DISQUS

patrick · 1 year ago

it would seem that the recipe of a good Indiana Jones film would be 1 part Nazis and 1 part Biblical Artifact... the Soviet army does a pretty good job of replacing the Nazis, but the other ingredient...

Blackfanboy · 1 year ago

I think the Matrix triology is a perfect example of diversity.

If you learned most of your Black history form what they teach in schools. You jump from Slavery to Martin Luther King . Black people didnt exist between those two events.

Now that I think about it the Jones films fall in that range. Let me do some quick math...... Black people will show up in Indiana Jones VI we should have gotten to MLK by then.

Bedlam · 1 year ago

I think comments made recently by Spike Lee concerning the lack of african americans in Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers is valid on this point. Hundreds of blacks particpated in the battle for Iwo Jima but yet he failed to portray any of them in the movie. I think this goes to show that as Blackfanboy put it, black people didn't exist between 1870 and 1954. Spielberg also didn't include them in Saving Private Ryan.

It should bother us all that no one seems to want to acknowledge that the african american culture is basically ignored for the better part of the 20th century. And this has bleed over into Hollywood as well.

riv1 · 1 year ago

You never really watched Raiders, did you? Simon Katanga was the captain of the smuggling vessel, the Bantu Wind. His father was an engineer aboard a Liberian ship, the Golden Sun, where Simon was introduced to the ways of the sea as a cabin steward. He eventually worked his way up to first mate of the Bantu Wind, and took over the ship when the previous captain was mortally wounded in a gunfight during a smuggling run.
In 1936, Katanga agreed to transport Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood—along with their cargo, the Ark of the Covenant, across the Mediterranean. The boat was overtaken and boarded by René Belloq and his Nazi companions, however, and despite Katanga's efforts to intercede, Ravenwood, Jones, and the Ark were taken.

Later that year, Katanga was reunited with Indy at the Panama City jail, where Katanga was being held on rum smuggling charges. Indy arranged for bail and chartered the Bantu Wind for an expedition to the Aleutian Islands, where Indy suspected to find an ancient Chinese temple, predating the Eskimos. At the temple, Katanga and Indy were confronted by a crew of pirates led by Emerelda Vasquez. Emerelda commandeered of the Wind, stole the Chinese treasure and demolished the temple, leaving Indy, Katanga and the ship's crew for dead. Katanga's team was able to sneak aboard and assume control of Emerelda's submarine, and at the end of the naval battle that ensued, Katanga was once again captain of the Bantu Wind.
Don't go to the movies to count the number of black people in them, go to have a good time, guy.

Bedlam · 1 year ago

Katanga was Liberian, not African-American.

Beezy · 1 year ago

Jar Jar Binks was a brother.