Island in the sun

Old as hell movie from the 50s. If you're interested in film making, I have some advice for you. watch old movies. Ignore today's stuff. I mean, i grew up on a strange mix of old as crap cartoons movies, and of course all the new amazing 90s junk being made and the re-emergence of star wars, now currently living through a SECOND re-emergence of star wars. Which hopefully does well. I don't know. I don't know what's going to be the end result of this whole thing.

But I have an appreciation for classic cinema. They worked MUCH harder back then. It's that simple. Big Sleep. Bogart movies. Swiss family Robinson, loved that shit as a kid. Classic freakin westerns, all the clint eastwood stuff.

Best classic film to me is of course Mary Poppins. It's just everything film making should be. It's just pure joy to watch. And you don't look at Mary as even HUMAN if that makes sense. She's a fairy from another dimension in human flesh.

I liked films like that that bridged over into potential mystical realms of thought. Peter Pan, Star Wars. I guess it's cuz I'm black. When you're black, you have a lot of faith in God and such since maybe that's all you'll ever have in life considering your position against the racially controlled systems in this world. And I connected deeply with religious films, and racially ambiguous characters. What do I mean by that? Characters that appeared white perhaps but were not. I enjoy those characters because they bridge the racial divide, uproot it, make people more than their appearance. Superman is a perfect example. He's an alien, yet people of all colors like him. He's not some kind of white guy badass you see in comics, he's just as much a minority as anyone. And that's why superman CAN'T be racist. He's not white. When you see superman hanging out in africa saving lives. He's actually doing it because he wants to help PEOPLE. He looks at ALL humans the same... believe it or not. When you think about it, Superman embodies America more than you'd really think superficially.

But yeah man, got a lot of thoughts on that, and I mean I'm racially awkward and always have been since I'm a mix of races too. I guess that lead to me liking characters who had such a spirit to them that leaped beyond their flesh that they were not defined at all by their racial make-up.

Does that mean we're in a new brave world where race don't matter and people treat each other as good fellows no matter the looks. Of course not.

I've experienced the bullshit. Especially now going out and driving a lot. White people still assume every black person's a retard or something. I've gotten treated like a complete idiot multiple times by white people who've probably never met a smart black person, I don't know. I was just going to ask some white folks where the goddamn store was so I could find it, they assume I'm asking if they want a taxi ride and give me this 'get the hell away' look. wtf grow up...

But yeah that's when you wake up to the fact that you're the black guy in the room. When the equality isn't there... you're like, oh crap...

Makes me think, would half the black people who bully me have the same balls to do it if I was a white guy. Of course not. It's so strange and yet humorous I guess. The'll take their pants off, take a shit all over my lap and laugh about it, but if there was a white guy around, they'd shut up and kiss his ass for money and food. I mean, it's just wow. Go ahead, do it. Take a shit on a white guy. I'd like to see what would happen, that's for sure. I'd have mad respect for a black guy who loves to bully black guys to go up to a group of white guys and start shit with them, let's see who you really are.

Cowardly black people who only have the guts to take aim at their own kind, so sad that they exist.

So sad that I have to be dead center target for their need to feel dominant over somebody today...

Weird stuff going on in the political world. I mean I hope Crump gets his goddamn ass out of the white house and we can start feeling like someone sane is manning the helm, but like I said, it's a goddamn mountain to climb to get people to look unfavorably on any white person. That whiteness is like this star in mario you get that makes you invincible. It's just it's not easy to beat that... Probably can't beat it... probably can't.... unless you piss off other people with the same star. I think that's the truth about race relations. Nobody can beat white people but other white people... Kinda stupid to think that way, but I think it's actually the way it is in the end.

Getting back to the film I mentioned in the title, that's kinda the point of the movie. I didn't watch all of it but the part I did watch fascinated me. The biracial character in the movie gives a speech to a majority white audience about the race relations on the island and how the politicians are pretending to care about black people and he exposes them for who they really are and they admit that no they could care less about blacks, they only want their votes... how relevant a film this is to today's politics...

But yeah, same stuff was going on back in the 50s. They knew, they always knew, that it's just about votes and stuff. None of them seriously care about brown people and so it's the way life is for me today, and life is for everyone brown and down.

Ya gotta live with the reality of there being social advantages for those in the lighter spectrum, which makes no sense, but that's the reality...

Which in the end is why I gravitated towards stories where your own passion, faith, or mystical quality defined you, not something as insignificant as flesh.