I’ve been customizing the presentation jellyfin library, and this caused me to notice that the only brown faces visible on any of the thumbnails is on Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon. I probably should be more cultured than this. What movies about non-white characters do y’all think I should add to my collection?

BTW, if you haven’t watched The Last Dragon, go watch it right now. It’s like if Kung Fu Panda took place in Harlem; sure, our protagonist Leeroy “Bruce Leeroy” Green starts the movie at a level of kung-fu mastery that Po doesnt achieve until Kung Fu Panda 3, but the plotline is pretty similar to the 1st movie in that Leeroy is sent on a quest to find a wise master known as Sum Dum Guy so he can reach the final level. Leeroy also is a fucking weeb and never stops being a socially inept dorky loser to the end of the film. I will warn you, though, that the martial arts is very Shaolin from the start and only gets crazier from there, in case that’s a dealbreaker for you. Either way it’s my favorite movie.

  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    21 days ago

    The Woman King

    Blade (I enjoyed all 3, but it helps to be high for them)

    Everything Everywhere All At Once

    Parasite

    Sinners

    RRR

    Honourable mention because it’s my favourite, for a bit of LGBT diversity - Love Lies Bleeding

    • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      21 days ago

      Sinners is such a good movie. Not just for the music and overall quality, but because it tackles the topic of whiteness and who counts in the in-group. It’s a very successful film about race.

      For similar reasons is why I’m not 100% on The Woman King, which is an interesting parallel to Sinners in a way. Sinners is a work of fiction that isn’t meant to depict real events, but feels like it is coming from a real place. The Woman King is an ostensibly historical story, but it performs a good bit of revisionism to the nation of Dahomey, which was a key participant in the transatlantic slave trade. The story of the film is one which would be nice to believe, but doesn’t feel genuine and leaves a bit of a bad aftertaste when held against real events.

      • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        21 days ago

        That’s a fair commentary, though a vast number of movies based vaguely on reality suffer from the same issue … from my list above RRR would be a good example, too, for instance. Or just about any American film about a real war.