Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuIn an alternative America where African-Americans and White Americans have reversed cultural roles, a white factory worker kidnaps a black factory owner for dismissing him over perceived dis... Alles lesenIn an alternative America where African-Americans and White Americans have reversed cultural roles, a white factory worker kidnaps a black factory owner for dismissing him over perceived disdain.In an alternative America where African-Americans and White Americans have reversed cultural roles, a white factory worker kidnaps a black factory owner for dismissing him over perceived disdain.
- Sheriff #1 at Eviction
- (as Lawrence Mandley)
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WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesQuentin Tarantino urged both John Travolta and Kelly Lynch to act in the film. Tarantino's production company, A Band Apart, produced the film.
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[Last lines. Mrs. Pinnock has just refused to accept from Mr. Thomas the money he owed her husband]
Thaddeus Thomas: Why don't you keep it? I can give you some more if you think... if you think it's not enough.
Marsha Pinnock: How much is enough, Mr. Thomas? How much will ever be enough?
[turns, shuts the door and walks away]
Strangely I'd forgotten all about this movie until it was broadcast on BBC1 a couple of nights ago and it's not difficult to understand why it's an obscure flop . The film starts with a black family gathered at the dinner table where patriarch and businessman Thaddues Thomas states his dislike for white people and their problems . Cut to Louis Pinnock who who works for Thomas company and lives in a rough area where his neighbours all seem to be pecker woods . Later due to a series of contrived , not very well written circumstances Pinnock loses his job with the company and decides to kidnap Thomas
The problem with WHITE MANS BURDEN is that this is an alternative world where Black Americans are at the apex of social hierarchy while whites are at the bottom bu this scenario is never ever explored . In fact the only things were shown that things are so mightily different is when someone is flipping the TV channel that show amongst other things a western where all the calvarymen are black . I know this was made in 1995 but is director Desmond Nakano saying there's no white equivalent of Morgan Freeman , Condaleeza Rice or Colin Powell ? For goodness sake we're even shown a black golfer on TV . Is this version of America without a white golfing prodigy called Alpine Woods ?
So that's the main problem and an unforgivable one where we're told that everything is different but as the plot rolls along we find ourselves asking what is actually different ? The audience are shown a couple of black cops being confronted by an angry white mob ( This doesn't happen in " our " America ? ) , a white man with a black companion are threatened by pecker woods ( This doesn't happen in " our " America ? ) etc , etc . At no point is the premise used to explore how anything would be different in " our " America . If you made a film set in " our " America where a disgruntled white employee kidnaps his racist black boss then you would not have to alter one single word never a single scene from this screenplay . And disgruntled employees kidnapping nasty employer type redemption plots we never all that compelling in the first place
- Theo Robertson
- 27. Feb. 2008
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsländer
- Sprache
- Auch bekannt als
- White Man's Burden
- Drehorte
- Southern California, Kalifornien, USA(Location)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 7.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 3.734.870 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 1.743.251 $
- 3. Dez. 1995
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 3.734.870 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 29 Minuten
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.85 : 1