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Title is misleading, but not necessarily racist


The only time black people are even mentioned in this movie is when Langston goes into his Grandpa's study and sees all the art on the walls, and calls it a museum of black people.

Before and after that scene race doesn't come into this at all. So the title is misleading for one, and it was bound to upset the kind of people who ask why there is a "black this" and a "black that" - ironically the same types who tell black people to make their own films, open their own businesses etc etc when blacks complain of discrimination in various industries.

However, I'd agree that the title is stupid, and takes away from what are positive messages (albeit in an otherwise average movie). It probably pushed a good many people away from seeing the movie too - surely the opposite of what a film wants to do.


I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much - Valerie, V for Vendetta

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You DO know this is based on a 1961 play with the same name RIGHT???? Smh

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So? Doesn't mean the title can't be altered.

I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much - Valerie, V for Vendetta

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Ok

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