Re-submitted. For Her Pleasure. Originally Dated 8/2007,

Here comes a semi-long post about racial inequality onscreen, inspired by the socially bankrupt box office flop and Who's Your Caddy.  If you don't know, its a familiar fish-out-of-water tale, only the (cat) fish is black culture and the water is western hegemony.   I was going to pretend I saw nothing wrong with the movie (" Loved it loved it loved it. " ) but that kind of satire takes time.  And I ship out tomorrow, baby.  So I'll just respond to a quote from Brian Orndorfe of RottenTomatoes.com. 

Which was quote,  "Wake me when urban films stop using 'get back at whitey' as a comedic device. "

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"First of all" Brian, I don't appreciate your tone.  Secondly, it's less "get back at whitey" and more "attempt to fit in with whitey." 

And thirdly Brian, I don't like your implications.  Substitute "urban films" with "black folks"  and "using get back at whitey as a comedic device" for, "stop talking about racism" and you'll see my point.  Like racial division is no longer socially relevant.  And black people alone perpetuate stereotypes of racial difference. Enter Chris Rock's "there are black people in like five places..."

But what do I know? I'm no hotshotproducer, but movies are expensive.  So what's bankable about a film like Who's Your Caddy?  

[_] Deep down, we're all really the same, etc.

[_] Golf is fun.

[_] Inherent comedy surrounding loud, uncouth blacks attempting to fit into structures of wealth.

[_] Deez Nuts. 

 

Still, maybe I'm overreacting.  In the long-run, what does it really matter if on-screen race relations show the same misbalance of power?  Who cares if Eddie Murphy will do anything for a dollar?  I don't know. Let's ask the screenwriter of Who's Your Caddy screenwriter : Bradley Allenstein.  Yep, the same Bradley Allenstein who wrote 2002 smash Juwanna Mann, that epic story about Jamal Jeffries (Miguel A. Nunez, Jr.), the reigning 'bad boy' of basketball, who is thrown off court for bad behavior and then financially strapped and untrained in anything but basketball, and comes up with a plan so outrageous it just might work: dress up like a woman and try out for the woman's basketball league.* 

Because it's not just a black guy playing basketball.  It's a guy in a dress falling in love. 

 

*paraphrased c/o imdb.com