White Chicks - Politically Incorrect?

Sony ^ | 6/24/04 | Sony

[Martyboy1]

After messing up a major drug bust in New York City, two African American FBI agents (who are also brothers), Marcus and Kevin Copeland (Shawn and Marlon Wayans), try to impress their boss by volunteering to protect the Wilton Sisters, Tiffany (Dudek) and Brittany (Ward), the heiresses of a hotel empire, from a kidnapping scheme during a short trip from JFK to the Hamptons. Deciding to change the strategy drastically, the brothers use themselves as bait, wearing lots of pale makeup and dresses to pass as the Wilton sisters, while the real sisters are hidden away, safe from harm. Now, the agents just have to convince the world (including their coworkers who are now protecting *them* and the Wiltons' friends and family) that they're actually young, rich, white heiresses.

[Martyboy1]

Pardon me, but isn't 'white face' a little over the top? Imagine 2 white guys with 'black face' playing the role of 'black chicks' in a movie...would there not be some sort of uproar? This movie is a little too much. Classic double standard.

[xm177e2]

"Blackface" has a history of bigotry. "Whiteface" is just turning that on its head. Yes, there are two separate standards, because there are two separate histories.

[Keith in Iowa]

Exactly. If the situation were reversed, the NAAlCP would be screaming bloody murder. And, it's a stupid idea for a movie. Proof to me that Hollywood's creativity has gone 'round the bowl, and out the hole years ago.

[leadpenny]

Bring back Al Jolson.

[xm177e2]

And not only that, but from what I gather, most of the jokes come from the two being completely different from stereotypical "white chicks." Blackface was pretty much always about expressing stereotypes about black people.

[ovrtaxt]

A movie about two black guys who dress up as fat, toothless redneck trailer park gals would have been much better.

Or whiny Jewish girls.

Or headscarf wearing Palestinian chicks with black eyes, fat lips and suicide belts.

Or female Abu Graib prison guards with dog leashes.

Or ultra leftist ivory-tower type college girls who hang around at anti World Trade Organization protests.

Or 80 year old post-menopausal Palm Beach County voters.

[Stentor]

Yes, there are two separate standards, because there are two separate histories.

Yep. It's history. Time to get over it.

[Arpege92]

I'm a white chick and I don't take offense to this at all. I used to watch the Wayan's on that television show "In Living Color" and they made fun of everyone...whites, blacks, and so on.

BTW....there was a movie made back in the early eighties about a white guy posing as a black guy in order to get a free scholarship to college. He wore black make-up on his face....the movie was horrible though.

[sneakers]

I'm a 'white chick' too and I think the movie looks pretty funny. I was planning on seeing it. (At home-on DVD) Let's keep our sense of humor guys. :-)

[OpusatFR]

It's a farce and funny at that..

The Clinton years and all the lefty brainwashing has caused people to lose their sense of humor. Look back at the movies of the 70's like Love at First Bite, or other comedies, totally politically incorrect and very funny.

[SouthernFreebird]

I'm a white chick and I plan on seeing the movie.
Looks good to me.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I used to watch the Wayan's on that television show "In Living Color"

Shawn and Marlon weren't the funny ones. Never have been. (Damon and Keenan Ivory were.)

One of the things that made In Living Color popular (and now to a lesser extent The Chapelle Show) is that they are "allowed" to make fun of black stereotypes in ways that whites would be castigated for in this PC world.

(Interesting that on In Living Color they also made fun of gays and the handicapped. So I guess, at least at that time, that "black" trumped everything.)

[longtermmemmory]

booooooring.

potty gross slimmy humor

next

[mhking]

Or as I put it in one word: "Why?"

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[ruiner]

You have to be kidding.

[12B]

For those who remember it. Sorry about the French poster.

[Rebelbase]

Glad you found that poster. I don't remember any NAACP outcry over that flick. Maybe because it was such a loser film. Had it been successful we may have heard some noise.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I don't remember any NAACP outcry over that flick.

Maybe not the NAACP, but Spike Lee had plenty of unkind words for that film and for Rae Dawn Chong for her participation in it.

[Rebelbase]

LOL, Spike Lee is a mouth without a brain!

[Arpege92]

"Shawn and Marlon weren't the funny ones. Never have been."

Perhaps they aren't funny to you, but you can't be so bold as to speak for everyone else. I find Shawn and Marlon to be very funny.

As far as making fun of black stereotypes....whites have been known to join in on this. All in the Family comes to mind. I remember one episode where Archie Bunker had dressed up as a black guy.

Why are you even keeping score on this issue? People need to learn how to lighten up and laugh at themselves. We tend to take ourselves too seriously sometimes.