January 2012 - Movies
1. Hugo (okay, okay, I watched it night of the 31st of December, 2011, but I’m counting it)
2. Red Tails
3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (can you believe I hadn’t watched it till now?)
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
I think they should edit a special edition that’s like, “Now With Racist Horribleness Deleted!”
Because seriously, WTF.
Also: when I was a kid, there was a pastry shop at the mall called Breakfast At Tiffany’s. All of those eclairs and bear claws and such looked like visions of bliss to me. :)
It surprised me to find out later that Tiffany’s was actually a place that sold overpriced jewelry.
A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other "It takes strength to be gentle and kind."
But
I love Tiffany’s – almost as much as I love bear claws.
Waterfall Nymph harder, better, faster, stronger
There are a lot of movies like that. I would have enjoyed the version of Funny Face without horrendous sexism, for example.
haha!
(about finding out what Tiffany’s actually was)
yeah, the racism was pretty blatant. but then again, that was par for the course for the time period, eh?
in a way, it’s good to have that stay in the movie—it helps us be aware of just how hard won (and relatively recent) our current level of enlightenment is – and how deeply engrained racism was (and in some cases, still is)
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