[Abathar]

They consider Fishburne a demigod in the Matrix films? He got his *ss kicked and had to be saved by Neo. They are digging kind of deep here.

[discostu]

They’re stretching pretty hard, there was nothing magical about Queen Latifah’s character in Bringing Down the House either.

[Shermy]

“They consider Fishburne a demigod in the Matrix films?”

He lost me there.

The “magical negro” in the Matrix movies is a woman, Oracle.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

They consider Fishburne a demigod in the Matrix films? He got his *ss kicked and had to be saved by Neo. They are digging kind of deep here.

Yeah, I always figured him more patterned along the lines of John the Baptist...

And for every "magic negro" example they can come up with, I suspect we could find several counter-examples. George Burns plays God too. Tommy Lee Jones saves Will Smith's backside in MIB....

Mysticism? Nah, how about they are good actors/actresses, the parts suited them, and their agent was able to come to a deal with the producers? Sheesh, lets not read too much into this...