A movie like Black Panther that's set in Africa with a predominantly black cast
tells black audiences in particular that they, too, can be heroic and that their stories belong in the larger cultural canon.
Not exact matches
«The idea that we're going to give you a
black box and it auto - magically fixes everything, that's a lie,» Hindawi
told the
audience.
«I
told Beyonce that I was afraid the predominately white
audience at Coachella would be confused by all of the
black culture and
black college culture because it was something that they might not get.»
Trudeau
told a
black - tie - and - gown
audience in Hamburg, Germany (text, video) that for too long, executives have been putting their shareholders ahead of their employees, their workers» families, and the communities in which they operate.
«I don't know what kind of a n --- wouldn't vote with a
black man running,» he also
told the
audience in the St. James Baptist Church in Forsyth, Ga., according to the paper.
Essentially inspired by elements of the Motown story and the real - life rise of The Supremes, the musical
tells a cynical tale of how
Black music broke through to a mainstream
audience, but lost its soul (as well as its Soul) in the process.
Austerberry
told the
audience how Del Toro had originally wanted to shoot the film in
black and white but changed to color.
«As
audiences stay with us and
audiences keep
telling us, as they certainly did all around the world with «
Black Panther,» that they're embracing new ideas and new visions and new places and new ways of
telling stories, we will just continue to grow and build on that,» Feige said at the time.
Wonderstruck will likely divide
audiences who can't make it past the sharp contrast of two stories being
told simultaneously; one is silent, in
black and white, while the other in color with audio.
But now that he has set his mark on Hollywood history as surely as his handprints have been immortalised in cement outside the Chinese Theatre in LA (extreme left of the entrance, between Danny Glover, Walter Matthau, Michael Keaton, Susan Sarandon and Oskar Werner, if you're curious) he has license, if he wants it, to change, to experiment, maybe even to subvert his image — to give
audiences black and white more opportunities to say (as he
told The Telegraph in 2013), «we haven't seen Denzel like that.»
And earlier this month,
Black told an
audience at the Omaha Film Festival that he would be writing the script.
Captain Marvel star Brie Larson has
told her fans that
audiences who see Marvel Studios»
Black Panther will «exit forever impacted.»
Specifically in this case, young comedian Floyd Mooney (Jay Pharoah) wrestles with whether to semi-abandon his modestly successful career
telling jokes to
black audiences and pursue a film career in which he might achieve major fame and fortune by appealing to mainstream
audiences.
This speaks, of course, of larger industry problems, of issues of funding and distribution, of what stories get made and marketed to larger
audiences, of which films get studio backing, which stars get cast, etc. but it nevertheless seemed rather
telling that stories of young
black men and cross-cultural relationships, and foreign films about burgeoning and belated sexual awakenings end up ghettoized this way.
Tatum
told the
audience that it doesn't matter whether teachers are
black or white — it's about how you are going to do the work.
Mosley
told an
audience at the St. Joseph County Public Library that he didn't know where to take Rawlins, the
black World War II veteran private eye whom the world first met in «Devil in a Blue Dress.»
He
tells Develop about the show's creation, the wild reception it gets in nations where the only market for games is the
black market and why he feels video game music is reaching a wider
audience than ever today.
«Fuck the knowledge that's inside me, and gets used against me,»
Black told the
audience toward the end.
So, if you're still floating aimlessly somewhere in the resume
black hole, then it's very clear that you don't need yet ANOTHER person reviewing your resume (and
telling you it's fine as it is), because something is obviously not reaching and speaking to your target
audience the way it should.