Sentences with phrase «white savior»

There are few moments of triumph in 12 Years a Slave, barely any speechifying, and thankfully a notable lack of angelic, white savior figures to save Solomon Northrup.

No matter how good the movie looks, it doesn't quite wallpaper over the inherently icky white savior aspects of Tarzan himself (his mission is literally to free helpless African slaves), making it a strange movie to half - heartedly update for modern audiences.

(It can also fuel ugly stereotypes in which success for the downtrodden depends on charity from white saviors.)

Heston clearly loves the role as white savior, Parker's magnificent, Conrad's fun as serious comic relief.

It is demeaning to people to come to them as the «Great white savior» many people seem to have a Messiah complex when they come and rather than learning, only try to see and hear what they want to see and hear.

He's a Jungle Jesus returned to fight colonial incursion, and among the more ridiculous white saviors you're likely to see.

No, we must get more precious white saviors, and celebrate them for taking a black friend to their white country club while they wash their hands of violent racism with empty voiceovers (of course there are voiceovers!)

The view from TIFF: Mixed, with some calling it warmed - over Rambo or yet another «white savior among anonymous black folk» story, and others saying it was the most inspirational feature at the festival.

Far cry 3 has some real botched racist overtones of «going native» and white savior bullshit all over it.

International philanthropy and the western world's desire to eradicate poverty and disease can't ever truly rid themselves of their imperialist roots; as many critics have pointed out, the white savior industrial complex has never been more pervasive in global culture.

Of course, as our convictions persist and mature, we begin to see the ways in which we are complicit in global wealth disparity and injustice, and we begin to think more seriously about policy, about sustainability, about making more dramatic attitude and lifestyle changes, and about problems within some of our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes doing more harm than good.

At its core, the white savior complex is the result of a distorted view of people of color and of self.

The second overarching problem with the white savior complex, is that it is racist!

Thanks to social media, he hears people who accuse him of having a white savior complex or of being an entitled millionaire trying to stay relevant.

It also perpetuates the white savior complex where the white person.

This white savior movie can't save itself.

Unusual as it might seem at first, the fact that Agent Ross gets to put his piloting skills to work on behalf of T'Challa is not a case of the white savior.

In the scheme of Lehane's pulp narrative he is, in fact, a white savior, and while various critics and a few ordinary citizens are busy throwing that condemnation at the Ryan Gosling character in «La La Land,» a charge that makes little sense in the context of the movie itself (vanilla is one thing; white savior is a different flavor) here in «Live by Night» we have a serious case of the white saviors.

No django, no comedy, no white savior.

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl has been compared to another stock character, the Magical Negro, a black character who seems to exist only to provide spiritual or mystical help to the white savior protagonist.

Margot Robbie and Samuel L. Jackson fare a little better as the spunky Jane and John's comic relief sidekick, respectively, but they're trapped in a mostly humorless film that feels as dated as its white savior protagonist.

She's the only White person in «Isle of Dogs» and she is the film's White savior.

She deserved a nomination for transforming Selma from a white savior story into the most complex and human portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. ever committed to film.

It also makes Selma the rare studio movie about black American history to not focus on (or invent) a white savior figure.

White savior, anyone?

For those who think this looks like another one of these white savior in a foreign land films, the producers previously addressed this by saying the film itself isn't actually that way, and you should see the full film before judging.

We were very conscious of that white savior concept and wanted to avoid it.

Here was a film titled in the vernacular of urban slang, with an uncompromising view of the African - American struggle and no white savior in sight.

If casting three well - known Caucasian movie stars to play liberators of a religiously persecuted Japan doesn't scream «white savior» complex, I honestly don't know what does.

The character of Tracy is a bit of a «white savior» in her leading the protests to protect dogs while the villain we again, only hear him in his own language, as even Atari doesn't do much except want to save his own dog.

I was very excited to work with Reese, but I think there is a problem in Hollywood with making stories about the white savior coming in, and this was so not that movie.

Even though it acknowledges it, the film still boils down to a white savior narrative.

The filmmakers undermine the white savior trope by laying Ryan Gosling's inspirational teacher low with drug addiction, while Shareeka Epps» complex performance erodes the racial barriers obliquely referenced in Gosling's lectures on dialectics.

The popular narrative around this picture is the casting of Matt Damon as some sort of «white savior» in a film about China's most notable architectural achievement — except that it's not really about the Wall and Damon doesn't really save anything, though he does put to rest any sort of debate about whether or not he's a credible action star... or even star star.

Slate A tribute to Mary Tyler Moore's feminist influence Vice So as it turns out the Kevin Costner character in Hidden Figures was made into more of a «white savior» in the narrative then he was in the real life story.

Then there's exchange student Tracy Walker (Greta Gerwig) who's character is fun and whip smart and a go - getter but she sadly falls right into the «white savior» trope that is just beyond tired and is just a bad look when it's a white guy using another culture to tell that story in the first place.

It also plays too into the white savior aspect of the story.

Likewise, the film's depiction of African natives as more or less helpless against the onslaught of King Leopold's troops becomes equally offensive when Tarzan's white savior, not acting out of their interest really, singlehandedly rescues them.

Tracy is put in a position to be the white savior of the story.

His Knight falls victim to the white savior narratives we've seen far too many times in movies.

Perhaps Roth intends the film to be a cautionary tale against the white savior, as the students» cannibal ordeal only inspires the martyrdom of Justine (Lorenza Izzo), the privileged Ivy League daughter of a U.N. lawyer.

The filmmaker is clearly well - intended but, along with a rather knee - jerk portrayal of race and racism, his on - the - nose script can't escape the «white savior» trap as the better - off Sam brings light and largesse (she has a horse!)

Some audiences have accused Anderson of taking low - hanging - fruit by reusing the old «white savior» trope, but the bigger issue is the film's lack of cinematic zing and emotional connection with its audience.

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