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The White Savior complex throughout movie history


http://spectrummagazine.org/review/2009/12/07/hollywoods-white-savior- complex
You can find more here.

http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1525/si.2010.33.3.475

Conrack, Amistad, Freedom Writers, Half Nelson, Glory, Music of the Heart, Dangerous Minds, etc.

What would you add?

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Sandra Bullock and The Blind Side's White Savior Problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt3FoBI0lwA

When reviewing The Blind Side for the Telegraph, Sukhdev Sandu wrote “Just because the story is true doesn’t make it real.” Director John Lee Hancock chose to frame the film about a black teen who became a football star around his white benefactors, and in doing so may have actually contributed to Sandra Bullock’s Oscar win in 2010 for Best Actress. In this video, I show you how.

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The Help is one too, Its been awhile but I remember I think its Bryce Dallas Howard
s character they make to be evil,while others seem like saints and most of them probably would have been just as bad

I hear the real life guy hates this movie cause of how hes portrayed

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