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So racist! Disgusting!

posted 8 years ago by miles-bennett-dyson
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I'm sick of the Hollywood's racist stereotyping of buffalo as mindless, stampeding beasts. We needed a strong lead role for a buffalo in this movie to explore their deep and beautiful culture.

[–] signlady 8 years ago

That's a good observation - I think the premise of this movie relative to the wildlife, (and in all such movies) is to help is imagine the wildness, danger, excitement of being around these big animals during that era when people were really beginning to encroach upon their ability to roam and be free ...

Since they are herd animals, not prone to attack, maybe this is just the behaviour they would exhibit when they are being attacked and confused . . .

[–] Mhjm6 8 years ago

HA!

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[–] herbsuperb 8 years ago

I wonder if Mark Ruffalo can play a proper Buffalo.

[–] Deadpool1969 8 years ago

Andy Serkis would make a kick ass buffalo.

[–] herbsuperb 8 years ago

Andy Serkis would make a kick ass buffalo.

Heh. You could replace the word 'Buffalo' with......well.....pretty much ANYTHING!

Serkis is great.

[–] elephuntingun 8 years ago

Hollywood didn't treat Costner's horse Cisco any better.

He ( Justin ) did such a great job of acting in Dancing With Wolves that he was forever typecast
and was never offered a major role in Hollywood again.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2517979/reference

http://tinyurl.com/9-simple-easy-guacamole-recip

[–] Deadpool1969 8 years ago

I heard he was up for the lead in Hidalgo and wasn't hired just for that reason.

[–] Elephantlips 8 years ago

Since a buffalo is not a race, but a species, the proper term would be "speciest".

[–] Stevicus-2 8 years ago

I'm sick of the Hollywood's racist stereotyping of buffalo as mindless, stampeding beasts. We needed a strong lead role for a buffalo in this movie to explore their deep and beautiful culture.

I imagine they probably had a to pay quite a lot for all those buffalo. Their buffalo bill would have been pretty high.

But if you think that's bad, think of how humiliating it must be for buffalo in that they are often associated with a certain city in western New York State. 

[–] JustIcy 8 years ago

Sadly, they couldn't find any buffalo actors so they had bison portray these prairie denizens. Do they even speak the same language?