Trailer for Moonlight African American Gay Film coming out soon

[zoltanspawn]

This is just like gays crying about not having as many gay characters on TV as straight ones, then shitting over every LGBT series newly created.

- they´re not feminine enough
- why are they so feminine?
- why is that guy so thin? we´re not all like that
- they had to put on a chubby dude, is this how they see us
- of course he is into dancing, since they think dancing is gay

I mean, have you seen Le Fou from the new Disney pic?

 

[pat grimshaw]

...Wouldn't call it empowering as much as it is compassionate.

In other words, it isn't a million-dollar feel-good movie but a million-dollar tear-jerker.

It doesn't matter either way. This little investment has already netted TWENTY-TWO MILLION DOLLARS.

_____________________________

By the way

...You watch too many movies by dead Auteurs....

...this is definitely not the film of an amateur.)

I hope you didn't misread my 'auteur' as 'amateur'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur

I don't think you can describe a $5,000,000 movie with a crew of over 200 people as an auteur movie

 

[zoltanspawn]

I hope you didn't misread my 'auteur' as 'amateur'.

No, I was responding to Taralen's claims that the film was poorly made.

 

[MorrisseyX]

A lot of words but nothing of worth. You can make up stuff and keep putting words in my mouth but you're just making yourself look even more foolish.

The only foolish person here is you. You criticize black people who are not falling over the Nigger in Da Hood movie LOL! I SAW Moonlight and I HATED IT! And the funny thing is MOST black people rejected the film it only made $22 million dollars. Great white liberals celebrated a movie about a nigger who grew up poor in the ghetto and had a crackhead mother. Sorry most black people are not interested in movies like this and you know it. But white people yeah they love these hard knock movies about niggers in the hood.

 

[MorrisseyX]

This is just like gays crying about not having as many gay characters on TV as straight ones, then shitting over every LGBT series newly created.

- they´re not feminine enough
- why are they so feminine?
- why is that guy so thin? we´re not all like that
- they had to put on a chubby dude, is this how they see us
- of course he is into dancing, since they think dancing is gay
- of course he is a constructer worker, they are so afraid of making him actually gay
etc.

Then, there is Moonlight: Oscars too white, Oscars black but not black enough, Oscars are racist whatever they do, etc.

Go watch a black screen for 2 hours, maybe that will make you happy.

It is EASY for people with WHITE PRIVILEGE to tell people of colour to be silent about racism. Moonlight is sadly a racist and very predictable film. It is not deep and it is not groundbreaking.
People have a RIGHT to complain the Oscars are controlled by WHITE LIBERALS in Hollywood. Most people on this thread seem to ignore this point. Most of these so called critics are white straight people and they are MIDDLE to UPPER CLASS. So this is about power and privilege. It is annoying that people who are privileged have so much POWER. And yes black people should be annoyed that the movies that get CRITICAL ACCLAIM are always about something so RACIST and STEREOTYPICAL. A gay thug who is a drug dealer and has a crackhead mother LOL! Sorry, most black people are not down with that. And I applaud all the black who REJECTED MOONLIGHT. If you look at all the blacks who win Oscars it is NEVER for something POSITIVE it is always for something NEGATIVE. Great, the guy who won best supporting actor for the character Juan won for playing a DRUG DEALER! Do you know how offensive that is? So a black actor wins an Oscar for playing a racist stereotype of a black man. When is a black actor going to win playing a HERO? Oh yeah, Denzel should of won for Malcolm X a black civil rights here. Instead, white Hollywood gives Denzel Washington one of the greatest actors to have EVER LIVED an Oscar for playing a crooked cop in Training Day. Halle Berry wins best actress for playing a WHORE in Monsters Ball.

 

[aaggii]

Maybe it wasn´t meant to be deep or groundbreaking.

These movies are NOT ABOUT YOU. Also, this movie is not about MOST BLACK PEOPLE. You don´t like the Oscars? Don´t watch.

So many buzzfeed words, so little information.

 

[joesman]

I know I am probably late with this but I just heard about an interesting African American film called Moonlight by director Barry Jenkins. I am not sure how this film will do? I have searched some forums online such as The Coli.com which is mostly a straight black American male website many said they would pass seeing this movie. The quandary for a film like Moonlight is who is the target audience? I am not sure straight black people would want to see a movie about gay black men? Would straight black women really want to see a movie about good looking black men who are gay? I am guessing this movie is meant for the LGBT audience? But then the LGBT audience is such a niche market too. Kind of sad, I hope people who are not gay will see this film learn something about a group of people often ignored in films. The trailer looks REALLY GOOD, the two male leads are very handsome. I also like that the lead character is a black gay man who is NOT EFFEMINATE, does not act like a woman and is not a drag queen. This movie is refreshing. I wonder though, a few years ago a black lesbian film Pariah got some buzz but fizzled out. But I read an interview with the director Barry Jenkins in the Guardian he said he is just happy the movie is made and hopes people see it. Link to trailer:

I saw the film and truthfully was not blown away. What does blow me away is how you started the thread and your enthusiasm that turns to bitterness on a very high scale. It is an independent film made with little money and it tells a young man's story in three sections. Each section is kind of a little story. We start with bullying as a young kid is being chased by a bunch of others. In my life I have known bullying to the full degree. I grew up in the south and was daily bullied for different reasons. I have been knocked down, shoved down, kicked, been spit on, called every name in the book. I came from a very poor family and no one cared that I was smacked around or for what reason. You grow into an internalized person because you are the only source of your comfort. My world was movies, and still is to a degree. Movies lost my sorrow and pain for the time I was in the theater. But you have to leave the theater.

I understand that most blacks won't want to see this film. I know a lot of people won't so an Academy Award gives the film leverage and an audience. I don't think it will change anything for anyone. I don't think word of mouth will enhance it's audience, because it is a specialized film. I am glad some people see it. The early reviewers praised the film as a breakout film and story. Those reviews got the Oscar crowd to see it. I think the producers present the film for consideration. It would not have made a dent if not for those reviewers and it certainly would not have been an Oscar contender. BTW I am a white guy who understands hate and bigotry and homophobia. I have crawled all the way through it.

I also feel deeply about the African American community from slavery to present day. Bigots and racist feed off our lives because they hate us either for our skin or our sexual orientation. I feel we owe more than we can ever pay to the African American community, but those who control what is paid or granted are the biggest racists alive even as they proclaim they are not. I understand the anger for what continues to happen and will continue to happen. BUT I celebrate that we make movies that tell a little piece of our lives and I think movies can help in relieving some of the horrors that still happen. Someone has to show it and to openly criticize a film without seeing it is defeating a purpose.

Life is about making it yourself through all the obstacles that come.

 

[MorrisseyX]

Maybe it wasn´t meant to be deep or groundbreaking.

These movies are NOT ABOUT YOU. Also, this movie is not about MOST BLACK PEOPLE. You don´t like the Oscars? Don´t watch.

So many buzzfeed words, so little information.

You are right this movie is not for ME it is for RACIST WHITE LIBERALS maybe you need some reading comprehension skills. My point is exactly that a racist film depicting black people are poor niggas in the hood is not uplifting. This movie was definitely made for a WHITE AUDIENCE. I am simply explaining WHY many black people HATE MOONLIGHT and why the box office was so poor. So a movie about black people is made for a rich white snobbish audience. These racist white snobs shower praise on a movie which reduces black people to racist offensive stereotypes. Maybe you need some buzzwords of your own and stop drinking the Kool Aid.

 

[aaggii]

You are right this movie is not for ME.

Here, I fixed it for you.

You are no one to talk for most black people. Even fucking Tumblr liked the movie and they hate everything. Go have a glass of water.

 

[rareboy]

You are right this movie is not for ME it is for RACIST WHITE LIBERALS maybe you need some reading comprehension skills. My point is exactly that a racist film depicting black people are poor niggas in the hood is not uplifting. This movie was definitely made for a WHITE AUDIENCE. I am simply explaining WHY many black people HATE MOONLIGHT and why the box office was so poor. So a movie about black people is made for a rich white snobbish audience. These racist white snobs shower praise on a movie which reduces black people to racist offensive stereotypes. Maybe you need some buzzwords of your own and stop drinking the Kool Aid.

If it was made for racist white liberals...it would have made 500 million dollars.

I think it was just an honest, heartfelt movie that anyone could watch and walk away feeling something.

 

[Sha-Rok]

It is EASY for people with WHITE PRIVILEGE to tell people of colour to be silent about racism. Moonlight is sadly a racist and very predictable film. It is not deep and it is not groundbreaking.
People have a RIGHT to complain the Oscars are controlled by WHITE LIBERALS in Hollywood. Most people on this thread seem to ignore this point. Most of these so called critics are white straight people and they are MIDDLE to UPPER CLASS. So this is about power and privilege. It is annoying that people who are privileged have so much POWER. And yes black people should be annoyed that the movies that get CRITICAL ACCLAIM are always about something so RACIST and STEREOTYPICAL. A gay thug who is a drug dealer and has a crackhead mother LOL! Sorry, most black people are not down with that. And I applaud all the black who REJECTED MOONLIGHT. If you look at all the blacks who win Oscars it is NEVER for something POSITIVE it is always for something NEGATIVE. Great, the guy who won best supporting actor for the character Juan won for playing a DRUG DEALER! Do you know how offensive that is? So a black actor wins an Oscar for playing a racist stereotype of a black man. When is a black actor going to win playing a HERO? Oh yeah, Denzel should of won for Malcolm X a black civil rights here. Instead, white Hollywood gives Denzel Washington one of the greatest actors to have EVER LIVED an Oscar for playing a crooked cop in Training Day. Halle Berry wins best actress for playing a WHORE in Monsters Ball.

I liked the movie. I'm gay, black and from Compton. My mother wasn't/isn't a crackhead & has been 100% supportive of me. However, my step-father was a drug dealer when the crack epidemic hit. I knew I was gay since I was 7yrs old; I just didn't have a term for it. I didn't engage in any type of sexual contact until I was 21...this includes kissing. So I could identify with Chiron. I didn't have to embody every aspect of the character to do so.

You're peeved about the perpetuation of black stereotypes in films. The film industry in America is a white industry, built by white people for white people films in a white supremist country. Which in turns means the Oscars is a white organization. Your issue with these type of films and the Oscars will forever continue so long as we seek validation from historically white, racist organizations. We literally don't have to acknowledge their award system; but an NAACP or BET award just doesn't have the same feel. So until we stop seeking validation & funding from white film exec daddy you can expect to see more of stereotypical black films green lit.

 

[joesman]

Screaming white racist liberals galls my ass. What would a white racist conservative do for you?

 

[Hemsworthy]

This thread is so unfortunate the way it turned out. My goodness...smh.