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Robert De Niro and  Eric Newman

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𝘔𝘺 own 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 : 𝙋𝙀𝘿𝙍𝙊 𝙄𝙉 "𝙂𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙀𝙇𝘿𝘼", 𝘾𝙍𝘼𝙕𝙔 𝙊𝙍 𝙉𝙊𝙏?

Because maybe it's just my hope of seeing him, even a small secondary role, again in a "Narcos"-style atmosphere 🙏

And you, you think it's crazy or maybe not that much?? 😁

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Bright (2017) Review

[Spoilers ahead]

Grade: F+

What I hate about it:

I hate all the overarching metaphors for racism, full stop. It was hard for me to make it through the first half of the movie because I truly hated them that much. I don’t care that it was about species. I hate any film or other piece of media that tries to reconstruct actual issues that people of color face, especially black people so that it’s more digestible for white and non-black audiences. I hate that people feel like they can describe our experiences for us and they somehow “got it”. I hate that people feel they can somehow connect on these issues because now they see the same shit presented just slightly different on screen. I have a strong resentment towards filmmakers and storytellers who do this. It’s a shitty self-righteous and self-serving way for them to cater to an audience that clearly cannot accept our actual real-life experiences. It’s a way for them to pat themselves on the back and make it easier for them (and their audience) to sleep at night knowing that they made something that will truly get people to understand black experiences in some “new” or “unique” way. It keeps non-black people a step removed from reality on shit like this. It’s part of the white savior/white ally complex. Fuck a l l of that to be honest.

Here are a couple other instances in media/pop culture where white people have done shit like this (i.e. - creating media involving racism metaphors so white people can continue to live in the comfort of their worldviews and privilege/altering or using unchangeable features people have to make racism more digestible/removing or ignoring the element of intersectionality/creating their own version of real-life issues so that the narrative is easier to understand than the actual issue itself):

Detroit

JK Rowling’s using blood lineage as a way to depict racism/discrimination, as if I’m supposed to believe actual fucking black people didn’t experience racism in the magical world as regularly as they would among muggles

The political tone of the film with these damn metaphors extends throughout and I’m kinda mad at Will Smith especially for agreeing to do some shit like this. I understand you gotta get money, but why do you feel like you have to help these white people reimagine our experiences this way? Especially in 2017, when issues of police brutality, corruption, and police killings are at the top of the list of political issues black people face?

The metaphor I hated the absolute most: near the beginning when Ward confronts Jakoby about if some shit goes down with some orcs, is he gonna choose his job or his species. Honestly, what the fuck was this? Are we supposed to sympathize with people in real life being forced to choose between their job and fighting racism? At the end of the day, whether the person is a cop or unemployed, they will still be fucking black and stand a chance of facing the same racist shit as the rest of us. When black cops go home at night and take off their badge & uniform, guess what? They’re still black af. Not sure what the fuck the movie-makers were trying to do there, but that’s the real life bottom line. I hated everything about that: that filmmakers would have Jakoby state what he thinks the “right” decision might be, that they think they can even understand what real life ass people experience in those situations enough to portray that shit on screen, and that this is must be the only instance of sacrifice cops of color apparently face when they have a non-black partner. I hate that any of that shit was perpetuated. Period.

I also hated Ward’s entire dynamic tbh: the role of the guy that’s clearly fucking racist and just sticks with the situation because he has no choice- and because of that he’s about to be extremely resentful to the minority and make his life fucking miserable. Because his character made some decisions in regards to Jakoby that were clearly causing some internal struggle, the story perpetuated that it’s ok for racist ass resentful white guys to demonstrate this behavior as long as “at the end of the day, they’ll make the right choice” and “this person of color should be grateful you helped/befriended them” even though they’re still clearly a piece of shit that believes this person to be lesser/subhuman. That’s what his entire behavior and dialogue perpetuated, point-blank.

I also hated that the cop corruption issue was never really addressed. I hated the cover-up Ward did at the end for the sake of the story-telling. Who knows how far that kind of corruption extends. And we get a piece of it at the beginning I think, when they have that whole bit with internal affairs and framing Jakoby to get him fired.

What I liked about it:

Jakoby. Honestly just his authenticity and perseverance alone to a real-life, good-natured person was A+.

Noomi Rapace. Even though her lines were wack and I hated her weave, she still fine af.

The one Mexican sheriff guy that [kinda] believed/helped them.

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Eric Newman, Whose Coins Told of America’s History, Dies at 106

Mr. Newman, a numismatist for nearly a century, was one of the country’s most distinguished authorities on the art and history of coinage and paper money.

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Sofía Vergara deslumbra como Griselda Blanco em novo trailer

Descubra o poder de Sofía Vergara como Griselda Blanco na nova minissérie da Netflix! Um mergulho no mundo do crime com elenco estelar. Não perca! 🌟 #Griselda #SofiaVergara #Netflix #Narcotrafico

A Netflix acaba de soltar o aguardado trailer oficial de “Griselda” com Sofía Vergara. A atriz é conhecida por sua versatilidade, e assume o papel da icônica narcotraficante colombiana Griselda Blanco. A atriz não só brilha diante das câmeras, mas também deixa sua marca como produtora executiva da minissérie. Eric Newman e Andrés Baiz, os cérebros por trás de Narcos e Narcos: México, também…

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Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

If you’re familiar with Andrea Long Chu, it might be for her marvelous takedown of Bret Easton Ellis (“an angry, uninteresting man who has just written a very needy book”); or the equally-deserved …

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@Netflix anuncia la segunda temporada de #NarcosMéxico Redacción EMx |  Netflix anunció este miércoles que Narcos: México regresará con una segunda temporada, en la que también retomará su personaje de Miguel Ángel Felix Gallardo, el actor mexicano Diego Luna.