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by gcb0 3987 days ago
are you guys for real? half the movies from hollywood have a black or gay lead.

this isn't the 50s anymore. i don't know about france. but hollywood is way past that
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huac 3987 days ago
That's an absolutely ludicrous statement to make, for lots of reasons. Half!? I'm going to just leave some actual, scientific studies instead regarding race and gender in movies.

(17% of movies didn't even have a single speaking black character, as of 2013)

http://annenberg.usc.edu/pages/~/media/MDSCI/Racial%20Inequa... http://annenberg.usc.edu/pages/~/media/MDSCI/Gender_Inequali...

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kaitai 3986 days ago
Just for fun, check out http://everysinglewordspoken.tumblr.com/

It takes a movie and cuts together every single word & sentence spoken by an actor of color. Often the intro music is longer than the compiled lines. Moonrise Kingdom: 10 seconds.

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ectoplasm 3986 days ago
Per capita in the US, it's far worse for women.
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