| re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 07:38 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 07:34 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel? - ntjvy 06:46 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
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| All great points. One thing I do wanna throw in is that, in my understanding, to say "blackness isn't about pigmentation" is very odd because it both then assumes that a black heritage has specific (and limited) cultural or world-view characteristics that come with it, and also seems to be something one can say from a place of the privilege of not living with identifiably black or even dark skin where the people around you categorize and/or judge based first on what they see. (i.e. light skin or white-passing privilege) I'm curious about this idea, because looking at it as a at least semi-"woke" white millennial (on the old side of "millennial"), I understand that race as it divides us is a construct, but skin color is not ... and skin color is what humans use to ignorant construct and define the differences they see that allow them to push others down so they can rise up and justify their cruelty for their own gain. And colorism WITHIN a race is so laced into what is poignant about OOTI rather than another tale of rich white vs poor black, it seems odd to complicate that by saying a character who is black with european mix is actually appearing white (even though all the others in his family and friends are that too but appear black). Also if you really dive into the idea that this group are all telling the story to the little girl, and therefor all know the story... to go with the new concept that they aren't all a small island village but also relief workers, then you must question why these relief workers know this story, and whether they're acting out or the audience is seeing the little girl's imagination of it play out (through the scenes of the Story of TiMoune) while the villagers tell it, you must consider that this little black child is imagining Daniel, the love-at-first-sight prince as the only white person around her. I think that also has implications that are problematic and confusing. I know it seems like I'm reading too much into it but I don't think so... and I have to assume/hope that Arden did the same about of thinking through this concept, I just think on some levels (which exist whether one sees or considers them or not) creates problems that weren't problems originally. |
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