SANAA LATHAN’s new Hollywood vehicle ‘SomethingNew’ is kicking up hell’a dust on the internets ($5mil at the box office ain’t too bad either). This film marks SANAA’s return to Hollywood after being blacklisted for crashing the D-MAN’s pad late one night. For that reason I think SANAA was cast as the protagonist of this film since we heard from our HollyHood peeps that she had given up on Black men(or at least the married ones we hope).
This website is staffed by a few people that have at least 6 degrees of separation from Hollywood and we are proud and honored that the site’s executive producer has lent us some time to review this much talked about film. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to Ms. CHOCOLATE SNOWFLAKE…
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I think that the studio, Focus Films has done an excellent job of creating buzz for this film. The promos and reviews have all focused on the interracial? aspect of dating instead of the greater and more important issue that people need to be real to themslves in order to achieve real love. That is the overriding theme that this film translates to the astute viewer. African American women have been hooking up with all kinds of men since they were first brought to this country. Sometimes it was through rape, but a lot of times it was just as simple as two people sharing their love of DAVID BOWIE’s music.
Cultural differences are far more defined between eonomic classes than between races? and this film didn’t describe people from two disparate classes hooking up. Both characters were college educated and both had a clearly defined work ethic. It was not as if the SANAA LATHAN character had developed a love affair for a Mexican landscaper, which incidentally, are far more ubiquitous when you survey the actual Californian landscape. Now as far as the depiction of African American males that this film displayed is where you found all of the cliche that Hollywood keeps nestled in its’ bosoms. They were shallow and vapid as peronalities and completely on the booty-call comeup. BLAIR UNDERWOOD’s character appeared to be extra grimey but I blame that on the movie’s stylist who was obviously not an A.A. Everyone that understands the pathos of the talented tenth knows that facial hair is strongly frowned upon. And especially not a pencil-line moustache with a horrible hairline at the nape of the neck. As BILLY has oft remarked, “A.A. men are just going to have to put an ‘H’ on their chest and handle being the pop media personification of the boogeyman”. |
I agree with C.S. that this movie is not an interracial love story since the main characters were all part of the human race. So if you want to see a real interracial love story you should go see ‘King Kong’
Ya’ll need ta stop!
So are you going to write for BCdotcom on the weekend or what? First of all he could use your photoshop proficiency.
And I thought I was the only one who would notice that most landscapers in Cali are Mexican.
I’ve always thought nearly all Hollywood love stories are shite because they rarely show people paying bills. The corporate tycoon shows up to work just to talk to the mistress, the waitress talks about love instead of my fucking pancakes and nobody is ever broke. You’re right, the class issues aren’t brought up much. That’s why all my favorite on-screen romance stories involve porn. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to beat off to those photos.
The pics say it all.
You just needed the movie’s name and the photos.
I’m crying.