>In the cinema of the United States, the Magical Black is a supporting stock character who comes to the aid of white protagonists in a film. Magical Black characters, who often possess special insight or mystical powers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Black
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Easily one of the most abused proto-woke tropes of the 90s and 00s. I have seen so many I don't even have an example. Morgan Freeman as literally God, I suppose. But old black women are way more common
Morgan Freeman is the ultimate magical Black. Also an early redhead to Black person race swap
Not my favorite, but he's up there.
Why did they call him red in the movie?
>Why did they call him red in the movie?
he was a white redhead in the book
I know, that's why I specified the movie.
Crothers also plays a magical Black in the twilight zone movie
>why did they call him red in the movie
because he's irish
Reference to Sanford & Sons
His name is Ellis Redding, it's on his parole file.
I don't know he was the novel IT until I listened to the audiobook. Way back he as was in the black spot when it burnt down. Cameos
>Black person race swap
can we agree that this is fine if it's an actual actor with skill and talent?
All the current day Black person swaps are no-name bland generic actors with all the talent and appeal of an empty paint can.
No we can't homosexual
here is an anon of limited intellectual capacity.
No, not unless its alternate universe shit, where even some black characters, are beanwashed, or ricewashed too, or if it's in a setting where it's not moronic, (so that excludes medieval europe, and fantasy setting based on medieval europe), like in Shawshank, and speaking of which, it's also better if it's done out of pure vampiric capitalism, using name recognition/star power like with Morgan Freeman in that movie, and not for a progressive political agenda, where it's done to have a diverse cast, and diversity is treated as an objective good, and a lack of diversity as an objective bad.
>not unless
yeah, your whole "not unless" spiel is what I'm talking about you homosexual
so we agree
No you fricking mongoloid, your moronic broad ass standard, leaves room where a black guy be King Arthur, as long he's a good actor, no amount of good acting/charisma can make that casting non-cancerous.
what about in the future when everyone is some shade of brown? do we just not make king Arthur movies?
why the frick are you worrying about what movies people will make in the future?
if you have no answer then just say so
That wasn't me, my response is this
fine. we'll have a race war before it gets to that point, send all the darkies home, just so we can keep making King Arthur movies. happy?
From what I've heard (and before you say it, not from /misc/), the beig/brown future is a meme, and that's not how genetics works, but yeah, hopefully in the future we'd start making new stories again.
I think it's reasonable to say that historical figures shouldn't be race swapped.
But some fictional character like Red or Bond doesn't really matter. As long as it's not done for virtue signalling or diversity bullshit (but good luck with that in the current year)
No we cannot agree on that, crypto-israelite
Nnnnnnoooope. Frick off.
If it's not a historical figure and if there's not an obvious pattern (i.e. redhead women always becoming black) I don't have a problem with it. e.g. I would have no problem with an Indian James Bond or black Batman.
>historical figure
yeah that makes sense.
I have no problem swapping Red from Shawshank, because it's just a dumb short story by Steven King. it's just not that important.
Plus it wasn't done because of moronic ideological reasons.
>Shaken, not stirred... and do you happen to have any cow shit, sirs?
HE IS FRICKING EVERYWHERE
Him as the butler in batman is another example.
Truly the king of magical Black folks.
butler? homie that’s lucius fox
>tfw watched Freeman kino last night
>tfw he wasn't magical Black
Actually in a way he sort of was despite starting out as a criminal.
Ever see Nurse Betty? Freeman and Rock are hitmen pursuing Zellweger who doesn't know she has a trunk full of drugs.
I haven't but I might have to check it out now.
Shawshank is this in reverse; Andy is the magical whitey who teaches Red to hope and overcome his problems
He also fricked his granddaughter. Black folk love incest and pedophilia, they don't even consider it taboo it's so common for them.
>We are the center of the universe
- New Steven Spielberg directed Madea movie
Papa Midnite in Constantine
For me, Djimon is forgiven for any race swaps or otherwise woke shit he happens to be in. He just seems like a cool guy, and I enjoy seeing him in anything.
Because he's a genuinely good actor with screen presence. Something most black actors being shoved in our faces nowadays severely lack.
He should've been blade in the reboot.
racist turd
>racist turd
Go tell Spike Lee moron. He popularised the term
Hollywood is racist, we''ll make a white savior thread later, I'm inbetween Jody Foster in the King and I and Sandra Bullock in the blindside for my favourite
Racist against whites, sure.
And here is one of the non-magical variety.
How'd they find so many Hugo Weaving lookalikes?
Casting director was a magical Black.
lawdy lawdy dem agents everywhere
OHH LAWD DEM WHITE MENS IS ERRR WHUR
That scene where he explains the Shining to Danny is my favorite moment in any movie
Hell yes.
Damn good choice, I got a shiver in my spine thinking about it.
Also fulfills Black Guy Dies First when the movie is already 90% over kek
Black guys literally almost NEVER die first. The black guy in the Shining is one of the few I can think of.
Mace Dindu
Dindu nuffin'
but yoda is the magical Black of star wars
I don't think he counts since Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Anakin are magical white dudes, plus Yoda as magical green dude.
just tap it in. They even had a force ghost of him
only one i can think of is guinan from TNG
What was her deal? I haven't seen all of TNG but I remember her being able to stand up to Q.
Black girl magic
how the frick does a scene like this get greenlit?
>ok, so this character is going to be doing a light jog through space, then like... uhhh. she'll get pulled pulled forward and leave after images of herself
someone looked at this and said "yeah that's good"
It was good enough for Larry Fink. It's good enough for us. Shut your mouth and consume.
It's just a job. You have a budget and timelines so you try to make something cheap and fast. You don't really care about the quality because you're getting paid to just make it, not the royalties that come with quality work.
i want to give it the benefit of the doubt given the scene they did with troi of her floating through space in her mind, but that was in the 90s, people were moronic.
maybe this is an homage to it, in which case, bravo.
They should've space impregnated her more often, and space yoga too
WTF? It can't be true
GOLDEN EXPERIENCE: REQUIEM
if i remember right, she's the last of some special snowflake race and is super old
not sure if they butchered her backstory in picard, but in TNG, she was from a race of long lived people who "listen". her civilization was attacked and destroyed by the borg and scattered her people around the galaxy. picard saved her life when the enterprise crew went back to the 1800s gold rush era of san fransisco where she was hanging out with mark twain.
God, I don't care what people say, TOS was the least moronic Star Trek series.
>PUT US IN MOVIES!
>NO NOT LIKE THAT!
That's such a boomer liberal comic it's hilarious. You know the older libs like Bill Maher that don't like woke shit but still push it because it's their team's mandate
Prophetic
You can blame /jazz/ for that. We really pissed off someone at WotC the last two seasons.
I swear to fricking God, if I hear one more fricking word about John Lewis and his fricking homosexualy march...
This was my favourite character from Watchmen (2008)
Stevie Wonder. Such a gent. I love you Stevie.
Honorable mention for The Guardian from Samurai Jack
The mortuary worker in Final Destination movies
MAMA ABIGAILLLLLLLL from The Stand
Black people really are constantly on the lookout for the slightest provocation to b***h, aren’t they?
Why is magical Black a bad thing? I understand that it would be better if we didn't movie roles into racial stereotypes. But is it really a bad thing to be portrayed as a wise and benevolent sage?
it isn't, Black folk just always complain about everything and liberals tell them their b***hing is always valid
Will Smith in Bagger Vance was ridiculed even the moment it came out for being heavy handed racial bullshit
The Green Mile I think is where the only time the "Magical Black" was done right because it is extremely important that he is black
why is this rayciss? everyone loves those characters
My best friend
>It was all a dream, i used to read Hogwarts magazine
Underrated
hardest I've laughed all day
>has two lines in the entire series
>"black could be anywhere" and "it's one of the world's darkest omens"
What the frick did Cuaron mean by this?
>tfw your dad goes to sugarplums for some fizzing whizbees and never comes back
Not ganna lie I saw the trilogy several times and didn't notice they switched actresses for the Oracle after the first one died. I really think they look similar.
The old lady in The Matrix. So magical she turned herself into a different old black lady in the following movie.
Candyman but in Final destination.
It's not even limited to purely Cinemaphile stuff either
The prescient black woman from Jeepers Creepers
Cuba Gooding Jr in What dreams may come
this use to be a well liked meme, but now its insufferable
Basically no matter what way you write "minorities" there will be a Trope™ for how racist or sexist it is.
I mean I try my best to not join the racist hivemind but if the western world is predominantly white protagonists are naturally gonna be mostly white so isn't it a good thing that minority groups can play non-villainous secondary roles? The fact that's it's such an identifiable pattern is basically a testament that said minority group isn't being excluded
I can't believe this is a thing, yet it DOES need to be
Mother Abigail from The Stand.
Same
she looks llike she has some timely, homespun wisdom just when the hero needs it. Probably as he is about to give up she will make him realize he just needs to keep going..
She is literally a magic person and a mecca for all the white people who survived the pandemic. They keep dreaming of her and travel across the country to her house in a cornfield.
Uncle Ruckus
>absolutely based in his devastation of black people in general
The Legend of Bagger Vance is Magical Black: The Movie. Movie takes place in the Jim Crow South, Will Smith exists to teach Matt Damon how to be a better golfer by getting his shit together.
he looks like the most magicalest Black of all the Black folks
He is mystic being. He arrived in Matt Damon's life in his greatest hour of need and abruptly disappears when everything is going right. The story revolves around golf.
robert redford must've had a stroke when he came up with this.
They want filmmakers to make Black folk stupid and violent like in real life?
Happens in kids animated film Sherlock Gnomes
Also happens in kids animated film Wreck it Ralph 2
The accepted view on magical Black is the absolute most CURRENT YEAR thing if you think about:
>white film makers getting shit out and shit on and shit on for not including important black characters
>white people being gaslit to feel they have no culture, no heritage, no country
>I got it! Let's add a black character that's so important to the story, s/he's literally magical and embodies the spirit and essence of the land's history itself!
>You are now racist for othering this black character.
It's that flowchart about white people are racist for noticing/not noticing race, moving in/moving out of a neighborhood, etc.
TheOracle can’t be beat.
the one in the stand. abigale. i would eat some of her tasty breads
she was unreasonably sexy
I know he's not actually black
>Magical Black
Burn in HELL you fricking neonazi, this is not the 1930's anymore!!!
In the new amazon slop totally killer her Black person friend is a genius that invents a time machine
dem quarks n shiieeet
A huge plothole in this movie is that a black girl creates a time machine and noone seems to give a frick.
How did nobody mention Tia Dalma?
we were waiting for you anon
Bedazzled
The Family Man
Idris Elba, 3000 years of longing.
Literally a magic (Djinni) Black whose role in life is to use his magic to help white people with their first world problems
That one movie with will smith where he is literally a magic black guy who solves all the white peoples problems. By the end of the movie he goes back to heaven.
Magical Black trope is fine the trope I hate is rebellious asian girl with purple hair coloring.
I'd never heard this term until Key an Peale.
smoke a bowl, crank one out to ghetto gaggers, and by the time you finish I guarantee you will be right as rain
i just noticed she looks like marco pierre white
I think it's actually pretty cool how they took this meme to its ultimate conclusion by having the magical Black reveal that society and reality itself is a big meme.
i say he counts
>Americans worship Black folk
>Somehow this is bad
It was always about power and humiliation