Fantastic piece by Chris Rock in the Hollywood Reporter on being black in Hollywood: Youre telling me no Mexicans are qualified to do anything at a studio? Really? Nothing but mop up? What are the odds that thats true? The odds are, because people are people, that theres probably a Mexican David Geffen mopping up for somebodys company right now. The odds are that theres probably a Mexican whos that smart whos never going to be given a shot. And its not about being given a shot to greenlight a movie because nobody is going to give you that — youve got to take that. The shot is that a Mexican guy or a black guy is qualified to go and give his opinion about how loud the boings are in Dodgeball or whether its the right shit sound you hear when Jeff Daniels is on the toilet in Dumb and Dumber. Its like, We only let white people do that. This is a system where only white people can chime in on that. There would be a little naivete to sitting around and going, Oh, no black person has ever greenlighted a movie, but those other jobs? Youre kidding me, right? They dont even require education. When youre on the lower levels, theyre just about taste, nothing else. And you dont have to go to Harvard to have taste.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:19:03 +0000
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