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Why Can’t Hollywood Tell America’s Stories?

 

Time Magazine asks, and comes up with the answer, "[Because] Our onscreen heroes are white men. But most of us aren't"

Oh Please!

If only Chris Kyle had been Mexican, or a woman, or better yet a Chola, then THAT would have made American Sniper a success. Superman would be a money maker if played by a tranny, to reflect the real look of America. See, the problem isn't that Hollywood's version of a hero is someone who hates America, or is a bad father or husband, its that the skin color of the protagonist who hates America is wrong.

Further down in the story the author, Priscilla Peña Ovalle (who teaches media at the University of Oregon) complains that "Hollywood trades in the spectacular, the dramatic, the titillating. Even romantic comedies usually elevate the “everyday” business of love with fantasies of wealth."  Ovalle would instead have movies about more ordinary struggles of ordinary (non-white) dish washers working part time at a minimum wage job.  These are the true heroes we should look up to.