"another fucking slave movie, oh boy"
There's really a surprisingly small amount of major American movies focusing on slaves or slavery, though. Amistad, Beloved, Django, 12 Years, and...?
Fucking bullshit.
Practically every non-Tyler Perry film featuring black people in recent years is some movie starring black people in submissive roles: The Butler, The Help, and their ilk. Slavery, or as a maid, that is the trend and it only exists to serve to remind white people of their past atrocities or black people of their past victories that they can't stop clinging to. More than that, your point is discounting the full amount of black actors depicted as slaves; it is a black actors most common go-to role. Great, let's make another one and beat another dead horse after Roots. Also, notice the acclaim of such movies. Movies like The Help and 12 Years have won award after award. This has given rise to a boom, so to speak, on exploiting black actors to perform as slaves.
Movies about slavery in recent years:
Django Unchained
Lincoln (2012)
Tula (2013)
Savannah (2013)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Belle (2013)
Movies in 2014 featuring slaves or blacks in a submissive role:
- Carry Me Home(Cuba Gooding Jr movie number 1!)
- The Keeping Room
- Book of Negroes (Cuba Gooding Jr movie number 2!)
- The North Star (another slave movie)
Great! More slave movies! I'm sure there's more too. Cuba wants to be a slave so much he's willing to act as one not once, but two times in a row. Why? Because the only way to get nominated as best actor or best film while as a black person is to play in a slave film. If not that, in a film with a submissive role (maid, butler). It's pretty tiring.
But that's okay, there's not too many slave films anyways, right? It's funny that we have a black president and the only way to get a non-Tyler Perry role today is to be a slave. The 90's were far more relevant and I'm pretty sure that outside of Django on this list and maybe a few others, most of these movies weren't made for black people either.
