Let's talk about "White savior narrative in film"

I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.

blood diamond is the worst scenario of white savior....the film gives him an out after all he has done by making him a martyr....the script of that movie tries so hard to paint him as a hero despite being a crook

Writing off Green Book as a "white savior" movie is offensively simplifying what the movie is about and dismissing a great piece of cinema just because we're so hyperfocused today on making sure every product is as politically correct and inoffensive as possible. Even when the movie itself preaches love and respect. Tony and Shirley help each other out and learn something about themselves along the way. Shirley learns he can't drink all his problems away and that he deserves some genuine happiness while Lip learns to abandon his old violent ways and to respect those different from himself. It's a heartwarming story about friendship and having each other's back, not Tony Lip being the guardian angel from heaven.

And yes, Green Book won Best Picture. So what? Spike Lee at least won Best Screenplay, isn't that good by itself? BlackKklansman is great, but I love Green Book even more. It all comes down to personal taste, not the color of the director's skin.

Den var bara mysig.

Sometimes that is great cinema

I think is part of the reason why I like that directors like Jordan peele and Ryan coogler are exploding onto the scene. They make great movies that. Scone financial successes that feature Blacks as the heroes.

Sometimes I have a tough time with those.

Owned any slaves lately? I sure haven't...The only thing I'm going to atone for is eating too much pizza last night

I think a key difference with 12 Years A Slave is that the typical white saviour movie is centred mostly (if not entirely) around its white protagonist and their journey whereas Pitt's character only shows up in the last 15 minutes or so and effectively serves as a plot device to save actual protagonist Solomon. As for the idea that Solomon was "going to solve his own problems", keep in mind that he had been trying to escape one way or another and it kept backfiring on him (most memorably when Garret Dillahunt's character betrayed him) to the point where he's shown burning a letter he's written so as to confirm that he had given up trying to reach home completely. It's meant to indicate a system so broken and overbearing that he resigns himself to his fate and, were it not for the sudden appearance of Pitt's character, would have continued on indefinitely.