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Originally Posted by TheDom
Mama mia!
I wrote a long post and lost it. Fuck!
Condensed form: My intent wasn't to be flippant or neglect and negate the racist stereotypes (they're there - I don't see anyone trying to deny it) but to highlight other nuances that I believe to be in the film(s) and why they resonate with me. Other then that I don't have much to argue.
"it’s... therapy!
gotta hash it out to move past it" - I hear ya and am with ya on that. I'm definitely not impervious to the stereotypes. My love of the film is not a co-sign on the racism.
Idk - my other response was better but I don't feel like recreating it and I think this one has been combed over. Hope you enjoyed that Negroni!
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My issue with some of the points made here is that they really refer to Hollywood conventions at that time: be it the "Mammy" character in Gone With the Wind or Rita Hayworth (real name Margarita Carmen Cansino) being forced by her studio to have cosmetic surgery so she'd look less Spanish. The subject matter of the Western obviously made it more visible but essentially a film like MDC was applying the same attitudes towards race that Hollywood applied to all its pictures, Westerns or otherwise. And I maintain it was actually applying them far less rigorously than most Westerns at that time.