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For a story I am writing, I needed a list of "racially charged" movies, to mention, and for reference.

 

The only ones I can think of are American History X, Higher Learning, and A Bronx Tale. What others (probably some really obvious ones) am I missing?

Guest Mindless_Aggression
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Just find Spike Lee's library and go to town.

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Romper Stomper. I live in Footscray where the movie takes place and when they beat up the two guys at the start at Footscray station I thought it was a bit weird considering there's no tunnel nor has ever been one at Footscray station.

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A Time To Kill, that's the one where the two KKK guys rape Samuel L. Jackson's daughter and then he kills them both and goes to trial for it...decent movie, nothing great though...good performance from Kevin Spacey in it...

 

Let's see, what else....Mississippi Burning with Willem DaFoe and Gene Hackman, though that's not necessarily focused on youth....Rosewood with Ving Rhames and Jon Voight, kind of a silly movie but racially charged nonetheless...

Guest TheZsaszHorsemen
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The Defiant Ones

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

The Adventures of Robin Hood ('40's)

 

The last one is built around the Norman/Saxon conflict.

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A Time To Kill, that's the one where the two KKK guys rape Samuel L. Jackson's daughter and then he kills them both and goes to trial for it...decent movie, nothing great though...good performance from Kevin Spacey in it...

It's worth it to see Sandra Bullock looking super hot, and for Matthew McConaughey's ridiculous overacting.

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Porky's 2: The Next Day

Good call on the Porky's 2 ... such a classic trilogy. Wicked underrated.

 

How about Birth of a Nation? It's only the most controversial movie about racism of all time.

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Sort of about race, and youth, but it was a TV movie, I'm talking about Crown Heights.

 

Howie Mandel = best rabbi ever. Because he raps.

 

Peace between the Jewish and black communities after the Crown Heights riots through that glorious thing known as hip-hop. I only saw part of it, though. But it had some rapping Hasidic Jewish kid, so, uh, yeah.

 

I'll leave this thread now...

Guest MikeSC
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You could do "White Man's Burden". Not a good movie, mind you, but it seems to fit into your criteria.

-=Mike

Guest Evolution
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You could do "White Man's Burden". Not a good movie, mind you, but it seems to fit into your criteria.

-=Mike

Interesting concept, bad execution.

 

I second Mississippi Burning and In The Heat of the Night as selections.

 

I'm still looking for the In The Heat of the Night movie soundtrack so I can hear "Foul Owl on the Prowl" again.

Guest Retro Rob
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I think Do the Right Thing is a great race-driven movie.

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Rob beat me to it. Do the Right Thing seems perfect for what you're after.

 

Look at West Side Story too. There certainly isn't anything as heavy as Spike Lee in there, but it'd be fruitful to look at the broad strokes used to contrast different races in something as popular and consumable as the musical.

Guest Crazy Dan
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To Kill a Mockingbird

In the Heat of the Night

Do the Right Thing

Cry Freedom (About So. Africa and Apartied, has Denzel Washington and William Hurt in it)

A Dry White Season

Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20
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Do The Right Thing is the definition of a "Racially charged" movie.

 

- American History X

- Higher Learning

- A Time To Kill

 

Sort of about race, and youth, but it was a TV movie, I'm talking about Crown Heights.

 

Howie Mandel = best rabbi ever. Because he raps.

 

Peace between the Jewish and black communities after the Crown Heights riots through that glorious thing known as hip-hop. I only saw part of it, though. But it had some rapping Hasidic Jewish kid, so, uh, yeah.

 

I'll leave this thread now...

 

Yeah, I saw that movie too. It actually wasn't that bad. :huh:

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You could do "White Man's Burden". Not a good movie, mind you, but it seems to fit into your criteria.

          -=Mike

Interesting concept, bad execution.

I didn't like the idea that it implies that every white person is rich and well off and every black person is dirt ass poor. Crackers are poor too.

Guest TheZsaszHorsemen
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Do The Right Thing is the obvious answer.

 

I guarantee no one else will be examining the complexities of the relationship between the Angelo-Saxons and their Norman lords.

Guest Evolution
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You could do "White Man's Burden". Not a good movie, mind you, but it seems to fit into your criteria.

          -=Mike

Interesting concept, bad execution.

I didn't like the idea that it implies that every white person is rich and well off and every black person is dirt ass poor. Crackers are poor too.

That would be the part that I would classify as the bad execution.

 

I know they were trying to establish the role reversal, but they should've kept it somewhat realistic and had some poor black people representing poor white people. Then again, they didn't set it in the South. *rimshot*

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