A fun thing about genre cinema is the prevalence of diverse Post-Racial criminal gangs. Something we just don’t see very often in media today where they’re almost always racially coded. But the gangs in say THE WARRIORS; ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13; and even ROBOCOP were not
A fun thing about genre cinema is the prevalence of diverse Post-Racial criminal gangs. Something we just don’t see very often in media today where they’re almost always racially coded. But the gangs in say THE WARRIORS; ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13; and even ROBOCOP were not
A fun thing about genre cinema is the prevalence of diverse Post-Racial criminal gangs. Something we just don’t see very often in media today where they’re almost always racially coded. But the gangs in say THE WARRIORS; ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13; and even ROBOCOP were not
A fun thing about genre cinema is the prevalence of diverse Post-Racial criminal gangs. Something we just don’t see very often in media today where they’re almost always racially coded. But the gangs in say THE WARRIORS; ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13; and even ROBOCOP were not
A villainous criminal gang in a 70s to 90s movie would be as diverse as the cast of THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS; today when you do a vicious criminal gang they’re always “just black people” or “just Latino people” etc.
You can’t tell me that progress doesn’t backslide from time to time because it WAS the norm for the concept that evil and crime had every kind of face. These days it feels like an effort must be made to move away from non-white cis het male faces as the go to for these archetypes
Hans Grueber from DIE HARD had a more inclusive organization than the corporation he was robbing (tho was lacking in the hiring of women compared to Mr Takagi)
It’s a small thing but it really isn’t bc you think about what you’re subconsciously communicating to the audience. When your villainous gang defies easy categorization beyond “they’re all just evil” the audience sees and feels just that. When coded as one type...well you know 😬
Anyway I miss this guy in movies lol. The sign that you were part of a diverse & inclusive criminal villain organization in an 80s and 90s picture was if Al Leong was on your side
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