Racist Scene




Did any one else pick up on this.
When the first torpedos are fired at the ship and they miss by feet and the white sailors stand still and watch (as if you would). But the black guy (who is a cook) looks scared and closes the door to the galley- which incedently is not the only the sensible thing to do but the correct thing to do. So why try and make the guy look like he's a scared blacky?














Oh and Captain_Augustus_McCrae shut up you wanka

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Being a white male, I thought the same thing when I watched this last night for the first time in 30+ years...

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So if the black sailor did what the white guys did and a white sailor took cover, would that have been racist too?

Stop _looking_ for racism, particularly where none exists.

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What you refer to was an unfortunate fact of movie making before the civil rights movements finally had effect. In too many movies the role of the frightened cook would be played by Willy Best or Steppin Fetchit.

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It was a good scene and a little comic relief. Just because the cook was black doesn't diminish the scene. We all now have a black President so who cares? Really.....

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Yeah, it is an unfortunate moment in an otherwise great film.

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My dad was in the U.S. Navy, and told me the sailor did that because that's what they were told in drills. If you see a torpedo, you close the hatch.

So, maybe, if you saw a torpedo or two coming at you, you might be scared, regardless of your skin pigment, and do what you learned in the drills.

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I'm watching this now, what a bunch of nonsense by the OP. The guy doesn't go "Oh noes! Whatevers is I'm gonna do!!!!" or anything close to Stepin Fetchit stuff, he......closes the door. Honest, sometimes a black guy closing a door is just a black guy closing the door.

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Exactly.

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Indeed.

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That's your interpretation of what you saw. It didn't strike me that way at all. They all watched the torpedoes going by, as did he, but he closed the doors as he's near the aft and probably figured why not secure the room. He didn't seem any more scared than anyone else and he certainly didn't 'look like a scared blacky'. If every time you see a black man take cover you see slapstick, I think it's you who've got the race issue.

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Undoubtedly.

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I find so distressing to come to IMDB to look at comments on just about any film and some person is looking for racist issues. I almost feel sorry for them. To go to bed at night irritated with American society today because of something they saw in a film made in 1957

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Also the stewards on these ships all seem to be Filipino, even though this movie is set in the Atlantic. In the bridge playing scene in the beginning, one of the officers even called him by name, Ramon or something.

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