This film wouldn't even exist! This style started in the black strip clubs.
Hollywood/ white media constantly appropriate black culture and no one even cares. They steal from black culture and repackage it with white entertainers.
What's next? A film about white female strippers with big butts twerking smh!
Btw, Chocolate City sucked! I wished they put more time and effort into it.
The only info I knew about male strippers were The Chippendales, who were founded in 1970..I understand there were some gay strippers around in the middle seventies, but no organized show..what ones are you talking about?
shareNot strip clubs in general...the style that Channing Tatum does is influenced by black strippers/ hip hop etc.
shareAs far as when Chippendales was founded,it was 1979, not 1970. And stealing from black culture? Sorry but the original idea for the Chippendales came from the Village People. Had nothing to do with black culture.
shareThe original Magic Mike was based on *BIG SHOCK!* how Channing Tatum's days before he got into acting, whatever dance moves they were based on is mostly irrelevant.
It don't matter who you hear it from. It's the same story.
I understand strips clubs were not originated by black culture BUT the main attraction is Channing Tatum. His moves are largely influenced by black culture. Hollywood would never cast a black actor as the main protagonist in a film like this even though the moves are originated by black people. That's what pisses me off.
shareThere are videos in YouTube from time Channing was actually stripping and he have same moves there.
So it´s based on what he really did when being stripper.
What's next? A film about white female strippers with big butts twerking smh!
Urgh, just enjoy the movie, it's not supposed to be deep or meaningful.
shareThe movie does a very nice job of paying tribute to the origins of the moves. In fact the climactic dance is Magic Mike mirror dancing with his black equivalent/superior.
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You're an embarrassment. Check yourself before you make everyone (black) look like a racist.
shareI must be some type of sorcerer; I can make an entire race look racist by posting a comment on IMDB :)
shareWas about to say the same thing lol
The interwebz never ceases to amaze me...
Yellow you're so obviously a moron and so full of *beep*.This is the stupidest thread I,ve ever seen!grow up and get a life.
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You must not have actually watched the movie- half of the dances are performed by black men at a black strip club. Their MC is strong, successful black woman. The "cultural appropriation" argument here is little more than whining- does a white stripper need to throw out a disclaimer before perfoming that a black person probably did those moves before they did? If I make sushi do I need to make sure to give credit to the Japanese, lest I be accused of appropriating their culture? Or should people just never steo outside their own cultures so we never offend anyone? Segregation, as we know, works out so well...
No one is claiming these dances where invented by the white actors in this movie. That's ridiculous. Live and let live, and enjoy how talented these dancers are! :)
I don't give a crap if he dances the way he dances. I didn't watch the movie to give any deep thought to it, I watched it to see some hot guys shaking it and I didn't care what color they were. Maybe use that argument on something that really matters and not on a movie about male strippers. And BTW, this movie is nothing like how real life black strippers dance. If anything it is extremely tame compared to the real stuff. YouTube is filled with many examples.
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