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what if it were the other way around...? Posted on 04-23-2005

P o e t i q R e i g n
Greensboro, NC
If the characters of "Guess Who" (with Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher) were race-flipped...would it have been just as entertaining and comical...or might it have had more of a racist tone to it? And when I asked my homegirl this, she reminded me that this was a remake of a movie where it actually was race-flipped ("Guess Who's Coming to Dinner")......to which I told her that I already knew this...but think about when that movie came out...1967!! That was back during a time when the racial situation in America was much different.... I'm asking about NOW....what would things be like if a movie like that were released NOW? Would it be considered funny and/or entertaining by the masses? And if so...exactly which actors/actresses do you think it would take to make it funny (assuming you think it'd take certain people)?
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Hahaha replied on 04-23-2005 02:06PM [Reply]
i think it would have been entertaining...i think it's cool when whites can actually make fun of blacks without being called racist or whateva...it's just a sign that all this racial tension is slowly fading away....oh i ain't talkin' bout no junk dem cats did in cincinnati... 8-) (nessa)
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Hahaha replied on 04-23-2005 02:41PM [Reply]
somebody else comment dammit, this is a good topic...smh@yall afraid to post or some sh!t? 8-) (nessa)
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replied on 04-23-2005 03:37PM [Reply]
I think if the script was flipped it would still be entertaining as long as the writers refrained from being racists. I'm not sure who I would want to see act in it though...
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Hahaha replied on 04-24-2005 12:14AM [Reply]
i just saw the movie today...poetic inspired me...thanks for helping me to put a bill in bernies pocket...it was okay...2 out of 5 stars...i don't know why they present it as a comedy, but i think they should call it something else...it just had alot of messages about i dunno blacks and whites and thier differences and whatnot... WHY IN THE HECK DID THEY HAVE ASTON KUCHER PLA THE PART OF THE WHITE DUDE??? had it been anybody else, i would have taken the messages in the movie more seriously... he's a knuckle head who tries to act black on the stupdi a$$ show punked...no talent (blip) :???: 8-) (nessa)
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Hahaha replied on 04-24-2005 09:13AM [Reply]
did anyone else notice the dark skinnned chick played the stereotypical dark skinned chick?? when is a dark skinned woman ever gonna get a man??!!! and bernie mac black as a jelly bean spitting out that light skinned girl and married to a light skinned woman??? liberal holly wood is the reason why i am so messsed up now!!!:x 8-) (nessa)
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