Thursday 27 November 2014

Bigot Of The Day - Ridley Scott

Today, the very first Bigot of the Day, is honoured by the famous film director Ridley Scott.
Mr. Scott has been making a film all about Moses, and the main characters are  catagorized as being 'white.'
This may not come as too big a surprise to some of us, as the film is being made in North America and the other major market is likely to be the European colonies, areas with a  large  pinky pale population.
The audience generally likes to identify with the heroes portrayed in films, as they similarly like to identify with sportsmen. We like to think that heroes are sort of like us, could even be us at a stretch of the imagination, which is why few kids identify with Wayne Rooney.
I suppose that were the film made in Bollywood the main actors would be South Asian and were it made in Nollywood the main actors would be African. Should I be offended were that the case? I think not.
Apparently Mr. Scott does include some darkish brown characters - as servants and thieves! Since American prisons are choc-a-bloc with darkish brown people and 'black' people continue to clean the toilets of the 'white' folk, then I must assume that Mr. Scott is just reflecting the reality of Equality.

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