Antoine Fuqua On Calls For Diversity In Film Criticism: ‘I Try Not To Think About That As Much’
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While Antoine Fuqua may not grasp why there’s a need for more diversity among film critics other actors do. One such actor is Brie Larson who made the following observation,
“What I am saying is that if you make a movie that is a love letter to women of color, there is an insanely low chance a woman of color will have the chance to see your movie and review your movie…We need to be conscious of our bias and make sure that everyone is in the room.”
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As a woman of color and of the #AfricanDiaspora I think that this need for diversity among film critics is a much bigger issue than most people understand. As one example, the way women of color are portrayed in movies is usually a caricature of what people of other races deem to be a woman of color and is not authentic. Yet this version of women of color, however false, is what we continue to see in movies. Until we have criticism of these caricatures as part of the film plot there will be no changes to this lazy form of screenwriting.
