Thank you ReelBlack & Professor Woods! Such an eye opening experience. Things I have always said & discussed with my family & peers. Even @ the barbershop co-workers laughed joked like I was talking another language. I used to walk out of class when rhe teacher would always show films of us being beaten or attacked by dogs. While the white kids laughed. Sent to the principles office for leaving class. I always had deep visions of flipping the script. Showing the abuse the other way around. I know that they will protest before that imagery would even get out. If we arent cast as pimps, drug dealers, slaves, prostitutes, we can forget it. Something I always pondered.
Can the professor talk about actress Cecily Tyson. I admire her very much. Why didn't she win Oscar or an lifetime achievement award Oscar for her body of work. I love the autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Charles Woods is so dead on about this! Keep him coming. I just wish he would come here to the UK and teach us Black Brits! Is he related to Paul Mooney? LOL
I agree with The Professor, their can’t be a story told without having to be very explicit, Forrest Gump talked about Jenny getting abused but you never see that why it’s a beautiful story that can be watched over again without being too graphic.
First I wanna tell you all I love this channel. I hope one day black actors totally reject these awards. We don’t need that validation because it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with the quality or talent because the bottom line everything is political.
Precious and Monster Ball did not see them... and do not want to them....Sad, mix-up movies, doing ....Do we have show everything, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Julie Andrews was the first actress to suffer from the so called Oscar curse. She Made Mary Poppins in 1964 did The Sound Of Music a year later and won the best actress Oscar for The Sound Of Music yet no one can or remember any of the films she made after the Sound Of Music. Julie Andrews career nose dived after she won her Oscar and she hasn't been in a major blockbuster since 1965
Hello! Hello! Hello! That's all I could say when Charles Wood's speaks it's like he looked into my psyche. 🤔 I've been saying this for years, but not as eloquently.
What's not really talked about is that other Black entertainers didn't support Mo"Nique. They criticized her and her efforts to value her self in Hollywood.
On the really reel we can't expect consciousness to be overwhelmingly popular in the entertainment industry until it becomes popular in our overall American social culture. It's just not there yet, but we all know the problem Racism presents in all of Capitalism. It's clear that too many entertainers are only reading the bottom dollar and not even the bottom line, the contract or the script! And put shyster agent/lawyers in between them and the actual production forces and you can easily tell why so many entertainers filmography's and discography's are so bipolar and erratic!!! And on the other point, how well read are our entertainers? I guarantee most(of the "popular" ones) will mistake complexity for depth every time and wind up in some bullshit and then blame it on lack of choices. If you have and are worth $20+million in the entertainment industry your'e supposed to have all the choice in the world...if you're truly an intellectual!
The first victim of the so called Oscar curse wasn't a African American actor. It was Clark Gable. We all know Clark Gable won his Oscar for Gone With The Wind back in 1939 and the last film he made before his death was The Misfit in 1951. Name the films he made in-between Gone With The Wind and the Misfits?
The brother said case que sera que sera que sera that's messed up yo how he put it the Young producer or director whatever brother knowing that he's powerful sucker if I was Monique I would do the same thing
