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Venom is based on a long held Hollywood racism...

posted 19 years ago by naisox
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I'm not sure how many of you noticed this, but the trailer is filled with Vodoun (Voodoo) imagery. The box from which the "evil" comes is decorated with vévé, ritual drawings, representing the spirit Danballah, Vodoun's *very benevolent* and *most elevated* diety. I'm tired of Hollywood using Vodoun as a source of evil. Be creative for once!

Notice how the people who are associated with the box, who know what's in it and how to protect against it are black? Notice how Vodoun is a African-derived religion maligned by the Western world ever since the black, enslaved Haitians expelled the French from Haiti? Isn't it bad enough that the United States has done everything in its power to use Haiti for its own benefit, leaving its inhabitants in subhuman poverty (and don't argue against this with me with out knowing some history), without perpetuating the stereotype that their most cherished beliefs are not just subhuman but EVIL?

This kind of movie makes me sick -- Skeleton Key included. You don't have to be black or a Vodousih to feel this way -- I'm neither. Just a concerned anthropologist trying to educate a little bit...

PS Notice how movies with "Voodoo" as a modern evil always SUCK?

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[–] StoneGriffin 14 years ago

Sounds like a liberal arts professor. So we're enslaving the Haitians by sends hundreds of people to help and Billions of dollars. How do we benefit from doing this? You're an idiot academic, which is 100% what's WRONG with the collegiate system in the U.S. Too many Ivory tower morons.

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

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[–] GMEllis625 14 years ago

Have you watched the movie since you posted this?

The suitcase was decorated with vévé because it contained snakes that were used to milk evil souls--the vévé was used to keep them contained. The black mambo woman was moving the suitcase from its burial place because developers (might as well add "evil, white" to developers) were encroaching on the area and would likely release the snakes accidentally. In describing her grandmother, Cece talks about how much good she did and how she helped save the souls of the most evil men.

I didn't see a single instance of voodoo portrayed as bad or evil in this movie.

[–] Otkon 14 years ago

I am posting here because this is the earliest topic on my history. Still a crap movie.

[–] Otkon 8 years ago

And five years later it is still the oldest post of mine. I will find you, Charlie Brownwater, maniac raisin of selling control. Begging father show *wink* *wink* happy glove under star.

[–] 11 years ago

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