What happened to the black guy?
It showed what happened to all of his buddies growin up, but it never showed the black guy?
shareBecause he didn't survive. Don't you know the unspoken Hollywood rule that the black dude always dies first?
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it was not meant to be a black comedy so the writers got rid of him in the script
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I too wondered what happened to this character but actually he was at Barney's second wedding so Barney must have forgiven him for his earlier transgressions.
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thought it worked better with him out of the picture... you wouldn't keep a friend like that... not even barney... it wasn't like his second marriage that he just wanted out of badly... he felt obligated to marry her and then betrayed by the guy... his 'other' friends transgressions weren't as bad until the other guy slept with his second wife, and that was the end of their friendship too... and his part...
shareHe got blacker and older, due to his affliction of re-vitaligo.
shareSurprisingly the black friend was at the 2nd wedding saying "musletov" despite the fact he slept with his first wife and got her pregnant, lol
It's obvious he valued friends highly enough to forgive them.
People don't keep in touch with all their friends as they age, some (most) just drop by the wayside.
shareYeah, agreed and besides his character in the movie (not the book) didn't move the story along like the other two. And, remember we know both of them died before Barney (in the movie), think that "black guy" won out. Lol.
shareWell.... they actually edited most parts of Barney's friend Cedric (whom ya'll are referring to as the black guy.. lol) from the film. Cedric actually ends up as a rich dude in Paris in the actual book. He stays in touch with Barney for almost till the end. Cedric Richardson came to be popularly known as Ismail ben Yussf later in the story.
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