field.
I didn’t even realize i was watching the same movie until I watched almost the whole thing. Amazon would do that though.
I love that movie so fucking much. It saddens me that I will never again experience the thrill of watching it with a white person (many white people in fact) in a movie theatre. I’m not sure I’d want to because it made me feel physically ill but what a thrill.
Uh oh. I’m starting to notice that they’re ALL white movies. It’s almost as if the entire industry has been dominated by a single voice since it’s inception. 🤔
Yeah. I thought it was bizarre when some people complained about a black actor playing the little mermaid. We could list Americans of northern European ancestry playing almost every other race, ethnicity and nationality without anyone blinking an eye and we could do it for days without being close to a complete list.
Inception, that’s a good white people movie
The whitest film I’ve ever seen is Christopher Guest’s Best in Show (2000).
I don’t think you can outdo John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood (1991), but I think the most universally agreed upon movie that black people enjoy is actually Love and Basketball (2000).
I’d argue that A Mighty Wind is even whiter.
I would argue the yuppie couple alone puts Best in Show as the whiter movie
The folk music in A Mighty Wind may be greater than the Swans’ screen time. And that music is extremely white.
But the meltdown over Busy Bee can definitely count for double.
To me, the most white people movie ever is Marley and Me…As for adult movies, maybe Eyes Wide Shut?
Salt and tourists are excellent movies not sure how those fall under black peoples movies though
White: Harold and Maude.
Black: I Love Boosters.I am not really sure what is “white” and “black” movies, but I was born in Vilnius, Lithuania myself, with “white” skin color if that makes sense.
In this case, I had around 30 titles in the mind for the “white”, but for some reason, the first 5 that I recalled and imagined was:
- Run Lola Run (1998);
- Suicide Room (2011);
- The Place Beyond the Pines (2012);
- The Book Thief (2013);
- Head Full of Honey" (2018);White people movie: Death at a Funeral (2007)
Black people movie: Death at a Funeral (2010)
Bonus fun: Peter Dinklage plays the same character in both.
I’m pretty sure Fight Club is a white movie, and it’s actually good, or I’ maybe m just that white.
It’s very white technically (cast), but its various messages speak more to class struggle and patriarchy which affect all the races, so I personally wouldn’t consider it a “white movie” in the same sense as some others in this thread.
I think I’d still say it’s a white movie. It’s about masculinity, consumerism, and class which are universal challenges, but it looks at them through the lens of how they impact white men.
I never got any “antipatriarchal” vibes from Fight Club, maybe I should watch it again, lol. It did feel very “nihilistic anger and sadness that turns into violence”, it made me feel like I was listening to Papa Roach or Evanescence (which are as white as art can get, and I enjoy both just for the record, I had the CDs and everything!).
Fight Club at its core is about how society fails to provide men a safety net for their emotions / personal development and instead pushes them to things like consumerism and unrealistic expectations of masculinity. This is what triggers the narrator to become nihilistic, angry, and eventually violent. The reason society is the way it is towards men is because it was set up that way by the patriarchy to keep them in their societal place and so that capitalism can keep capitalizing.
There’s lots of articles about it (and how its so often misunderstood). I’d also recommend the book, as the different ending drives the point home in a different way imo.
Interesting point about evanecessence (JFC what a word to spell). I get more depression rather than anger from them lol
I agree with everything in your first paragraph up until the last sentence! But I don’t wanna start a long argument (which happens to me often… I’m starting to think I’m the reason 🙃) and hijack the thread, if that’s okay. I’ll definitely read the lit hub article though, and thanks for the comprehensive reply. 👍
white men can’t jump
vampire in brooklin
friday
diverance
a time to kill
pootie tang
Good call on Friday!
How about Casablanca? It’s black and white.
Hackers, The Matrix, Ferris Bueller, Risky Business
Bonus: Abre los Ojos is the Spanish precursor of Vanilla Sky
