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One of my kids is rewatching Malcom in the Middle, and it wasn’t until the third season or so that I realized how diverse it really was. All of Hal’s friends are black dudes and aside from a joke or two about it, it’s never mentioned
They even made fun of Lois for having an SJW moment because she was sperging over an advertisement that had a Black janny selling malt liquor.
Even "owning the bigots" was tastefully done there too. If we had a racist grandma like theirs, we would troll her with Black friends too.Malcolm in The Middle always was truly unique when it comes to portraying people of different races and backgrounds. We got Hal's friends, who are educated black dudes with good jobs, Stevie who is a black disabled kid, and yet he did't let his disability hold him back, and not to mention this scene.
"You white boys are the same, i got dark skin so i must dance with the birds and listen to the spirit of the wind? i got news for you, i work for a living, i'm baptized and i'm proud of it!"
It's like Malcolm in the Middle treated non-whites as you know... people.
And that’s precisely why I didn’t even notice. Even watching it when it aired, I never thought “wow, it’s so diverse and ahead of its time”It's like Malcolm in the Middle treated non-whites as you know... people.
Holes - A subplot in the past has a romance between a black man and a white woman. The black man named Sam is killed by the towns folk and the white woman Kate becomes a criminal after he is killed. After Sam is killed it stops raining at Camp Green Lake for 100 years.
Indeed, fantastic film.Menace II Society - two 21 year-old black/Armenian brothers who didn't even finish high school, let alone go to film school, managed to make one of the best movies of the 1990s. No bullshit moralizing, just a really downbeat movie that doesn't pull any punches.
I watched Extreme Prejudice for the first time recently and appreciated the diversity and the "nigger-faggot" scene, lol.Also basically every Walter Hill movie - you always get a diverse cast of criminals, crooked-cops, ruthless military guys, mercenaries, etc. but it's never patronizing and they all are constantly throwing around slurs at each other.\
The Silence of The Lambs did a lot to portray the reasoning as to why being a transgender, or trans person, is not something that should you make you special. Plus, it didn’t have to do the 41% joke that has become famous on the Internet — it showed a wild fascination as to why both serial killers and cannibals are who they are.
It was all but stated he was a veteran of the Vietnam war, or something around the time am I correct on that?The titular Gargoyles are from Scotland, and one of them (Lexington IIRC) is confirmedly gay. They were brought over to Manhattan by not-quite-so-evil mastermind David Xanatos, a guy of Greek descent. Their main ally Elisa Maza is half-Latina, half-Black. Her mother is even a legit African immigrant.
Minor characters also tended to be fairly diverse with only the occasional mention of their racial background. One that always struck me well was the blind war vet who became a celebrated author and later taught Hudson how to read via Braille books. The guy was black, and that's it.
And there's quite a number of episodes delving with diverse cultures as well. For instance, they dealt with the tale of the Jewish Golem in the Czech Republic, a kid who could turn into motherfucking Cu Chulainn in Ireland, a native guy in the US-Canada border who was in doubt about the true value of his native heritage in the face of modern science, a former villain who went into the Australian desert seeking for redemption in the Aboriginal Dreamtime, so on and so forth. None of them bashed you over the head about inclusion or whatnot. It did have some incisive, lesson-to-be-learned shit here and there, but those were treated with actual care and came off as decent lessons as well. Read a book, don't play with guns, preserve nature, etc.
To be fair, he wouldn't have been as trans was understood at the time. The doctors easily picked up that he wasn't distressed by his gender or sexuality in any significant manner but that he was a miserable nut case in general. Trans was just "the answer" he managed to stumble in first and got obsessed to point that nothing could convince him otherwise.There was the awkward disclaimer that Buffalo Bill was not actually trans, but oh well.
the desire for transitioning was clearly just a cope for something else. Clarice was better off looking how an obsessive mind works, not gender identity issues as they were understood back then.
Exactly.It was all but stated he was a veteran of the Vietnam war, or something around the time am I correct on that?