02-29-2016, 02:40 PM
(02-29-2016, 02:33 PM)McC Wrote: It's not a black thing or a white thing. It's a green thing. Hollywood is all about the green.
There aren't that many great roles for anybody, regardless of color.
You want to make a great movie, there's a good chance you have to do it outside the mainstream. Has Will Smith ever gone outside the system to make a great movie without a ten mil payday in advance?
Independents are what you do on the way up or the way back down.
This is evidenced by the awful nominees this year.
If black actors REALLY want to get nominated, do what most white actors have to do anyways...make an Oscar bait film.
Play a member of the media/Hollywood who is a protagonist is a way no actual member of the media/Hollywood ever would be against some seemingly impossible or daring situation. Collect awards.
Play a slave/Holocaust victim/person who helps either of those/wear ugly makeup in a shitty terrible movie. Collect awards.
Bust your ass for 20+ years in great roles and build a legacy as an amazing actor who never won an award, do a mediocre indy/artsy flick no one outside the academy and pretentious college sophomores saw. Collect awards.
