Message from lstribling

[Anonymous]

This quotation from the article Clay posted I found very interesting:
"But they may be shortchanging an increasingly sophisticated American moviegoing audience by continuing to tell stories about other cultures through the eyes of white, disillusioned heroes." All to often we are only allowed to look into a culture from the point of view of the hollywood star. We are short changing the cultures the movies are trying supposed to be shorting. Although we have come along a bit since the casting of a white actress (instead of the great Anna May Wong), in the Good Earth, we still have a long way to go