Thursday, September 04, 2025
"Realistic" urban movie dramas--can't have TOO much reality!
"The 60th anniversary of the Watts (los angeles) riots"]
By RM
thursday, september 4, 2025 at 12:38:00 a.m. edt
That business about the pimp in Taxi Driver (1976; the realistic script called for a black, but the studio insisted he be changed to a Puerto Rican) reminded me of the scene in Klute (1971), where Jane Fonda is seen with her pimp-white guy Roy Scheider. Roy was a good actor and looked convincingly sleazy, but it was probably another case of NOT wanting to cast a black (or other ethnic type) in the role. Can't have TOO much reality!
-RM
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Could part of the reason for lack of black criminals in the 60s and early 70s be that Hollywood types LIKED hiring Whites--out of loyalty? Today,there is no loyalty to hire Whites--except to play retards OR racist types--because blacks are running a lot of those departments now(thanks to affirmative action).
--GRA
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