Anyway, if the new Harry Potter movie that is set in NEW YORK IN THE 1920s doesn’t have any black people in it (like the trailer suggests) I am legit going to throw my Harry Potter books in the trash and never look back.
I don’t care whose fault it is. The casting directors, the producers, j.k. herself. I don’t care. That level of disrespect, historical revisionism via white supremacist fantasy is not to be tolerated.
The Jazz Age.
With no black people.
The JAZZ AGE.
Do they have ANY idea how creepy it is that every single fantasy is a world without brown people?
That every magical wondrous place they can imagine, a dominant feature is that we have been scrubbed from every corner?
And where did we go? We’re we driven out? Did they kill us all? When one type of person is overwhelmingly missing there is always a reason.
And what reason will small children of color make up in their heads to answer such a question?
What little cloud will enter their mental sky?
@oneknightincamelot I promise I’m not dragging you, but I’m actually not talking about leads, I’m talking about environmental black people. Like black people in the background of that world.
This is what Harlem looked like in the 1920s.
This is what harlem was portrayed as in Fantastic Beasts
And I specifically looked for scenes with concentrated groups of background people.
Its not the starring cast that was “whitewashed” its the ENTIRE ENVIRONMENT that was historically revised. Which is a much more dangerous lie.
Also, this is specific to black people. While I am constantly hungry for more Asian representation and am happy anywhere I see it, Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance was a specifically an area and era infused with black people and black art.
Anyway even The Great Gatsby did a better job of quickly portraying our importance and style in the Jazz era, and it wasnt even a movie about black people– it was specifically about rich white people.
Honestly between this and the trash JK created based on Native American culture without actually talking with Native Americans to make sure it wasn’t offensive that will be used in the movie, I have zero interest in seeing it. It’s too white, too misinformed, and they’re putting fucking Johnny Depp, a known abuser in it. I have zero interest in supporting any of that.
That and Eddie seems to be portraying a Hufflepuff stereotype that looks as well written as Bella Swan from Twilight. It’s one thing when it was kids acting, but this guy has been nominated for a million awards and the trailers are just gross.
I prefer what fans wrote for an idea, that Newt is a black man coming to america, faces the shit show of racism compared to England, and goes on amazing adventures. THAT I’d watch.
Newt in a historically accurate Harlem would have approached some of the depth of the original series, because that would provide the opportunities to explore deeper issues of who we consider human and what rights that entails. It would also depict a world that one group creates and calls home, with one group visiting– sometimes for entertainment, sometimes for gain, sometimes for violence– which could describe 1920s Harlem or the fictional wizarding community in Harry Potter. It would look less like a lazy cash grab at any rate.
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What the fuck, that’s supposed to be fucking HARLEM?????
Forget not doing research, I’m convinced they did negative research. As in they Obliviated any and all memory of historical reference from their minds.
Holy shit. I didn’t want to see this movie and now I’m actively angry about it. Harlem in the 20s WAS blackness. It just… like…
FUCK JK Rowling, fuck the people who made this movie, and fuck every person in it. Honestly just fuck Hollywood in general. You are going BACKWARDS in representation, just like our fucking government.
Stuff like this is why people are convinced that every past era in the Western World was all white. Media. Colonial times, Medieval times, the Old West, World Wars I and III, the ‘50s… all of it presented as all white eras in popular fiction, and people are more than happy to accept it that way.
One can argue that an American suburb in the ‘50s really was all white (hell plenty of them still are), but Harlem in the ‘20s? It’s honestly seriously damaging and inexcusable.
The only Fantastic Beasts post that matters….
my grandparents lived in Harlem, at that time.
my mother was born and grew up there.
i couldnt even, in the late 90′s/early 00′s get my white friends to GO there for ANY reason.
why are they gentrifying Harlem’s past ????
erasure. thats why. it doesnt matter what we feel like now , to white supremacy, what matters is future kids and folks will have to do digging to find out the TRUTH. otherwise, they’ll believe its white.
movies have lasting white washing legacy’s, a good example is : Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor.
one of the funniest things about harry potter is how jkr accidentally made harry incredibly bisexual. she forgot that the average straight teenager does not have an inner monologue about how attractive his opponents, friends, and godparents are. and thus we were blessed with bi harry.
This is honestly one of my favorite things about the books
The Harry Potter epilogue takes place in 2017, which means not only have those kids already seen Pacific Rim, but they have been subjected to Pacific Rim 2.
this is probably what “all was well” was referring to.
It has always struck me as odd that, in Harry’s third year, Professor Lupin somehow knew that Neville’s grandmother wore ridiculous clothing. After Neville, faced with the prospect of fighting a boggart, admits that he is terrified of Snape, Lupin asks him to recall his grandmother’s clothes. Why? Why not ask Neville what he would find amusing? True, Snape in any grandmother’s clothing would have been hilarious, but Mrs. Longbottom has quite the reputation (in the books) for her eccentric style. How did Lupin know this? Why was this Lupin’s first thought when helping Neville fight the boggart?
Because he knew Frank and Alice Longbottom, went to school with them, and fought alongside them in the Order of the Phoenix. Because at some point in his life, Remus Lupin met Augusta Longbottom and her image was stuck so firmly in his mind that, decades later, he was still able to recall that stuffed vulture hat and help Neville overcome his fears.
She was probably the type of woman whom you’d call “a real piece of work” after you met her, then look around nervously to make sure she wasn’t going to pop out from the shadows and beat your ass with that giant handbag of hers.
Sirius probably called her that within earshot once, and actually did get his ass beat while Remus, James and Peter watched and laughed.
Sirius: Well, I manage my department, and I’ve been doing that for several months now. And, Merlin, I’ve learned a lot of life lessons along the way.
Remus: Your department’s just you, right?
Sirius: Yes, Remus, but I am not easy to manage.
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