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Feb. 10th, 2019 01:30 pmWalked in on one of our profs. discussing The Hours with one of my juniors, and ended up dwelling on how different that film would be if it were racebent to be more diverse.
Imagine the 50s sequence with African American characters living under Jim Crow laws and moving into the Civil Rights movement, with the husband still a WWII soldier. Race had such an impact on the ways in which men coming home from war reacted to the homes they came back to, and that would just be such an interesting watch/read. Plus the ways in which race inflected femininity.
And then the modern-day scenes in New York, with Asian, and Latinx people also present, as they were and are in queer scenes.
It would just. It would be really cool. I miss Racebending.
Imagine the 50s sequence with African American characters living under Jim Crow laws and moving into the Civil Rights movement, with the husband still a WWII soldier. Race had such an impact on the ways in which men coming home from war reacted to the homes they came back to, and that would just be such an interesting watch/read. Plus the ways in which race inflected femininity.
And then the modern-day scenes in New York, with Asian, and Latinx people also present, as they were and are in queer scenes.
It would just. It would be really cool. I miss Racebending.
