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Originally Posted by demonrail666

The beauty with Elmore Leonard is pretty much everyone's portrayed negatively

i've never read him, and i know i should

in the movie though, chili palmer comes across as mr. cool, and every brown person is an asshole as i recall. but that was from my paper on "race" and "representation." ugh, that subject. gets exhausting.

i remember i put get shorty right along with "clear and present danger" where another bolivian (of all nationalities) is the evil anti-jack-ryan. like, literally he wears the same clothes but in red instead of blue. lololol hollywood.

gets worse as you put the movies side by side because the indian-looking bolivian of get shorty is a sweaty dumbfuck and the white bolivian of the fascist thriller is a very smart but morally bankrupt supervillain. "race" gets further encrusted.

and btw, fuck my education. not that it's good to be blind to those things, but when it's the only perspective that gets hammered over & over & over it just makes you bitter and it gets exhausting.

e.g., for years i couldn't laugh at fawlty towers because all i saw was manuel as a negatively portrayed caricature of an oppressed minority, a kind of permanent reminder of trafalgar, ha ha ha ha. which is... somewhat true, but... come on! that's a monomaniacal view--and for that very reason, extremely obtuse.