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
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. 😂
I think Titanic is probably the whitest movie ever made. couldn’t tell you what a black movie would be.
Any Medea movie?
Dolemite or probably anything Tyler Perry
Malcom X?
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.
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.
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.
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White: The LOTR original trilogy
Black: Coming to America, They Cloned Tyrone, Get Out (gave 3 movies since the trilogy is technically 3 movies)
Bonus
Asian: Kung Fu Hustle, Old Boy (very dark thriller warning), Spirited Away
Hispanic: Instructions Not Included, Coco, Pan’s Labyrinth
I’d be quite irritated if I offered to “trade” movies with someone and I gave them an 80 minute comedy and was told to watch a 12+ hour trilogy, lol. They are indeed white movies though.
Source: half-white LotR nerd
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.
White people movie: Cruel Intentions (incredibly privileged and wealthy people being horrible to each other for no reason other than they can)
Black people movie: His House (South Sudanese refugees adapting to their new lives in England experiencing racism and hostility, oh and their house is haunted)
The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whitest feeling movie I’ve seen.
Well, it depends.
Steel Magnolias is the whittest movie ever made.
Maybe some white apologist shit like El Torino for a guy. That’s a pretty good one.
Watched both with my Asian wife.
“Really! That’s exactly how women in Mississippi are!”
She loved Grand Torino as well. (That’s what you meant, right?)
Grand Torino! That’s the one!
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
White movie: The Princess Bride
Black movie: Poetic Justice. Also, since the holidays are coming up, The Holiday and The Best Man.
Also, your coworker likes Angelina Jolie and that’s all their picks mean. It’s like they didn’t even understand the question
Oh god this coworker is a lot of fun but he kinda way off in right-field most of the time mentally.
The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz.
Braveheart is about as white as it gets.
You call the scottish rednecks “white”??
/s
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 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. 👍
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.
GATTACA is about class struggle while being exceptionally white about it
