Is it even a fair, and does
its largely white cast owe anything to its community?
Not exact matches
No Escape — This was very cool; the
cast and crew talk about the aesthetic of the film (the way it's
largely swallowed in darkness) and director Fede Alvarez gets into one of his favorite scenes to shoot, which was the fight in the basement that he shot in black and
white.
Hollywood grapevine chatter pondered if Will Smith could play Captain America and Donald Glover campaigned to be
cast as Spider - Man; cue widespread backlash from a
largely white mainstream fan - base.
Moonlight, an intimate story of a black boy in Miami coming to terms with his sexuality, had a low profile in the industry — it was the first movie fully financed by upstart distributor A24, and the most famous person in the
cast was Mahershala Ali, a TV actor
largely unknown to Telluride's mostly
white audiences.
A robust gangster drama with a kick like the
white lightning that fuels its plot, Lawless manages to find a new take on old material, thanks
largely to an ideal
cast and strong source material.
As a film that features an almost entirely black
cast (the only exceptions being Andy Serkis as a particularly nasty mercenary and arms merchant and Martin Freeman as a CIA agent who ends up working with T'Challa), Black Panther is a standout in the
largely white blockbuster world.
This has the effect of making the film dreamlike but still mostly coherent, set in an undefined past and featuring a
largely interchangeable ancillary
cast of near identical
white people.