She was always nice to me when we interacted but also seemed very odd. She is an artist(worked in the arts department) so it was nothing abnormal for that department. I worked in the photography department/student relations, taking stock photos for advertising and running the black and white photography lab. So early 2000s. I was in the classrooms all the time taking photos of students.
@@AverageSuperstarTV what you don't need to be a part of a hate club to be racist, white people just casually dropping the n word is racist without them stating they support confederates
Unsurprisingly, this sparked some controversy at the time. Lead man C. Thomas Howell responded by saying the movie is very "innocent", but I think he meant "oblivious"... Despite poor critical reception, the movie went on to make a decent little profit.
Ya if you really think about almost no movie is safe from offending somebody. While I think we should be mindful I just think the world is getting to soft and people need to relax. Nobody is going after Robert Downey for his role in Tropic Thunder. You can go after Zoolander and sea of other flims. Hell even White Chicks. That being said I wouldn't go near a film like this in present day. The point is to make people laugh so why upset people. You won't ever see a film like this ever again.
@@AverageSuperstarTV it’s just black face. You can’t deny that. This movie, while made in a time when it wasn’t, is racist. Also people are absolutely going after Robert Downey for tropic thunder, what are you talking about? It’s not soft to realize when someone’s culture is being appropriated and crudely at that.
@@Sj-cu9wp Just human error the movie was made to laughs. White Chicks is the same thing. Made to make us laugh, either you get the joke or it is not for you and you move on.
@@Sj-cu9wp I agree with what you're saying, but in tropic thunder RDJ was making fun of people who do blackface. He was playing an idiotic white Australian character actor who was dressing in black face to play a black character. He was mocking people like the guy in this movie
My eldest aunt who was my English teacher brought me to movie theatre and this was the movie. :) I was too young as 11 who doesn't know anything between black and white at that time but now (46!) I guess my aunt liked that actor, haha. She is now over 80 and miss her as I live in Sydney and she in New York.
@@Smiggly2574 I looked at it as stupid and harmless. Guess it all depends on the viewer. Same thing as whit chicks or Tropic Thunder, or Zoolander. It's a comedy for laughs not meant to hurt. Most of the world today just likes to cry. I like to laugh.
@@AverageSuperstarTV The over-the-top absurdity in films like Tropic Thunder, Blazing Saddles, and Trading Places is what makes it funny. A piss-poor romantic film is not funny.
yeah ik it wasnt like some jojo chokalingham (mindy kalling brother) stuff - it was supposed to prove that other people dont have life necessarily easier than you think - black americans in this instance. i just wish they went abt it more carefully like RDJ in tropic thunder cos that was made decades later and people understood it ironically against that, but the makeup was poor here. thats really my only criticism 🤷🏾
@AverageSuperstarTV i just watched buckaroo banzai the other day. A true cinematic motion picture masterpiece if i do say so myself... That movie is totally bananas, and a cast of absolute killers.. everyones in that goddamn flick
Slap that movie in theaters today and all the weirdos will be outside protesting. They wouldn't know where to start, but everyone will be offended about something... Something horrible. Oh, it will be a sweet mayhem.
FUNNY STORY. Wayyyy back in high school, something very similar, but not entirely, happened to my friend Vito. Except, he applied for black scholarships on purpose and he was actually awards one when he was white and they did not know. So he banked on it and went to college as himself. Did not do blackface or any of that. At some point, the scholarship found out he was not black and pulled his scholarship money and he sued the pants off them for being race-ist. Long story short, they settled out of court and he got a free ride all the way through grad school.
modern day version: "he couldn't win as a male athlete so he self-identified as a woman and started winning all the medals and beating all the women's records. he didn't have game but she got the win. Girl Power"
Brilliant film but was criticised by the 'anti blackface brigade'. I wonder what they thought of the film White Chicks where the situation is reversed?
Ive seen this movies and it was a 5 out of 10 at best. If you can get past the fact he's doing black face, and it's all to get a scholarship that he's taking from the girl he likes because he's pretending to be black.
I remember this movie, and my take on is this shows how the Aboriginal natives or American Indians are imitated, loved and hated all at the same time. The so called white men won't admit there fascination with the so called black men, only a few will, but this movie proves their fascination. This was 1986 before the term African American was coined 😂🤜🏾🤛🏾🪶🏹🪓🐢❤️👍🏾
Chinese Americans certainly don't get preferential treatment when applying for a college education. If anything, colleges try to restrict the number of Asian Americans who apply for college.
I saw this on video tape in the Eighties it wasn't that bad. Apparently written by the writer and creator of Ellen and The Wonder Years. As the lead actor said it showed the racism black people went through unlike other movies and TV shows with blackface.
People weren't so sensitive and just waiting to be offended with injured feelings.. We were tough back then and if your feelings got hurt you kept your mouth shut or else more then your feelings would be hurt ya dig 😊.. Remember that flick JUST ONE OF THE GUYS. ? Again, another flick that would be BANNED today... Id like to see some woke ass millennials thoughts on that classic 80s gem
Everything about this is perfect. "This is the Cosby decade!"
aged well.
i also love the foreshadowing with the hangman’s noose
"He didn't give up. 😔 He got down 👦🏿"
Like wtf 😂
This is too funny.
hilarous
What no good 😂
id go as far as to say he was a real jive turkey
"From the producer of risky business" no fucking kidding
A touching story of a transracial young man, truly a work of art.
I just laughed out loud.
great movie
I want a remake of this movie. It would be a total hit today.
It wouldn't work....
They can't race-swap the characters
I'd cast Robert Downy Jr. as the lead.
Done by the right director, it actually could do pretty well as an ironic pursuit
@@BryanAgadzi He was hilarious in Tropic Thunder
@@BryanAgadzi This is the best comment section I swear.
"He didn't give up - he got down"
“Right on”
back then every trailer was voiced by that guy with the deep voice. they even got him for B films lol
"In a world...."
"He didn't give up, he got down."
HA!
I have this on DVD, I really want a bluray release of it.
This wasn't a niche little hard to find film either. Channel 11 regularly showed this in Saturdays.
"Loosely based on the life story of Rachel Dolozal"
I worked with that women back in the day. 😂
@@jmonni8 Holy crap! Was she nice to work with?? She started an onlyfans a while ago
She was always nice to me when we interacted but also seemed very odd. She is an artist(worked in the arts department) so it was nothing abnormal for that department. I worked in the photography department/student relations, taking stock photos for advertising and running the black and white photography lab. So early 2000s. I was in the classrooms all the time taking photos of students.
I’m assuming her only fans is not for her paintings? 😂🎉
Holy fucking shit dude
Goodtimes.
@@AverageSuperstarTV its straight up racist
@@jsmashrumble419 No it's a comedy. Nobody making the film belongs to any hate club.
@@AverageSuperstarTV what you don't need to be a part of a hate club to be racist, white people just casually dropping the n word is racist without them stating they support confederates
Unsurprisingly, this sparked some controversy at the time. Lead man C. Thomas Howell responded by saying the movie is very "innocent", but I think he meant "oblivious"... Despite poor critical reception, the movie went on to make a decent little profit.
Ya if you really think about almost no movie is safe from offending somebody. While I think we should be mindful I just think the world is getting to soft and people need to relax. Nobody is going after Robert Downey for his role in Tropic Thunder. You can go after Zoolander and sea of other flims. Hell even White Chicks. That being said I wouldn't go near a film like this in present day. The point is to make people laugh so why upset people. You won't ever see a film like this ever again.
@@AverageSuperstarTV it’s just black face. You can’t deny that. This movie, while made in a time when it wasn’t, is racist. Also people are absolutely going after Robert Downey for tropic thunder, what are you talking about? It’s not soft to realize when someone’s culture is being appropriated and crudely at that.
@@Sj-cu9wp Just human error the movie was made to laughs. White Chicks is the same thing. Made to make us laugh, either you get the joke or it is not for you and you move on.
@@Sj-cu9wp I agree with what you're saying, but in tropic thunder RDJ was making fun of people who do blackface. He was playing an idiotic white Australian character actor who was dressing in black face to play a black character. He was mocking people like the guy in this movie
@@AverageSuperstarTV Can you tell me at what point in history people wore white face to mock the white slaves they had?
My eldest aunt who was my English teacher brought me to movie theatre and this was the movie. :) I was too young as 11 who doesn't know anything between black and white at that time but now (46!) I guess my aunt liked that actor, haha. She is now over 80 and miss her as I live in Sydney and she in New York.
I can’t even lie, this was one of my favorite movies growing up. 😂
CLASSIC
Still amazed they made this film
The 80's was a different time
@@AverageSuperstarTV Even in the 80's this shocked us
@@Smiggly2574 I looked at it as stupid and harmless. Guess it all depends on the viewer. Same thing as whit chicks or Tropic Thunder, or Zoolander. It's a comedy for laughs not meant to hurt. Most of the world today just likes to cry. I like to laugh.
@@AverageSuperstarTV The over-the-top absurdity in films like Tropic Thunder, Blazing Saddles, and Trading Places is what makes it funny. A piss-poor romantic film is not funny.
It's actually still a relevant movie, due to the message at the end of it.
It's is a PRO-black movie, despite what people will try to tell you.
yeah ik it wasnt like some jojo chokalingham (mindy kalling brother) stuff - it was supposed to prove that other people dont have life necessarily easier than you think - black americans in this instance. i just wish they went abt it more carefully like RDJ in tropic thunder cos that was made decades later and people understood it ironically against that, but the makeup was poor here. thats really my only criticism 🤷🏾
and you are very correct it is extremely relevant thats why i wish the production was better, it was the 80s so idk
The fact that Spike Lee hated this movie so much makes me want to watch it even more.
Ha ha Spike needs to stop acting he knows best for us all.
Racist
😅 fr fr
One of those movies that can never be made nowadays... The 80s where the best🎉
Yup 80's was the best era.
@AverageSuperstarTV i just watched buckaroo banzai the other day. A true cinematic motion picture masterpiece if i do say so myself... That movie is totally bananas, and a cast of absolute killers.. everyones in that goddamn flick
@@maxpower001 Never saw and have to check that one out.
Darth Vader's voice, Ron Regan's son, Elaine are in this movie too. Just observation nothing else more.
Well it explains why Elaine never did stuff after lol
Elaine....?
@@jasonbenoit1888 Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a.k.a. Elaine from Seinfeld, was in this movie. You can see her briefly in this trailer at 1:05
I'll take "movies that would never be made today" for 200, Alex. lol
"You really hate the Beach Boys now?"
I like their early funky stuff
What's the Context behind the joke?
10k for Harvard. Wow this movie is old if Harvard is that cheap.
A Movie trailer starring C. Thomas Howell got this much attention. LIFE is mazing! ;)
This is a masterpiece
I think a reboot is in order.
a movie about a white man doing black face? Yeah like that’ll happen in todays time😭
@@nahriahrivera America got soft and you're right.
Master piece exactly! It shows how Evil the WT man really is 🤌🏿
It's Not Masterpiece It's Garbage And It's disgusting
Slap that movie in theaters today and all the weirdos will be outside protesting. They wouldn't know where to start, but everyone will be offended about something... Something horrible. Oh, it will be a sweet mayhem.
Yes and probably would make the box office numbers go through the roof.
FUNNY STORY. Wayyyy back in high school, something very similar, but not entirely, happened to my friend Vito. Except, he applied for black scholarships on purpose and he was actually awards one when he was white and they did not know. So he banked on it and went to college as himself. Did not do blackface or any of that. At some point, the scholarship found out he was not black and pulled his scholarship money and he sued the pants off them for being race-ist. Long story short, they settled out of court and he got a free ride all the way through grad school.
What a story wow
Nobody was harmed or offended during the making of this film. Because we weren't thin skinned in the 80's. And we knew which bathroom to use
Ha ha perfection!
Bullshit. "Silent night deadly night" got pulled from theaters in the 80's because people were so offended.
@@Dagger-Deep That was a pile on for sure.
looking forward to a modern remake
It's called Tropic Thunder
@@phych not even remotely similar
@@phych tropic thunder is great but i want this scenario remade specifically
"Mom, dad, I'm black" 💀💀omg
Classic 80s movie
For sure
Mom..dad..I'm black! You need to put up Breakin and Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo
GOOD ONES! Just might do that.
That movie by Pixar in 2021?? thats the Real "soul" and the only "soul" movie i know of 💯
Pretty much my friend.
I need to dig this movie out and watch it again. I still own it on VHS. Wait... I'll need to buy a VCR! I don't think i have mine anymore. 😅
Good watch for sure.
@@AverageSuperstarTV Totally!
Reddit sent me here. Amazing this was allowed to exist.
Hello fellow redditor
Go back dork
AYO THE WAY MY JAW DROPPED AND MY PARENTS LOOKED AT ME LIKE IM CRAZY AT 0:51 😭😭😭😭
Family night watching UA-cam I dig it.
@@AverageSuperstarTV oop?!-
@@EmotionAftermath What an awesome OOPs
Back when Hollywood had some balls. Now, their trash is unwatchable.
Yup and now it's all snowflakes
2024: No need to be black. You can just be trans.
I love my Generation. ❤
Amazing era ;)
we sure hit the sweet spot
Same! Gen X I presume?
Where is the 2024 remake? 🤦🏻♂️
This movie is even funnier now with all the thin skinned morale police running around!
Directed by Steve Miner. I believe he did House and a couple of the Friday the 13th movies.
Correct the first four Friday The 13th's
Halloween H20 as well.
With the recent Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action, Back then how art imitates life
Truth
Great movie. 👍
This movie was made 36 years ago. Apparently it's been easier for blacks to get an elite education for a very long time.
He didn't give up, but he should have.
🤣
I only paint all of my body black, except my face, to avoid such controversies
"He didn't give up, he got down." Sounds about right for a "black" guy
I was watching this trailer at movie theater, when some yells "fucking prejudiced!" He said it over and over until the trailer ended.
They got the whitest dude they could find to play a black dude 😂
Classic Movie
The noose gets me....
When are we getting part two?
Lets try to score the rights to the flick :)
He didn't give up. He got down! LOL
The biography of Rachel Dolozal's dad
modern day version:
"he couldn't win as a male athlete so he self-identified as a woman and started winning all the medals and beating all the women's records.
he didn't have game but she got the win.
Girl Power"
Just no
The William Thomas story..."Her Penis"
You're roughly describing the plot to Juwanna Mann
That's not a modern day version, Futurama did that with bender 20 years ago
@@DeosPraetorian😂😂 accurate
this is like the star wars prequel trilogy but instead of a new hope it’s the rachel dolezal story
Kamala Harris presidential campaign brought me here.
Harris expires 11/6/24
Did Kamala Harris and her sister write this movie?
I think so.
Goddamn, Pony Boy
Johnny died for this??
I hope someone is working on "Soul Sista: The Rachel Dolezal Story."
“Kareem Abdul *flinches* Ali”
People mad at this film but ok with White Chicks
So this is what it feels like to have been born white, but the man later in life choose to be black! Truly a brave person for coming out.
I just laughed out loud.
Brilliant film but was criticised by the 'anti blackface brigade'. I wonder what they thought of the film White Chicks where the situation is reversed?
“Mom, dad. I'M BLACK!” LOL! This is so dated man no wonder why this movie wouldn’t get made today.
Most 80's movies won't. Don't laugh to hard not like today hollywood is doing any better.
A classic
Trying to find it on DVD
"Based on a true story..."
I have never seen this comedy, even though I was *born in 1983.*
This movie came out 36 years ago. Apparently it's been easier for blacks to get an elite education for a very long time.
Is this the prequel to white chicks?
Classic
Sure is
Ive seen this movies and it was a 5 out of 10 at best. If you can get past the fact he's doing black face, and it's all to get a scholarship that he's taking from the girl he likes because he's pretending to be black.
Is this movie considered black face?
Yes
I remember this movie, and my take on is this shows how the Aboriginal natives or American Indians are imitated, loved and hated all at the same time. The so called white men won't admit there fascination with the so called black men, only a few will, but this movie proves their fascination. This was 1986 before the term African American was coined 😂🤜🏾🤛🏾🪶🏹🪓🐢❤️👍🏾
Hoping to find this VHS one day.
@@AverageSuperstarTVI've had it since it first came to cable, yep good old fashion of being in the era of putting it on vhs.🪶🐢👍🏾
He didn't give up. He got down 🤣
Epic movie
Ponyboy did not stay golden
I was looking for this comment 🤣
I have to watch this 😂
Ha ha good luck finding it but check it out my friend.
This is the funniest shit I've ever seen 🤣🤣🤣
They should do a sequel where he goes Chinese.
I just laughed out loud! Ha
Chinese Americans certainly don't get preferential treatment when applying for a college education. If anything, colleges try to restrict the number of Asian Americans who apply for college.
It looks like Tootsie but if it were racist. I gotta see this shit! 🤣🤣🤣
Good morning, I know you're coming from like a year ago, but it is waaaaaaay under liked! 🤣
They even had a noose !?!
Maybe we should give scholarships to people based on financial need and not color
😂All these kinda movies they won’t make now. Ppl can’t laugh at themselves anymore. 🤦🏽♀️
Godfrey sent me here
Julia Louis-Dreyfus at 1m06s
Good times 😅
And this was BEFORE Jimmy Kimmel, Justin Trudeau, and Ralph Northam did their own stylish versions of black face. Far out, bro.
Yup I guess they get a free pass for that right?
I didn’t know that Jimmy Kimmel did blackface
@@havoren He did on The Man Show
@@havoren And Jimmy Fallon
I saw this on video tape in the Eighties it wasn't that bad. Apparently written by the writer and creator of Ellen and The Wonder Years. As the lead actor said it showed the racism black people went through unlike other movies and TV shows with blackface.
Video tapes was the only way to see this. Don't think it ever made Blu-ray
It’s on dvd
lol @ UA-cam calling this a 2012 comedy in top right.
53k to be a lawyer...deal
Rachel Dolezal based her dissertation on this yeah?
Bet Rachel Dolezal wish she had some of these pills
Hellz yes
When folk could have a laugh
Yup we forgot how to do that these days.
You wouldn't get away with this nowadays. Glad I was able to locate a copy on d v d before the political police ban this totally
Yup I wish I had a copy. I always tell people score DVD and Blu-ray of anything you love. One day it can be gone in a flash.
@@AverageSuperstarTV take a bake, which enforced, it is still available.My friend
People weren't so sensitive and just waiting to be offended with injured feelings.. We were tough back then and if your feelings got hurt you kept your mouth shut or else more then your feelings would be hurt ya dig 😊.. Remember that flick JUST ONE OF THE GUYS. ? Again, another flick that would be BANNED today... Id like to see some woke ass millennials thoughts on that classic 80s gem
Never heard of this movie but I will have to check it out. Great premise.
Bruh
Check out Secret Admire while you're at it. Unless you seen of course.
Rachel dolezal the movie
Tuitionin fees lmao
The things we do because the the costs of college :)