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I don't miss the "Black guy always dies" trope in movies (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was watching Jurassic Park 3 today and I was reminded that all 3 of those movies had the black guy die. Horribly. It can only happen so many times before you start to think something's up. It happened all over, action films, horror, thrillers. The worst is when the black guy goes to get himself killed and then none of the other characters even comments on it after he disappears.

The word "representation" gets a lot of flack, but when I was growing up it was really demoralizing to watch film after film where the black dude was either a clown or was horribly killed a few minutes into the movie. Unless it was a hood movie anyway, but there's an obvious problem there.

Anyway, this isn't one of my more thoughtful rants, but just something I actually do like about modern film.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Someone should do a horror movie where the black guy keeps finding himself in the position of Guy About to Die, only to accidentally end up fine each time and survive the movie. He trips on a loose floorboard just in time to inadvertently dodge the crossbow bolt, he decides to go use the restroom right as the killer is passing by, his phone gets a text at just the right time and he doesn't notice the eyeless ghost in the mirror that kills you for looking at it. Give me a black Arthur Dent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

That movie is called 'deep blue sea'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In a more figurative sense, isn’t that essentially what happens to Daniel Kaluuya’s character in Get Out?

He was not having the shenanigans going on in that mansion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Nope also subverted the trope, although I don't want to spoil anything about that movie because it's best if you go in completely blind.

Us does the same thing actually. Big fan of Peele.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

That's almost exactly the entire plot of The Blackening