October 28, 2018

This is why...

25 comments:

Yancey Ward said...

LOL! Now that was funny!

mockturtle said...

I guess I don't get it.

Chuck said...

I don't get it either.

rcocean said...

Can't get it to run. Twitter video's don't play. Maybe its on Youtube.

Chuck said...

By the way; "Night of the Living Dead" (George Romero, 1968) was the horror film that defined horror films for a generation. And it was remarkably integrated; one of the heroes of the movie was a black actor.

Romero later claimed that he had no great desire to make a statement about civil rights or integration. Viewers of the film, and especially in the current era, cannot help but impose that interpretation on the film.

I was 12 years old when "Night of the Living Dead" came out. I probably didn't see it until I was 14 or 15. And while I didn't take it as a civil rights film, even I thought it was a remarkable statement of civil rights and integration.

Chuck said...

rcocean said...
Can't get it to run. Twitter video's don't play. Maybe its on Youtube.


Prolly your browser. Try it in Chrome or some other updated browser.

mockturtle said...

Chuck says: And it was remarkably integrated; one of the heroes of the movie was a black actor.

Actually, the hero of the movie. And you're right, there was no 'race' typing involved.

Howard said...

Richard Pryor said it first:
Exorcise this Motherfucker to Cleveland

Bill, Republic of Texas said...
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Bill, Republic of Texas said...

Don't go in that room!!1!!?

Girl runs away

*Fin*

Yancey Ward said...

It reminds me of this classic Geico commercial.

Kevin said...

I just watched Night of the Living Dead for the first time last night, and it is true that he is not just one of the heroes, he's the only person in the entire movie that's worth anything at all. Everyone else is a complete worthless douche.

Maybe the TV news reader is ok, but he's just a TV news reader. The women are laughably, grossly incompetent, like you wonder how they were ever capable of physically feeding themselves level of incompetence.

tcrosse said...

Willie Best made a career out of "I ain't goin' in there, Boss"

Ron Winkleheimer said...

Eddie Murphy also addressed this subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InLfUMjyKNo

Birkel said...

Romero was anti-commercialism.
READ: anti-free markets

He wasn't worried about race because he was (is?) a classical Marxist.
Fuck that guy in particular.

Ann Althouse said...

Thanks for the Eddie Murphy link, Ron.

Fernandinande said...

#metoo not get. Mulatto girl walks into a "haunted house" setup and sees Michael Myers (?), then backs up and says something I couldn't understand - "nyup"?.

Achilles said...

I think the laugh track was confused about when to laugh.

Achilles said...

Yancey Ward said...
It reminds me of this classic Geico commercial.

Glad someone already got there.

Matt said...

The crackers in the Friday the 13th movies don't run away from Michael Myers? I'm pretty sure they do. It's just that he, you know, chases them.

So no. I don't see how this video shows why horror movies aren't made about black people. Isn't it the opposite anyway? Aren't blacks always complaining they're the first ones killed in horror movies? Didn't "Scream" make a joke about that being one of the "rules" of a horror film?

Dad Bones said...

Cedric the Entertainer explains it.

stephen cooper said...

I get it , and I also think that the twitter dude who posted it is racist.


stephen cooper said...

Maybe just Don Rickles level racist, but still, racist.

stephen cooper said...

If you read the first sentence in the great - the eternally great novel -- of L. Sterne, who lived a generation or two or five before my favorite jazz musicians were born - you will understand that it is good to make people laugh.

Rickles was funny, but, seriously, if I were in the crowd, and he insultingly riffed in one of his arrogant ways about someone I cared about ---

the fat ugly little man would have been lucky to get out of the comedy club without being insulted in his turn. What goes around comes around - I have a gentle heart, but what goes around comes around, as much as one might pray that what goes around immediately stops, and that we get to live our lives knowing God loves us, and God forgives ....

Rickles, like the twitter dude who posted the racist meme Ann Althouse retweeted, or whatever you call the equivalent of retweeting in the blogosphere - Rickles was a dirtbag. Funny guy, and like I said, it is a gift from God to be funny ---- but he was a dirtbag, his wife was ugly, and, like Don Knotts and Andy Griffith, he entered old age old and bitter,

Please do not be like Don Rickles, my friends! Sure he was a dirtbag, but so what?, God loved him too: but do not take that risk,,,,, Do not enter old age old and bitter! Read Romans, to learn the most profound truths, read Ephesians, to learn those truths with more profundity, read Philippians, to understand friendship! (I am giving you credit - I am guessing you know the Gospels more or less, in the important parts, by heart)

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