Remember when the black CNA down in Texas hit a white homeless guy? Remember how she "giggled" about hitting a 'white guy' at a party? Well, Stuart Gordon is making this crime into a film now, too. Here's what he says :
"....Suvari plays the panicked driver Brandi, who realizes that if she helps the wounded man, it will ruin her life."
"...the character played by Stephen is a fictional character , a kind of Everyman."
Maybe the film will be better than it sounds. But it sounds as if the emphasis will be on the driver-SHE'LL be the recipient of the script's and hence the audience's sympathy. The victim is reduced to a mere cipher, as if he never really existed-just a "fictional character.
And the racial aspects of the film-Mallard's indifference, GIGGLING about what she'd done, the gang of black "youths" she took to the park to gawk (and jeer?) at the victim-that's all gone. The story apparently is going to be all about the poor, pitiful driver-and she'll be portrayed by a white actress, just to make darn sure the audience doesn't get a chance to speculate at the hidden motives of mallard and her buddies.(The actor playing the "fictional" victim is also white.)
WHY this sympathy in Hollywood for black thugs who inflict torture and death on white victims?????
Source : Rue Morgue again, p9, issue 64 January/February 2007.