Trailer: 'The American Society Of Magic Negroes'… So It's Like A Racist Harry Potter?

The folks down at Focus Features (A Comcast Company) dropped the trailer for an upcoming movie today. This is pretty standard, as the movie will be coming out next March 22nd they want people talking about it, generating buzz and all that in the months leading up to release. And if Focus was looking to generate buzz it looks like they're getting what they wanted, because this film is… shall we say provocatively titled. For any who aren't aware the concept of the 'Magical Negro' was first popularized by writer/director Spike Lee in 2001 and describes a Black character, often a janitor or a prisoner or some such, who acts as a sort of moral center to aid the White characters in their journey towards self-realization or to attain some life goal. It's a well-established trope in both literature and film, but it's also a fairly controversial one not least because of that name.

Folks in the movie appear to be tasked with aiding White people based on their current level of 'White Tears', which itself is obviously a fairly charged phrase. -- Ignoring the questionable storyline for right now, having a movie like this and not even choosing a monoracial black person for the lead role is quite literally comical. -- Biracial man risks the fate of magical black people for a white woman.

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https://twitchy.com/coucy/2023/12/15/movie-trailer-n2390869