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Danny Glover's Haiti film lacked 'white heroes', producers said «
US actor Danny Glover, who plans an epic next year on Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture, said he slaved to raise funds for the movie because financiers complained there were no white heroes.
“Producers said ‘It’s a nice project, a great project… where are the white heroes?’” he told the press during a stay in Paris this month for a seminar on film.
“I couldn’t get the money here, I couldn’t get the money in Britain. I went to everybody. You wouldn’t believe the number of producers based in Europe, and in the States, that I went to,” he said.
D”The first question you get, is ‘Is it a black film?’ All of them agree, it’s not going to do good in Europe, it’s not going to do good in Japan.
“Somebody has to prove that to be a lie!”, he said. “Maybe I’ll have the chance to prove it.”
“Toussaint,” Glover’s first project as film director, is about Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803), a former slave and one of the fathers of Haiti’s independence from France in 1804, making it the first black nation to throw off imperial rule and become a republic.
The uprising he led was bloodily put down in 1802 by 20,000 soldiers dispatched to the Caribbean by Napoleon Bonaparte, who then re-established slavery after its ban by the leaders of the French Revolution.
Due to be shot in Venezuela early next year, the film will star Don Cheadle, Mos Def, Wesley Snipes and Angela Bassett.
How the fuck can a film about the Haitian Revolution/Fight for Independence/Black Slave Revolt have “white heroes”??
People just make me sick sometimes.
Gon’ Danny Glover, make that film. I promise to go see it.
Go head Danny!
And to the financiers who didn’t want to give money to a “black film”? Eat obsidian.
DANNY GLOVER<3
danny glover! :D
(Source: fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
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That awkward moment when you stare in the face how NOT DEAD racism is. “Is it a black movie?” Jesus Christ....
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they must not have understood the concept or the plot of the film smh.
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I can’t wait to PAY to go see this. :)
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*pulls out hair*
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“Where are the white heroes?” producers asked. lookkidsigotcandy:
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Woooooooooow….What the fuck?!? WHY WOULD THERE BE WHITE HEROES IN A FILM ABOUT THE HAITIAN SLAVE REVOLUTION?!?!?! I...
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There are no words for my disgust. So I will just say….I WILL SUPPORT!
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From what I know of the Haiti Independence movement and the Revolution…”white heroes” do not exactly spring to mind. I’m...
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A damn shame. There are such things as a decent black film without whitey coming in and be the good guy. Racist...
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