#like. in THE BOOK persuasion lady russell was lowkey a mean classist bitch | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

zevranunderstander · 2 years ago

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hate how scared modern liberal movies are of making characters of color into antagonists of any sort? like i know it depends on what kind of story you want to tell, but if it's a "colorblind" story that's just like, "regency era, but diverse" or whatever and all of the people of color are the kind supporting cast, just go fuck yourself I'm sorry

#persuasion 2022 was sooo dirty w this #like... let actors of color play rancid people too? idk man i want to see characters.#i dont want to see you did the bare minimum and hired a few actors of color #like. in THE BOOK persuasion lady russell was lowkey a mean classist bitch #and they just.... didn't make her a mean classist bitch and just made her a kind mother to anne for nooo reason?#like also. sorry i didn't really super like gl*ss onion #(censoring just so it isn't in the tag)#bc like i get they wanted to critique billionaires. but... i dont think the movie was very smart to be honest #like it has a lot of nice funny details. but like. its all very on the nose and the pacing wasn't that great #and tbh i was like 'woah ballsy move to make leslie odom junior play some guy whose a complete suck up to a billionaire'#but like. he really was theeeeeee most harmless of them like.#this man was so insignificant to the story he was only needed to give exposition like 3 times #same w the politician woman like she had no fucking purpose to the plot #but especially with his character i felt like this could have been a great role but I think the director was too scared #of coming across racist to do anything interesting with the character at all? like what was he there for?#and like ive seen this man act this man is a fucking powerhouse of an actor you know #i was soooo excited that he was in the movie and he played like 'lowkey unimportant character number 3' like i was sooo mad abt that #like did viola davis perform her soul out on god knows how many seasons of how to get away w murder #just so that mainstream now is too scared again to cast people of color in non-'kind supporting cast 🥺' roles???#like i hope i dont sound insane but i am sooo tired of this

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