Sentences with phrase «as racist caricatures»

It's actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices: quirky Tarantino-esque monologues delivered in formal period speech; slow, rambling scenes punctuated with extreme gore; antagonists that could be read as racist caricatures, except the movie bends over backward to assure you they're not; and, to cap it all off, an operatic theme song that lays out the plot, Gilligan's Island - style.

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In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

Rockwell as Dixon, Willoughby's deputy who is a racist, a homophobe, an ignoramus, and a cop who lives with his domineering mother, is almost a caricature, surviving it only because of Rockwell's astonishing performance.

President Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) is given predictably surface - level treatment as a self - serving suit, while Alabama governor George Wallace (Tim Roth) is little more than a caricature of a racist.

As a Mexican myself, I quite enjoyed Guacamelee and I never perceived the caricatures of the characters or jokes said to be racist at all, or offending for that matter.