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Bad Company (2002)
The description for this film reads, “...a streetwise punk is recruited by a CIA agent to stop an arms deal from going bad.”
Anyone want to guess which one is the CIA agent and which one is the “streetwise punk”?
@Pat idk. i tend to think it's less that Hollywood producers and executives, as a class, are racist, but more that they're cynical and think the public at large holds racialized stereotypes about people, so they play to those to make money.
I’m not sure of their motives. It’s probably a mixture of motives and varies based on the specific filmmakers.
Another, more generalized motive is that the wealthy and powerful (who finance movies) want to promote racial tension in society to try to keep the people fighting among themselves rather than allying together to oppose the injustices perpetrated by the wealthy against society. (So that the wealthy can maintain their privileged status.)
