stereotypes...

come up often. with the cover of vogue & lebron; which i find interesting that it is under the sports section, but anyway...this is just proving my point that i wanted to make...

this week i watched two horror movies (the hills have eye ii, and resident evil extinction); and in both movies the black man died, and the hot white chick made it out 'alive'. i put that in quotes, because we are able to make the comparison to the original texas chainsaw, where the woman (i forgot her name, but she always leaves an impression on me for obvious reason, but not to be mentioned here) gets away, but she is mentally messed up.

and we as americans enjoy this ending much more. in reference to these movies, where the woman gets out, but she is mentally scared for life. in the 'hills have eyes ii' the one of the women that got out was raped by one of the cannibals. this then becomes my question...what if she is with child from the cannibal that raped her? what is that going to do to her?

a counter point to this is the movie 'the descent' (if you haven't seen it, it is a must see). i watched the directors cut, and the directors commentary, and for the american audience they (the american audience) preferred the ending of the woman getting away too, even after such horrific experiences happening to her. the ending he (the director) wanted, and did shoot for the european audiences is that the woman stayed trapped, but was in a sense, at peace with it. she knew she was going to die, but still had her mind about the whole thing; which i believe to be a much more 'solid' ending, than the woman who gets away, and is messed up for the rest of her life.

so what's the point of all this? let the black man live, and let the hot white woman keep her mind. this just tells you something about the audience watching public.

[shalom...]