With this being the season of award shows in film I find it fitting to bring up a topic that is being discussed today and continues to be a topic of discussion, persons of color in film. Recently in an interview with John Stewart, George Lucas discussed his upcoming film Red Tails and the lack of interest productions company had in producing the film. Lucas stated that the reason Red Tails did not received studio support and took so many years to make is because of the lack of lead white actors in the film
Today some feel racism is far behind us, but i fact we it is still very much alive and well. Red Tails is not a film for just black Americans. This is the story of the Tuskegee airman and how their patriotism saved the United States during World War II. A film with a story of this importance would normally be fought over by studios to produce and would become the "must see" movie of the year with a white actor as the lead.
I haven't seen Red Tails for myself and I have so far only heard poor reviews, but regardless prior to the film being made the dominant studios did not want to touch it. Check out the George Lucas interview here and let me know what you think.
--Krystal
You need to see it, especially since you are DC blogger. Dr Roscoe Brown a DC native and Tuskegee Airmen was a consultant on the film.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment and I definitely plan on checking it out and giving my review at a later date. I wasn't aware of DC natives acting as consultants for the the film, but that is great.
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