In tha performance scene when they sang "wat can I do" with the red dresses...she is CLEARLY singing sister's solo parts...pure jealousy....I did feel a bit bad 4 her character throughout the movie but that one part really killed me
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I noticed that too, but I thought it was just bad acting from Dwan and not intentional. She looked like she was looking at a teleprompter or something similar. It did throw off my enjoyment of the scene because I couldn't help but notice her singing all the words.
shareNot jealously....just "bad" acting.
The director should have caught that.
"HATERZ NEVER WIN."
you had to place yourself in the time period. In the black community a light-skinned wavy hair black girl was considered more beautiful than darker black girls. I think Delores was jealous if you remembered the scene in which Sister was getting her hair straightened it sort of comes out there. It also comes out in the scene right before their second club song, "giving him something he can feel"
I agree I though Delores was jealous of both of her sisters for that same reason and everything she said seemed to have a sarcastic undertone to it.
shareI think Delores loved her sister more than anything. She slept with that horrible ugly guy (I don't remember his name but he was like Satin's right hand man) just so she could get information on Satin to get him arrested so that Sister would be free of him. She was the one expressing concern for Sister's apparent drug problem and the abuse she was recieving. If she was jealous, would she have cared that much? If anything, I think she might have been jealous of Sparkle, because of her relationship with Stix. To me it seemed like she had a little crush on Stix, and her baby sister swooped in and got him. That's why she made such a big deal about them "messing".
shareI would have to agree with everyone else when they say that is was just bad acting. I just watched the movie today and I noticed that no one in the movie did a particularly good job of lip synching their parts. Not even the Sister character.
Do I think Delores was jealous of her sisters because they were lighter skinned than her? No. I do not. And instead of looking at the time period the movie was set in, you have to look at the time period the move was FILMED in [1976]. As you watch the movie you can tell that neither the director nor the producer of the film really tried to immerse the movie in the true time period it was set in. But were actually trying to make a movie that appealed to the generation who was going to be paying their money to see it.
So to be accurate, the movie should have been set in 1968, not 1958. Because of this, I think it the Delores character was meant to act as the "Wake up" character for the film. The character that was meant to touch on the hoops that black people in America have to jump through and show that empathy for that [keep in mind the Sparkle came out turning the time of blackportation era and movie goers were looking for that. as well the movie was written by Joel Shumacher who is a white man]
I think this is why Delores was always so "Pro-black" in the film and why she made her impassioned speech at her departure about the potential that black people have in live now. [again, a speech that would have been better set in 1968 setting, not in 1958 which would have been before the civil right movement which opened a lot of doors from black people in America]
So although you are right that there has always been a light skin dark/skin thing in the black community, this movie wasn't attempting to talk about that. It was what it was. I look at the life of the main character Sparkle and how far she came.
Yes some considered light-skinned black women more beautiful only if they were color-struck, self-hating black people. I certainly don't feel that way. I've seen attractive and ugly dark and light women, I've seen straight, wavy-haired dark women, and some nappy-headed light ones. You've gotta be a fool and a self-hating Negro, which there are quite a lot, to think only lighter women are beautiful, a person's skin color doesn't make them beautiful, its what they are and their features but whites brainwashed blacks into thinking a certain skin tone makes you better and more attractive, and if a black person is closer to their color their better then darker ones, and some blacks are stupid to believe in that and to still that colorism going on this long. I feel you're putting down yourself, your family, and other blacks when you say light is better or more attractive because that's like saying white is better, so I feel your putting down your own blackness. We don't like it when whites put us down and think their better then us but we have that same prejudice going on in our race and we of all people should know better. Lonette McKee was a wonderful actress, better then Vanessa Williams, Halle Berry, or any of the other lighter black women, Lonette didn't last long in Hollywood because she was considered too light and not black enough to get black roles, Halle, Beyonce, and Vanessa are lighter but not pale, they have color in their skin, their just a lighter color, so their considered ethnic enough to play black roles. Hollywood and their ignorance. If any light-skinned black woman should have made it, it should had been Lonette, because though she's gorgeous, she really was a true actress, not just a pretty face on screen.
I personally feel color had nothing to do with this story. In all my years watching this movie, the color issue never stuck up to me. If color was the issue then hell Sister would had been the one successful and not dying so soon (because you know light-skin people have it sooo much better) and Delores would had been the one who gets with an abusive man and gets doped up and dies from od. I feel Delores was just the angry sister, the fed up sister, the confused sister. I really don't think she wanted to be in show business. I feel she didn't feel she could fit in with either of her sister's.
Yes some considered light-skinned black women more beautiful only if they were color-struck, self-hating black people
You've gotta be a fool and a self-hating Negro, which there are quite a lot, to think only lighter women are beautiful, a person's skin color doesn't make them beautiful, its what they are and their features but whites brainwashed blacks into thinking a certain skin tone makes you better and more attractive
I feel you're putting down yourself, your family, and other blacks when you say light is better or more attractive
Lonette McKee was a wonderful actress, better then Vanessa Williams, Halle Berry, or any of the other lighter black women
If any light-skinned black woman should have made it, it should had been Lonette
WTH? She told them they shouldn't straighten their hair because it was her belief that they shouldn't--not because she was jealous of them!
shareRidiculous. I saw this movie when it came out at the movies and at least 100 times and I never once got the impression Delores was jealous. She was just different. She loved her sisters but she had her own point of view on things. She loved her sisters.
shareIt was just bad acting. Not even bad acting but she was the worst dancer/mover in the scene. I think it was she couldn't dance/move so she memorized the dancing to go with the flow of the words. In some parts she doesn't know what to do so she starts to sing the words to get the steps right.
That being said, Lonette Mckee.....wow!
"I love a girl who gives you HEAD and then lets you KEEP IT!" (The Crypt Keeper)
She was the one who was more vigilant about being black. Remember she complained to her mother about being a maid. When she left she said she was looking for something better and bigger to be in life. The reason she made that comment about her sister straightening her hair was because it just was not the cool thing to do. She is black women why is she doing that to her hair, she should just let go natural, I am sure that was her view, not jealousy. Deloris was ahead of her time in this movie. She had a Black Power view that was very big during the 60's and 70's. I guess she was a pioneer in the movement.
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