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

submitted 10 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] 12 points 10 months ago

I was just watching JP3 and feeling bad for Nash (and Cooper), because they die badly and are later part of a poop joke.

Still love the movies overall, but yeah, that trope is certainly... well, a trope. It really is everywhere. Only include 1 or 2 black characters in a cast, then kill them off. Fucking wild the shit media did in my childhood that I can only notice now.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Having two guys get eaten by dinosaurs and then making it a joke because of poop is really fucked up actually

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And it's not like either of their deaths were particularly clean or quick. Cooper's actor did a really good job with his last line. Felt like genuine terror. And Nash? Poor bastard had way too much time to suffer.

But hey, funny poop joke pulling out their bones and being stinky.

2000s were fucking wild.

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