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  1. A major problem with movies like and , requiring a massive disconnection from reality and suspension of disbelief, is that literally no white person has or ever can have a rightful claim to the land around which these movies are centered.

    Regardless of how many generations back white characters trace their "ownership" of the land, it always begins with white theft from those who've been there for centuries and millennia.

  2. A major problem with movies like #TheDescendants and #WhiteMaterial, requiring a massive disconnection from reality and suspension of disbelief, is that literally no white person has or ever can have a rightful claim to the land around which these movies are centered.

    Regardless of how many generations back white characters trace their "ownership" of the land, it always begins with white theft from those who've been there for centuries and millennia.

    #movie #movies #film #cinema #colonialism

  3. A major problem with movies like #TheDescendants and #WhiteMaterial, requiring a massive disconnection from reality and suspension of disbelief, is that literally no white person has or ever can have a rightful claim to the land around which these movies are centered.

    Regardless of how many generations back white characters trace their "ownership" of the land, it always begins with white theft from those who've been there for centuries and millennia.

    #movie #movies #film #cinema #colonialism

  4. A major problem with movies like #TheDescendants and #WhiteMaterial, requiring a massive disconnection from reality and suspension of disbelief, is that literally no white person has or ever can have a rightful claim to the land around which these movies are centered.

    Regardless of how many generations back white characters trace their "ownership" of the land, it always begins with white theft from those who've been there for centuries and millennia.

    #movie #movies #film #cinema #colonialism

  5. A major problem with movies like #TheDescendants and #WhiteMaterial, requiring a massive disconnection from reality and suspension of disbelief, is that literally no white person has or ever can have a rightful claim to the land around which these movies are centered.

    Regardless of how many generations back white characters trace their "ownership" of the land, it always begins with white theft from those who've been there for centuries and millennia.

    #movie #movies #film #cinema #colonialism

  6. ‘Sideways’ Writer-Director Alexander Payne on What Makes a Good Film and What’s Missing in American Cinema 🎥

    “The most important aspect is casting,” he said, citing the example of “Sideways,” for which he turned down Clooney, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton as “they were not right for that movie.”

    variety.com/2023/film/festival

    #AlexanderPayne #Movies #TheHoldovers #TheDescendants #Sideways

  7. ‘Sideways’ Writer-Director Alexander Payne on What Makes a Good Film and What’s Missing in American Cinema 🎥

    “The most important aspect is casting,” he said, citing the example of “Sideways,” for which he turned down Clooney, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton as “they were not right for that movie.”

    variety.com/2023/film/festival

    #AlexanderPayne #Movies #TheHoldovers #TheDescendants #Sideways

  8. ‘Sideways’ Writer-Director Alexander Payne on What Makes a Good Film and What’s Missing in American Cinema 🎥

    “The most important aspect is casting,” he said, citing the example of “Sideways,” for which he turned down Clooney, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton as “they were not right for that movie.”

    variety.com/2023/film/festival

    #AlexanderPayne #Movies #TheHoldovers #TheDescendants #Sideways

  9. ‘Sideways’ Writer-Director Alexander Payne on What Makes a Good Film and What’s Missing in American Cinema 🎥

    “The most important aspect is casting,” he said, citing the example of “Sideways,” for which he turned down Clooney, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton as “they were not right for that movie.”

    variety.com/2023/film/festival

    #AlexanderPayne #Movies #TheHoldovers #TheDescendants #Sideways

  10. ‘Sideways’ Writer-Director Alexander Payne on What Makes a Good Film and What’s Missing in American Cinema 🎥

    “The most important aspect is casting,” he said, citing the example of “Sideways,” for which he turned down Clooney, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton as “they were not right for that movie.”

    variety.com/2023/film/festival

    #AlexanderPayne #Movies #TheHoldovers #TheDescendants #Sideways

  11. "I was quite mystified by not seeing any people of colour around the city, in the central parts of the city ... I was aware that Liverpool had one of the oldest Black communities in the country, ... but these people weren’t visible. So I began asking a few questions, and things started to surface..." Ean Flanders

    #MarjoriesMusings #Newsletter #TheDescendants #EanFlanders #VictoriaGalleryAndMuseum #Liverpool #Windrush #Africans #Caribbeans #GlobalMajority #BlackMastodon #Portraits #Photography

  12. "I was quite mystified by not seeing any people of colour around the city, in the central parts of the city ... I was aware that Liverpool had one of the oldest Black communities in the country, ... but these people weren’t visible. So I began asking a few questions, and things started to surface..." Ean Flanders

    #MarjoriesMusings #Newsletter #TheDescendants #EanFlanders #VictoriaGalleryAndMuseum #Liverpool #Windrush #Africans #Caribbeans #GlobalMajority #BlackMastodon #Portraits #Photography

  13. "I was quite mystified by not seeing any people of colour around the city, in the central parts of the city ... I was aware that Liverpool had one of the oldest Black communities in the country, ... but these people weren’t visible. So I began asking a few questions, and things started to surface..." Ean Flanders

    #MarjoriesMusings #Newsletter #TheDescendants #EanFlanders #VictoriaGalleryAndMuseum #Liverpool #Windrush #Africans #Caribbeans #GlobalMajority #BlackMastodon #Portraits #Photography

  14. "I was quite mystified by not seeing any people of colour around the city, in the central parts of the city ... I was aware that Liverpool had one of the oldest Black communities in the country, ... but these people weren’t visible. So I began asking a few questions, and things started to surface..." Ean Flanders

  15. #7BandsToKnowMe

    This was difficult because there's MANY vastly different bands/musicians who have influenced my life & thoughts, over 40+ yrs.

    - #BlackSabbath
    - #BobDylan
    - #TheDescendants
    - #NinaSimone
    - #FaithNoMore
    - #REM
    - #AnitaMui

  16. #7BandsToKnowMe

    This was difficult because there's MANY vastly different bands/musicians who have influenced my life & thoughts, over 40+ yrs.

    - #BlackSabbath
    - #BobDylan
    - #TheDescendants
    - #NinaSimone
    - #FaithNoMore
    - #REM
    - #AnitaMui

  17. #7BandsToKnowMe

    This was difficult because there's MANY vastly different bands/musicians who have influenced my life & thoughts, over 40+ yrs.

    - #BlackSabbath
    - #BobDylan
    - #TheDescendants
    - #NinaSimone
    - #FaithNoMore
    - #REM
    - #AnitaMui