I have a feeling the original poster must be a troll, no way is someone who can put together that coherent of a sentence that stupid. The real question is, are all the people who essentially agreed actually that stupid? It's a little worrisome to think too hard about.
This whole project was Will Ferrell's fun idea, and yes, his whiteness is part of the joke, as is "the way he talks", mocked by his own father. As someone else pointed out, the entire movie is subtitled, which typical American audiences hate (note the gross for this movie...), and the whole movie is full of references to classic Mexican film/TV cliches, which largely do not apply to any English-language works of that or other times.
So how is this nice thing that Will Ferrell did, actually paying attention to the large Spanish-speaking minority in our country, supposed to be a bad thing? Does someone out there who watched this silly, simple story really think this was some "hot script" people were dying to make, and "they" cast Will Ferrell to sell it to English speakers? Think about it for more than 2 seconds, and if you come out with the same conclusion, then you truly are an idiot. O un burro, si prefiere.
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debrah-nava
12 years ago
All this racist BS... is going to be over in a few generations anyway... the argument is already becoming irrelvant as our races continue to mix. I'm a daughter of a Native American man (from the Rez-Full Blooded Indian) and a Spanish woman. So, I'm half Spanish & half Mandan/Sioux. I married a Mexican man, both my kids look totally white, with hazel/green eyes, brown hair, tan skin. They look a little hispanic but more white. As they go on to have their children, I'm sure they'll have mixed race children... Americans are just that... a cocktail of mixed races. We really need to over what is and isn't racist and just embrace our 'American-ness'.
'those who were seen dancing were thought insane by those who could not hear the music'-Nietzsche
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