Coogler flips this by making Martin Freeman
the token white character.
Not exact matches
Many
white - dominated movies feature a
token black
character (an inclusion that allows them to claim «racial diversity»).
Kirk: I really liked how in this movie, I didn't notice this until I heard on Still Processing, they pointed out that the two
white characters in this movie are the
token good guy and the secondary bad guy, which is literally an inversion of how it is in every other movie.
Should you ever run out of
tokens your
character has gone insane and their card must be flipped over to reveal the black and
white reverse side, which degrades their abilities, making them less useful, except in the case of the Journalist whose insane power to snag a clue card from the discard pile seems oddly powerful.