12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen says Hollywood has ignored slavery

[Zeuce]

hollywood is about making money and entertaining people...who the fuk wants to constantly see movies about slavery, thats not entertaining unless you go to the movies hating the oppressed race.

In some areas, I'm sure there's an element of this...

[SwagMorris]

O really, why don't u ask Mexicans in the states and how may are affected in present day.

What the fuk are you talking about, *******? Your post makes no fuking sense.

[Vexidi]

O really, why don't u ask Mexicans in the states and how may are affected in present day.

Wait...are you comparing Mexicans who voluntarily sneak into the US to Africans who were brought over chained up on ships?

[colgatesmil3]

Lol at people trying to hide the fact that slave movies make them uncomfortable (and for some of goes against your white is right agendas) by saying the concept is boring, yeah Django and 12 years were huge flops weren't they misc directors

lol wut? it feels like there is a new slavery movie every 3 months these past few years. also why do we need more? everybody knows it happened and that it was wrong, let's move on

name 8 slave big screen movies

from what I know there's only been a handful made in the last twenty or so years. Meanwhile war movies are made every year and nobody says "it happened get over it"

[Zerafian]

Lol at people trying to hide the fact that slave movies make them uncomfortable"

it makes suburban house wifes and white collar middle aged husbands uncomfortable...the fact is straight up movies focusing on slavery are fuking boring. Django was a good movie because they threw it dramatized events and fictional action.

As long as the production company believes they can get the money back that they spent and make 150% back they will make the movie...slavery BS doesn sell especially if movies are constantly made about them. Use your head man.

Besides, the educational system for grade school is packed full of history so slavery is brought up quite a lot in a childs development stages of life, which is more important then hollywood trying to further aware adults on it when we already know about it.

[colgatesmil3]

Slavery didn't affect nearly as many people and all of those people are dead. He's a fuking hypocrite, ignoring all of the other slavery in the world that goes on right now including in the US. Fuk that nikka.

Slavery affected many who were descended from slaves or related to the slave trade, this is widely accepted by people who study society that the legacy of slavery didn't just end when it was abolished. To say slavery only affected the people who were enslaved and not their offspring is ignorant.

Misc is very ignorant towards race relations in America, most don't even know blacks were still heavily oppressed for another hundred years post slavery, if these movies are educating people then they're doing something right. Miscers who don't want to accept that whites ever did anything wrong to blacks ever can just not watch.

[colgatesmil3]

it makes suburban house wifes and white collar middle aged husbands uncomfortable...the fact is straight up movies focusing on slavery are fuking boring. Django was a good movie because they threw it dramatized events and fictional action.

As long as the production company believes they can get the money money they spent and make 150% back they will make the movie...slavery BS doesn sell especially if movies are constantly made about them. Use your head man

boring to you, be objective

and again, name 8, just 8 slave big screen movies or don't say they're constantly being made.

[RocknRollMuscle]

is this a competition?

how many hollywood films about the native american holoaust? How many about japanese internments? How many about mass registration and deportation of muslim males after 9/11? How many about current day slavery in Kuwait?

Typical white guilt philosophy. Look around us demographics. Millions of people live now whose ancestors have nothing to do with slavery. It's basic math. Slavery movies are horrible at the box office and even worse overseas.

Why would a mexican or asian care about about black slavery. Where's the movies on his ancestors being used as slaves?

The reparations of slavery were found in the blood of the union soldiers.

[EoR]

lol there's still slavery all over the world, but Jimmy and Jane only know about one type of slavery and associate "slave" with one race because that's all their media has told them. While people bring up atrocities that happened centuries ago and are still trying to lay a guilt trip on a society that had nothing to do with it, there's millions of people all over Europe and Asia living in current slavery, not just from other races, but their own. I can picture it now, 90% all dumbfu*ck bitches and FAs on ******** just think slavery means "What whites did to blacks". Every year I swear teens and the young adult bracket just get dumber and dumber with little or no general knowledge about politics and history. Western media bubble.

Slavery isn't "forgotten", it never went away.

[mr.perffect]

is this a competition?

how many hollywood films about the native american holoaust? How many about japanese internments? How many about mass registration and deportation of muslim males after 9/11? How many about current day slavery in Kuwait?

Typical white guilt philosophy. Look around us demographics. Millions of people live now whose ancestors have nothing to do with slavery. It's basic math. Slavery movies are horrible at the box office and even worse overseas.

Why would a mexican or asian care about about black slavery. Where's the movies on his ancestors being used as slaves?

The reparations of slavery were found in the blood of the union soldiers.

Want more movies about slavery? Write some then. What do I look like Steven Spielberg?

[Zeuce]

is this a competition?

how many hollywood films about the native american holoaust? How many about japanese internments? How many about mass registration and deportation of muslim males after 9/11? How many about current day slavery in Kuwait?

Typical white guilt philosophy. Look around us demographics. Millions of people live now whose ancestors have nothing to do with slavery. It's basic math. Slavery movies are horrible at the box office and even worse overseas.

Why would a mexican or asian care about about black slavery. Where's the movies on his ancestors being used as slaves?

The reparations of slavery were found in the blood of the union soldiers.

But white guilt-ridden critics love the chit outta the subject matter and one will win the Oscar, book it

[Spill512]

Him and fassbender make quality stuff together. 12 years was a great movie.

[RockyIV]

Glory
Django Unchained

[RockyIV]

But white guilt-ridden critics love the chit outta the subject matter and one will win the Oscar, book it

It's all about money and the Asian market brings a ton of money to movie sales so you have to give your customer what they want. It's a business it ain't Unicef

[giuppe]

http://www.flicksandbits.com/2014/01...locaust/62976/

In a recent chat with Sky News for ’12 Years a Slave,’ Steve McQueen criticized Hollywood for avoiding slavery as a subject matter for movies. The acclaimed filmmaker/artist said that he hopes his drama will “redress that balance”. McQueen said, “The Second World War lasted five years and there are hundreds and hundreds of films about the Second World War and the Holocaust. Slavery lasted 400 years and there are less than 20 [films]. We have to redress that balance and look at that time in history.” The Turner Prize-winning artist, who previously directed ‘Hunger’ and ‘Shame,’ said: “People somehow do not want to look at this particular time in history.”

20 movies seems to be a bit of a low estimate. Regardless I don't feel slavery should be heightened up to the 200 mark(like WWII), well at least for American slavery. While I share sympathy for those enslaved during America's beginning, if you're going to make a slave film try to look at slavery in other time periods/countries...much more ideas and material than rewriting the same beat up and used up Hollywood idea of the civil war/slavery era.

[WnaLearnScience]

will read once i've watched the film

[Soonerjohn]

That is the great thing about America! He saw a need for more slavery films to be made and went and did it! Good for him.

[PSVita]

Hollywood is mostly controlled by Jews so there's like 30 Holocaust movies a year.

[Cig Diesel]

We need more movies about rape, abortion and diabetes

[k20z3]

It was a great movie, on a touchy subject, personally I think this movie took a dump on django, it was way more realistic, plus Jamie Foxx is the worst I cant stand looking at his painted on hariline.

[ElbosTupointee]

It was a great movie, on a touchy subject, personally I think this movie took a dump on django, it was way more realistic, plus Jamie Foxx is the worst I cant stand looking at his painted on hariline.

That's because this movie was based on real story.

[PSVita]

It was a great movie, on a touchy subject, personally I think this movie took a dump on django, it was way more realistic, plus Jamie Foxx is the worst I cant stand looking at his painted on hariline.

Django wasn't meant to be realistic m8. It's a Tarantino film, it's meant to be violence with a touch of violence.

[BetaGazelle]

Somewhat unrelated, but I highly recommend his previous movie 'Shame'. Very entertaining.

[shanks1992]

What I always find irritating as fuk is slaves are usually portrayed has happy looking kunts in white cotton clothes, a straw hat and working fields.

The Patriot is a prime example. As if they got it that good lol

[JihadMeAtHello]

All of mankind was effected by the industrial revolution. Im so pissed they haven't made even 1 critically acclaimed movie about this. Its honestly disgusting how many men had their bodies broken for pennies on the dollar. Obviously the industrialists don't want to be shown in a bad light and are censoring it. I'm disgusted.

Also antibiotics have saved so many lives yet I haven't seen one film on them. Its truly disgusting.

[boroboy]

we already have the beardy liberal leftie pricks constantly reminding us how evil the west, and white people are. Do they want to keep reminding us in the films we watch as well?

[SegelnBruder]

I don't know if you can count Django in the same category as other movies about slavery since other films on the subject take a much different tone.

I have no interest in seeing 12 Years a Slave. Every time I hear someone talk about it they talk about it all they say is how "brutal" it is to watch. Why would I want to sit through it then? I already know slavery was a terrible institution, but I have no connection to it. It seems like the people this movie appeals to are white people who somehow feel guilty about something that other white people did - despite the only things liking them being race and nationality, or people who feel the need to assert how "socially conscious" they are - like by seeing this movie they'll somehow be able to relate to what these people went through, which is idiotic.

[RandyMcNab]

there's only one steve mcqueen in my eyes. it sure as hell aint this one.

[C-Winger]

is this a competition?

how many hollywood films about the native american holoaust? How many about japanese internments? How many about mass registration and deportation of muslim males after 9/11? How many about current day slavery in Kuwait?

Typical white guilt philosophy. Look around us demographics. Millions of people live now whose ancestors have nothing to do with slavery. It's basic math. Slavery movies are horrible at the box office and even worse overseas.

Why would a mexican or asian care about about black slavery. Where's the movies on his ancestors being used as slaves?

The reparations of slavery were found in the blood of the union soldiers.

Just because it'd be a movie dealing with an era where slaves were used in the US doesn't mean it would have to be the exact same storyline everytime... I mean, you have many WWII movies with very different focuses and plots. I don't see why no one thinks that movies regarding slaves can be like that?
Could be a movie about a slave trying to escape but ends up not being able to.
Another where he makes it to the underground railroad.
Another showing his origins.
Frig, they don't even need to be realistic. Brb black batman in the 1800's.

I don't really care if there are more slavery movies compared to WWII movies, since I love WWII movies, but I don't understand why no one thinks anything can be done to make slave movies unique and entertaining.

[G T]

WWII affected almost everyone on earth and many participants are still alive today.

Slavery in America is virtually irellevant today and nobody alive today is responsible for it.

Thsre's also the fact that slavery existed long before American slavery and also included blacks enslaving other blacks so it has nothing to do with race.