| re: ugh... Des McAnuff...why? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 02:54 pm EDT 06/23/18 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:47 pm EDT 06/23/18 | |
| In reply to: re: ugh... Des McAnuff...why? - broadwaybacker 02:36 pm EDT 06/23/18 | |
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| I think you're really reading today's climate backwards. I think for anyone who cares looking at this, it is much more problematic to hire a white director to tell a very black story about black people and starring black people simply because there is no black director with similarly recognizable credits or successes to beat the white director for the job. If you think for a second that they didn't feel more comfortable hiring Des because they have a black writer to write the book, you're mistaken. In today's climate, to suggest that if I can't think of a black director big enough to do the job then there isn't one, which just perpetuates the fact that there isn't one (other than George C. Wolfe who I'm assuming isn't interested anyway) is backwards. Today the move is to create opportunities so that at the very least POC get the opportunity to tell the stories of POC, let alone ones not specifically related to race - and that includes the director, and that should include a bio musical about a famous black Motown group. Ain't Too Proud sells itself. They could absolutely have hired a black director and made a "hot" director for hire out of them by giving them a chance with this probable hit. But instead they hired a super successful white guy to tell this black story, who has as many failures or artistic disasters as he does hits or acclaim. I think that's the kind of thing "today's climate" is hoping to change and make less acceptable and common. |
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