Suggested racism?


They have one person of color in the film. A lovely woman with blue eyes. At one point she refers to the captain of the vessel as "master". another scene in the film has a gorilla on the ship with a noose around its neck. Were the writers trying to say something without saying it?

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It's just a stuffed animal toy. The girl & the guy you're referring to were messing around & had a love/hate relationship in the movie and it looked like she liked being sarcastic to him and to antagonize him.

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It was the early 80's, there were no black characters in "Weird Science". A lot of movies and shows in the early 80's lacked black lead actors.

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especially in Italy.

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I can't figure out why people can call a movie racist because it has only one colored actor. Duh, maybe there weren't any available and even there was, I think they had better judgment than to take part in this filth..

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She wasn't black but, it was a little racial. She and that guy were having an affair. Then blondie comes along and our ethnic beauty immediately becomes dumped, and pretty much written out.

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Yes. The filmmakers were trying to help all of us identify the morons living among us. Those are the people who point out or complain about a movie that has no black/asian/latino/dutch/conehead characters.

Some of the best movies ever made have no black actors. Some of the best music had no white musicians in the studio. And some of the best food has neither race in the kitchen.

Life is not politically correct; why should art be? Simply because it would make some people more comfortable? Art should never be shackled by the chains of comfort or conformity. Art is the language of rebellion. If that makes you uncomfortable, it should.

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Bravo sir

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That's right. No one in the film have had parents of different races and one traits were dominant and you'd categorize them as something they wouldn't. Kinda of like Obama coming from a white mother and black father.
But it's ok to have a miss black usa pageant and that's not racist?

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C'mon, kids. Everybody knows a troll when they see one.

Bava racist? Who cares.

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