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hannahwashington · 4 days

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looking through lists of south african movies on letterboxd to log the ones I've seen and remembered that leon schuster is a guy that exists, and not only that but many people consider him a national treasure, and now i want to blow things up with my mind

#he is not seeing the pearly gates ❤️#while yes! south african humour is quite far removed from western humour #this is! something else entirely. yknow how s**th p*rk uses the 'we make fun of EVERYBODY' excuse? that's his too.#its one thing if i didnt like his style of humour (slapstick that gets old very quick)#but a whole other thing that black south africans are constantly stereotyped and made fun in his scripted movies #like. completely disproportionately.#he has apologised for using blackface and profiting off of it. however! he is incredibly insistent that his movies weren't hurting anyone.#mhm. sure.#and before anyone yells at me about there's a zulu on my stoep (or yankee zulu for you non south africans) being the highest grossing #movie to come out of south africa. have you considered that just because something was popular that it doesnt denote good quality?#many such cases.#'but it's an anti-apartheid movie!' that doesnt absolve it of criticism? lmao???#i realise now that most young south africans couldnt give even half of a shit about him because i havent heard him mentioned #since i graduated high school #and its always adults who lived through apartheid that bring him up. always white adults. interesting isnt it!#anyways im gonna go bacj to looking for movies- wait theres a slumber party massacre remake??? what does it have to do with south africa??#hold on a sec what #update: i forget that here is a very popualr filming location. that makes more sense now

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