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No Latinos in a film about salsa?


Haha, only Hollywood could make a film with Salsa in the pitch and not put one Latino in it. Can't make this stuff up.

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The ignoramuses in Hollywood are expecting the average white American to look at this poster and assume the female lead is Hispanic.

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she looks cuban


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Her father is African American and her mother is white.

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You do realize it is a British film? And there are Latinos dancing in the film.

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This. (what jac91604 wrote)

Also, I think this is fileable as barking at the wrong tree here, because if there were more "Latinos" in this film and they had to be very present and noticeable for that as well (hey! it's Salsa alright?), people would complain that they were put in there to meet the cliché that in every Salsa-related film there had to be Latinos.
I hope you see where I'm coming from and going to with this.

I just don't think people should actually expect certain ethnicities play certain roles in films because that's just as cliché and it might show that people are not as open-minded as they might think they are.

I think it's a bit weird to expect certain ethnicities to *not* play certain roles because they'd be cliché (oh noes!), and at the same expect the opposite as well.

In my experience, if I concentrate on a film as-is and avoid every comparisons, expectations and backgrounds I might have beforehand, it becomes a lot more enjoyable for me. That doesn't mean I let myself get brainwashed by it or anything like that.

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There are probably Latinos in it. Is there a particular shade of latino you have in mind?

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How do you know there weren't any Latinos in it? Or do you mean the leads? If you mean the leads, you have to realize that this was a UK film and they want their stars (O'Down, Frost) to shine and get people in seats. Seriously though, most people are pretty ignorant when it comes to the whole Hispanic/Latino thing, it has nothing to do with the color of your skin and everything to do with the culture you're from and the language you speak.

First, Hispanic is only a demographic that exists in North America & it is not considered a race (on the US census if you tick Latino/Hispanic you still have to tick white/black/asian/amerinidian/etc). Also, Hispanic/Latino countries are like the USA/Canada in that they're melting pots with no "natives" other than Amerinidians. I know so much about it bc I grew up in an area that was largely Hispanic/Latino, but in the Northeast entry point for South American middle class immigrants, so it was very different than Southern Cali. Most of my neighbors were from Uruguay, Argentina, a few from Brazil, and the Dominican. Most of them were 100% European ethnically and looked like regular white Americans until they spoke, 1 fam from Sao Paolo was straight up Japanese actually, except for one exception which was the Domincans were all basically black. What I'm getting at in a very non-direct way is that just bc someone doesn't look like you expect them to (Google the Gold Medal Argenina Olymplic basketball team haha) doesn't mean they're not represented. Wanting some dark skinned guy in a sombrero isn't helping any of us, neither is sub-dividing everyone and breaking them apart into little boxes.

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Only Hollywood is not in any way involved with this film, this is a solely British production.

Fanboy : a person who does not think while watching.

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Haha, only Hollywood could make a film with Salsa in the pitch and not put one Latino in it. Can't make this stuff up.
Wrong on all counts. You made up everything in your post.

And a film with salsa must have Latinos in it? Are you some kind of musical racist that advocate segregation of race base on music and dance?

The film is not about Salsa. It has many Latinos in it. And it's not made by Hollywood.

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Haha, only Hollywood could make a film with Salsa in the pitch and not put one Latino in it. Can't make this stuff up.


LOL, I bet this kid wishes he could have a do-over on this dumbass post.

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:

Big Talk Productions is an English film and television production company founded by Nira Park in 1995.

Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation.

StudioCanal is a French-based production (as StudioCanal S.A.) and distribution (as StudioCanal Images S.A.) company that owns the third-largest film library in the world.


Get your *beep* facts straight next time.

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If Latinos were better actors, they might get more roles.

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