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Emperor Harkonnen

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ordos45

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and also the Brit is always the bad guy in american movies >:(

Hey, we're big fans of Ian Flemmings, "James Bond". And look at movies where the British are the "Bad Guys"...take The Patriot for example, there are a good many British officers who show regret and pain at the fighting. I think the Cornwallis character even says at one point not to be happy for this victory (in one victory), for they are fighting their former bretheren, and that those they fight are British citizens as well.

The Batman movies, Alfred our friendly Butler, former member of MI-6 or the SAS, something like that, isn't a bad guy.

The X-Files movie. The source that told Mulder what he needed and was then killed was British. He was a reluctant member of the Project with the aliens to begin with, so he wasn't a "bad guy". They even go out of their way to make the character seem more filled with compassion with his grandson breaking a leg.

Editted to add X-Files.

Andrew

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I think it is probably similiar to Affirmative Action.(found in link) http://www.dune2k.com/forum/?board=34;action=display;threadid=10830

I remember hearing on tv how the Toronto Blue Jays (baseball) was called the whitest team in major league baseball. Of course you dont hear people complaining about the blackest, or most minority baseball team in MLB. So basicly if you don't want to get in trouble from interest groups and such, hire a minority.

Acriku

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I said probably, because I haven't seen every damned american movie. And for the ones I have seen, I don't go looking at it and point out - "Oh the first black guy! Rock on!"

Andrew

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Well do you mean actors or people who work on movies also? Do you also mean supporting actors and not black actors in the backround that have no lines?

A clockwork Orange by stanley Kubric. I dont remember that movie haveing any black people, but I'm not sure if it was an american film or not. (actors had English/Brittish accent)

also FHDune didnt have any black characters, but that was filmed in Prague.

ordos45

ordos45

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I think the movie Prince of Darkness didn't have any...but yeah, there's probably some equal rights law. (Personally, my fav actor is Morgan Freeman.)

Vanguard3000

Vanguard3000

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I don't know for sure, but there are laws stating that if you have a company with so many employees, you have to have a certain munber of women and/or minorities. Personally, I disagree with this, because it's (ironically enough) racial discrimination.

With movies though, I doubt it. It's quite possible, though.

Emperor Harkonnen

Emperor Harkonnen

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I mean that there just has to be a black person who doesn't have to have any lines. In road to predition there is only one black guy controling the lift in a building nothing more.

in FHD there are arabic people so there is one minority. In Schindler's List though there are none, but such historical movies don't need to have black people in them I think

Cyborg

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and also the Brit is always the bad guy in american movies >:(

Yeah.

Unless it's only small crime, the bad guys are rarely americans :(

That is unless the bad gues are the cool guys. Then they are Americans :P

Example:

Die hard movies

Navaros

Navaros

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I think the movie Prince of Darkness didn't have any

there is not at least one black person in every American movie. that's one of the stupidest things i ever heard. almost as stupid as the post here by Ordos45. Prince of Darkness had a very large, chubby black man as one of the most prominent human-turned-demon in the whole movie. he even had his own scene where he was singing Amazing Grace.

movies with no black people: i could be wrong here, but off the top of my head I'd say that there is not one black person in Braveheart, The Godfather, The Thing, Reservoir Dogs (they mention a black girl, but she is never shown on camera, nor is any other black person) and probably a whole whackload of other American movies that I can't think of right now off the top of my head. I will edit this post to include other American movies with no black people as they come to mind.

Terror

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there is not at least one black person in every American movie. that's one of the stupidest things i ever heard. almost as stupid as the post here by Ordos45. Prince of Darkness had a very large, chubby black man as one of the most prominent human-turned-demon in the whole movie. he even had his own scene where he was singing Amazing Grace.

movies with no black people: i could be wrong here, but off the top of my head I'd say that there is not one black person in Braveheart, The Godfather, The Thing, Reservoir Dogs (they mention a black girl, but she is never shown on camera, nor is any other black person) and probably a whole whackload of other American movies that I can't think of right now off the top of my head. I will edit this post to include other American movies with no black people as they come to mind.

simple smartass, Braveheart was set in the 12th century in scotland, there were no black people at that moment over there. It would only be fake. But in a movie about the US i can imagine that there must be black people in it, as they too are a part of US civilazation from the beginning

Digital Guerrilla

Digital Guerrilla

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Navaros if you mean John Carpenter's "The Thing" then you are mistaken one of the characters is an African-American as a matter of fact he later bacame the voice for "Spawn" on the animated series version.

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