Study finds no increase in diversity in popular films in the last decade

[HunterSdVa29]

i'm thinking McTiernan or whomever cast Die Hard and Predator needs some credit, those were both quite diverse films for random 80s action movies
Predator has all the Hispanic extras from that made up country, a native guy, Bill Duke and Weathers, the chick, the actual guy in the Predator suit, etc...

Die Hard had the Asian businessmen, the German terrorist group that included a random Asian henchmen (my dude Al Leong), the black computer hacker guy, then the limo driver, Carl Winslow, FBI agent that dies in the helicopter, etc....

Then you have Bloodsport and Kickboxer (with what, like five white guys total?), Big Trouble in Little China, etc....It's almost like the 80s actually had diversity in roles before it apparently reverted in the 90s and on

 

[djacobox372]

"As far as speaking characters in 2017 went, 70.7% were white. That means only 12.1% were black,"

ONLY???? that percentage almost exactly lines up with their representation in the US. Heck, in LA, where most movies are made, less than 10% of citizens are black.

Also, aren't whites 77% of the US, so they're underrepresented as well.

SJW don't understand math I guess.

 

[kenetics]

The highest paid actor in the history of Hollywood is a giant wrestler black guy.

I'm talking in the past....

 

[s karlyle]

https://mashable.com/2018/07/31/ann...ource=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds#_v6tK_NhSiqL

So I have to wonder here what the desired outcome is. I can certainly agree that equality of opportunity is likely not yet there, but are we expecting and equality of outcomes as well, in what is ostensibly an area of art? In other words, when the study states that there has been stagnancy in, say, male/female ratio in the speaking movie roles over the last decade, is the expectation that the market should be given the ratio of 50/50 irrespective of what makes $ at the box office? That stories that we tell should aim for perfect representation as a goal unto itself irrespective of the story we are trying to tell?

Am I missing something here? The market wants what the market wants, and a storyteller has every right to choose what character setup conveys their story the best. What the fuck is going on?

I mean it is about representation. Also target audience. It's kind of easy to down play the affects of diversity when you are in the majority.
Movies are not just made for the majority they are made for everyone.

 

[tkotom]

I'm talking in the past....

How far back are you going to go? Here and now is what matters.

 

[tkotom]

Payback for the decades of the whiteys playing blacks, hispanics, and asians.

Except Egyptians aren’t black, Hispanic or east Asian. So no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

 

[tramendous]

The Asians yeah I'd agree.

Some whites, such as Italians and Greeks, can make pretty good Arabs.

True. Antonio Banderas made a good Arab in "The 13th Warrior" but he actually has some Arab ancestry. Jake Gyllenhaal though I felt was not a good Persian.

 

[irish_thug]

 

[Soul Crusher]

A white majority country that invented it all makes movies with white actors. Shocking. A majority white country with mostly white actors. Unbelievable.

Diversity would ensure shit movies aren't created? You really think a group of people warped by progressive liberalism, identity politics and with a chip on their shoulder would make awesome movies?

 

[Soul Crusher]

It takes a special person to be involved with hollyweird. You also have to pay a hefty price.

 

[dontsnitch]

A white majority country that invented it all makes movies with Jewish actors. Shocking. A majority white country with mostly Jewish actors. Unbelievable.

Fixed that for you.

 

[tkotom]

Egyptians are white?

Not being black doesn’t make you white. White and black isn’t a real thing. It isn’t a scientific designation. It’s propaganda that morons like yourself suck up.

Egyptians are not black. They never were. Have you been to Egypt? They’re a North African ethnic group. Nothing to do with sub Saharans.

 

[Soul Crusher]

Fixed that for you.

 

[Madmick]

https://mashable.com/2018/07/31/ann...ource=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds#_v6tK_NhSiqL

So I have to wonder here what the desired outcome is. I can certainly agree that equality of opportunity is likely not yet there, but are we expecting and equality of outcomes as well, in what is ostensibly an area of art? In other words, when the study states that there has been stagnancy in, say, male/female ratio in the speaking movie roles over the last decade, is the expectation that the market should be given the ratio of 50/50 irrespective of what makes $ at the box office? That stories that we tell should aim for perfect representation as a goal unto itself irrespective of the story we are trying to tell?

Am I missing something here? The market wants what the market wants, and a storyteller has every right to choose what character setup conveys their story the best. What the fuck is going on?

The "Hollwood Still So White" infographic (you're really convincing me that you're objective researchers with titles for your pie charts like this) shows a remarkably well-balanced representation of our racial demographics. Males are more than two and a half times as likely to have a disability. Why is that? I guess there's an agenda to present men as retards and cripples.

I don't really care about "balance" in representation. If people want to be represented they have to earn it. Why do women make up less than 1% of composers? Is it because the music industry, one of the most politically liberal industries in all of western civilization, is inherently sexist? Or could it be there is something else going on there?

Just look at how they present nudity as an indication of "sexism". The most popular porn for women according to pornhub is female-on-female cunnilingus. Even women don't want to see men naked.

I also don't believe any of the statistics presented to me without transparency of the raw data. The Top 100 grossing films is concrete, but that is a performance-based group. Are the 1100 films drawn from the major 12 studio filmographies, or randomly picked? They were randomly picked. Where might they have gotten most of those other 1,000 other films to round out their "sample"?

For all details of our longitudinal methodology, see
Smith, S.L., Choueiti,
M. & Pieper, K. (2017).
Inequality in 900 Popular Films: Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBT, & Disability from
2007-
2016.


LOL. Okay.

 

[cincymma79]

Make a ww2 movie
Make all the Nazis black
Make all the Russians Latino
Done

 

[PrinceOfPain]

Make a ww2 movie
Make all the Nazis black
Make all the Russians Latino
Done

I would actually love to see the response to that.

 

[AgentOrange24]

Diversity is simply code for "less white people." Even more specifically it mean "less white people, more brown/black people."

For an example: Hollywood has not, nor ever will, care about promoting Asians in their films.

 

[jeffk]

What seems to be popular in porn right now....mormon porn - white. semi-incest look what I did with my step sister or step mother - mostly white.

Most porn searches I do I get a lot of diversity. But I do stay away from transgender porn so I guess I am not for all types of diversity.