Hey Hollywood! STOP IT NOW
A list of common problematic cinematic troupes/themes/patterns that make me want to yeet myself into a parallel universe
A list/rant of things I think are overplayed and outdated in the entertainment industry:
-White girls playing ingenues
-the quirky Black best friend
-the gay best friend
-when the Black best friend and gay best friend have no character development outside of the white lead
-every interracial couple being half white
-darker skinned people playing lower class roles
-White savior roles
-Magical negroes
-noble Savage roles
-ALL WHITE ANYTHING (in front of or behind the camera / on or off the stage)
-piling as much diversity into one character and calling it a day
-slave movies
-nerdy Asian stereotypes
-hypersexualized Black and Asian femme characters
-global majority poverty porn
-the only Black character dying unnecessarily in horror/thriller films
-another movie about police killing Black people (aka another slave movie)
-all the Latinx characters being White
-all the Latinx characters being drug dealers
-all the femme Latinx characters being hypersexualized
-Middle Eastern characters being terrorists
-Demonizing non-Christian religions and spiritual practices
-THE TOKEN OTHER
-all the leads falling into Eurocentric beauty standards
-hair and makeup people who clearly don’t know how to do Black hair or beautify melanated skin
-SLAVE MOVIES
-using colorblind casting as an excuse to cast White people in POC roles
-just Colorblind casting (eyeroll into another plane of existence)
-Black/Latinx maid characters
-characters being undesirable because of a disability
-trans women dying
The people who continue to use (and overuse) these outdated and problematic troupes will be outgrown by the industry and THANK GOD. We have all seen too many of these types of stories and I am very excited to see something that actually makes me say “YAY!” instead of “YIKES!”
What are some other problematic troupes that you think we can put in the dumpster fire?
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