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Plotholes AND very Racist movie

posted 13 years ago by huh_oh_i_c
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This is really the most racist casted movie I've seen in the last 10 years.

All of humanity is gonna die and there's not ONE scientist of color, not one Asian, not ONE latino, etc etc.

ALL the scientists were bleachy white!

Whites are like 10 percent of the global population, so ...

And first black person we see after a whopping 15 minutes, when we've seen hundreds of faces... get this, her job is ... moldscraper!

And Baptiste is here abused, as a token black

Never would have thought this of Tom Hanks, but then, he NEVER casts black leads, or even sidekicks.

[–] dazeeek1 12 years ago

lol!! put your race card away you complete and utter mong.

Shows really you are the racist to twist such a thing.

[–] zelda_2 12 years ago

Has it ever crossed your mind, at all, that MAYBE, just MAYBE, that little town doesn't stretch under the entire globe, and Maybe, just Maybe that town happened to be centered around an area on the Earth where a strong concentration of Caucasian happen to live? Perhaps USA?

[–] DeepFriedJello 12 years ago

After many generations with a limited population, the ethnicity of these people has been bred out, with one exception.

[–] devirginizer83-1 12 years ago

And let's be realistic here...if there was an impeding apocalypse and the nations of the world scrambled to save their citizenry through high technology and billion-dollar rescue projects which nations exactly do you think would be able to save their population?

It wouldn't be Somalia or Chad. It would be Sweden, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Germany, etc. All lily-white (or mostly lily-white) nations.

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[–] andrewwjohnson 12 years ago

And did they show everone who was living in Ember?

TAG LINE: True genius is a beautiful thing, but ignorance is ugly to the bone.

[–] janar-kiivramees-2-208539 11 years ago

lol @ "latino scientist"

[–] charmkwon 11 years ago

That bothered me as well. Only a couple of brown people and no Asians or other races. I felt it would have made the movie seem more realistic to throw some other ethnicity in, since the 'entire human race' was involved in the apocalypse 200 years ago.

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[–] nephihaha 10 years ago

"Never would have thought this of Tom Hanks, but then, he NEVER casts black leads, or even sidekicks."

Larry Crowne?!

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[–] Uncle Dave M 9 years ago

At least they had a nice, little, Jewish old man... "Sul"...

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