So happy this whitewashing crap is getting terrible reviews.
Yep...make a movie about a movement that included all types of LGBT people... but take away the "T" and make the lead white lol.
shareTwo-thirds of the protagonists were drag women of color. And I say this as someone who gave it a marginally positive review.
shareYes but....Is true that the whole movie was centered around the made up white kid? Even the non-white characters were concerned over his problems most of the time, no?
shareNo, the other characters have their own lives and problems. It's "centered" on him in the sense that it's his story, but the neighborhood and the people and what happened is pretty accurate. It takes liberties, like every fictionalized story that takes place in a historical event, even Shakespeare's history plays, but they mostly don't matter, because this isn't a documentary about the riots; it's a fictional entertainment. The big mistake was calling the movie "Stonewall." It gave people the wrong expectations.
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.-Oscar Wilde.
Two-thirds of the protagonists were drag women of color.You should put the cap back on your glue stick.
That's my 2 cents and no, you can't have it! share
Dear Patrick_Bateman--That's just not true. Three of the major protagonists of the first of five nights of demonstrations were Marsha Johnson, Jackie Hormona and Zazu Nova, who were, in the language of my day (I am 63) "drag queens." There was one fierce lesbian. The majority of the rest--gathered outside the bar-- were homeless gay boys, who were (also in the language of my youth) "queeny." Most of them were white. The first night, the first riot, took a long time to actually happen--it was a slow burn. Nobody knows who threw the first object. And I've always felt that that was a good thing--never knowing. Because it was, in the truest sense, a collective gesture, everyone had had enough.
This move is terrible, but not because it excludes "drag women of color." It's poorly acted, written, edited, photographed and bad history. The story of the Stonewall is highly dramatic. It certainly didn't need a fictional "hero." Or at least not the one created for this film. Everybody on the streets that night, and in the nights that followed, were heroes. In any case, the riot seems almost an afterthought in "Stonewall." I know it's not a documentary, but, still...
And yes, I used to go to the Stonewall. I was a queeny, homeless gay boy. And no, I wasn't there that night. (I slept the entire day and night of the riot, having exhausted myself seeing Judy laid out at Frank Campbell's--the last hours her casket was open to the public, before the funeral. When I woke up, I found to my amazement, that my world had changed.)