Token black guy


Why do movies feel like they need to add at least one black character otherwise they may be labeled as racist? It is so obvious when you get a movie like this. 7 white college kids and one black guy just hanging out. His hair in dreadlocks. I don't know. It is just so obvious and it gets tiring when I see movies like this where it's obvious the only reason a black character was added was so they can say "see we have a black actor in here too". I see movies like this all the time. 6 white kids and one black. 5 white kids and one black.

Anyways, still thought the movie was hilarious.

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At least he didn't die first. That's considered 'progress' in Hollywood!


Our whole Universe was in a hot, dense state...

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I think that was the point - this movie was intended as a satire of every other tired, old, cliched slasher flick. The "token black guy" was yet another trope stolen from that genre.

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I think that was the point - this movie was intended as a satire of every other tired, old, cliched slasher flick. The "token black guy" was yet another trope stolen from that genre.


That's exactly how I took it.

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That's exactly how I took it.


Or people can take it as 5 kids in a horror film! How amazing is that thought?

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Well, I find it hard to believe when they cast the black actor to play one of the five kids they didn't notice he was black. That would be pretty amazing indeed, if that's just how it turned out and they never intended on it being a black person.

Again, this was a PARODY.... one of the things they were parodying is how all the old teen horror films have that token black person and they always get killed... usually the first one.

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This.

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Lol, I guess especially in these type of movies the token black guy is already a must. In general it's politics. There is probably a law that dictates you need to have at least one black guy in the movie even if it's a movie about the Vikings.

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you are so right, the black guy dont fit in anywhere with this crowd.

and yes the movie is epic :-)

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That was the joke

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Wasn't there 2 black people, believe it or not some white people have black friend's.

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and some black people have white friends.

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*friends

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One of the girls was 'of colour', although I don't remember whether she was mixed, or simply 'non-white'. Many white people have black friends, brown friends, whatever. Some of us even have brown or black relatives - geesh!

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I know it's not impossible. My problem with this is that it seems like almost every single movie does this. If it's an all white cast they throw in the random black guy. It's just unrealistic

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Such an ignorant comment.

First, as other mentioned, there was a Hispanic or mixed girl in the group as well.

Second, you're acting like it white people cant have black friends or black friends can't have white friends.

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The problem is, these movies don't have anything to do with each other. So if you acknowledge that's it's possible, then there's no legitimate criticism unless you want to argue that Movie A can't have a black person who is friends with a white person solely because Movie B did. Since Movie A has to be taken on its own merits, the fact that Movie B did something has absolutely no relevance to whether or not Movie A does it. So we move on to Movie C, which also has a black friend. Now you might say that three movies all have a black person who is friends with a white one? Unrealistic! But it's not a valid argument. You've already acknowledged that it actually happens in real life. So does the fact that "Tucker and Dale..." has a black friend mean "Friday the 13th Part 55" can't? See the problem with your argument? As long as it's possible, each movie can have it because there's no logical reason why the presence of black people in other movies should make a black person in this particular movie suddenly more unrealistic than it was before. In other words, if only one movie in the history of cinema had a black friend, you wouldn't have made this argument, right? So how could a second movie with a black friend suddenly make the black friend in the first movie somehow unrealistic?

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This was filmed in Calgary, Alberta. Not West Virginia.
In Alberta they mainly abuse the NDNs & to a lesser extent, the Vietnamese.
The majority of Black folks up there are fellow Commonwealth citizens from former British Colonies & speak better English than we do. It's a Canadian movie. That's why it's funny.
But yes, it seems to be SOP that you have a black guy or couple (isn't the brunette in this a black girl? btw) in every slasher flick. It is one of the conventions of the genre that is being mocked.

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