mirrorbird(22:40:04)
forgetting Anansi and a zillion african folk tales... uff... still. takes a while to pass the casting couch.
pipe(22:39:59)
Maybe not as popular if the leading black guy was played by a white guy in blackface
mirrorbird(22:39:25)
well ridiculous "blaxploitation" shit did pretty well with american blacks in the 70s, go figure, i suppose at that time it was "we finally have something of our own"
pipe(22:38:39)
Yes. From what I read, the movies were popular among the Chinese too.
mirrorbird(22:37:48)
still some good & funny films, you can see a racist film without being a racist. you just think "this was acceptable in the 80s BOW WOW WOW"
mirrorbird(22:37:24)
pipe: i really enjoyed SOME Charlie Chan films, others were crap. regarding racism: you do have to shrug and say "ppl were more racist at the time", the worst you see in Chan is not anti-Asian, but anti-black racism, that 'stupid slave' character, oiii.