Remake of the move annie

[guno]

Looks good

This Dec

 

[Asclepias]

Looks good

This Dec

Already marked on my calendar.

 

[R.D.]

She is cute

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

I love the story. I had a dog in the early 80's named Otis. He starred in our local elementary school's production of Annie.

 

[blastoff]

Looks like Annie has contracted a rare case of Reverse Michael Jackson Disease and topped it off with a nose procedure for effect.

 

[Asclepias]

Seems to be catching. The movie Exodus has a whole bunch of white people playing Egyptians.

 

[whitehall]

So what? Do the sad remnants of segregationist democrats think anybody is offended by a Black kid starring in the remake of Annie? Look at yourselves lefties, you are the only ones who judge people on the basis of the color of their skins.

 

[Asclepias]

So what? Do the sad remnants of segregationist democrats think anybody is offended by a Black kid starring in the remake of Annie? Look at yourselves lefties, you are the only ones who judge people on the basis of the color of their skins.

I remember not too long ago there were a couple of threads with whites upset about Black superheroes and the very movie in the OP. So I would answer yes to your question.

 

[Mr. H.]

I've heard that kid sing. She's awesome.

 

[Bush92]

Looks good

This Dec

Racist on this board push it only because Annie is Black in this movie re-make. Big deal. Man liberals are obsessed with race.

 

[skye]

But little orphan Annie's hair is big red, curly hair!

Can they color her hair red?

 

[Bush92]

Oh yeah I can hear it now..."The mothafuckin sun be coming out t'morrows, bet yo bitch ass bottoms dolla that the sun be coming out tomorrow...unless a mothafuckin white cop be shootin it."

 

[Asclepias]

 

[blastoff]

If chocolate Annie speaks standard English will she be shunned by some blacks for acting white?

 

[Katzndogz]

People will either go see it or they won't. A black Annie and Daddy Warbucks won't help.

When Annie, the Musical first came out, it was hugely successful because people still knew who Little Orphan Annie was. That generation is long gone. Black Annie will be almost as popular as black The Wiz.

 

[hoosier88]

But little orphan Annie's hair is big red, curly hair!

Can they color her hair red?

(My bold)

Yah. I always look @ this kind of discussion & wonder if the historical Jesus actually looked anything like the Medieval & Renaissance pictures we have stuck in our heads of Him. You know, blond over blue, kinda woeful expression, nimbus behind Him.

& I think that if He actually looked a lot more Semitic (Jewish or Arab, take your pick) & had been depicted as such - we might have been spared a lot of self-serving hogwash throughout Christianity's history. Possibly not, but we could have hoped.

 

[Vandalshandle]

The Annie musical was a huge success. However, the Annie movie was an unmitigated disaster, which was so bad that it killed the Broadway version, too. I can't see this as being successful. BTW, it also reminds me of the black version of the Wizard of Oz (The Wiz), which was also a disaster. While black exploitation films worked during the 70's, I think that Blacks are more sophisticated today.

 

[Katzndogz]

But little orphan Annie's hair is big red, curly hair!

Can they color her hair red?

(My bold)

Yah. I always look @ this kind of discussion & wonder if the historical Jesus actually looked anything like the Medieval & Renaissance pictures we have stuck in our heads of Him. You know, blond over blue, kinda woeful expression, nimbus behind Him.

& I think that if He actually looked a lot more Semitic (Jewish or Arab, take your pick) & had been depicted as such - we might have been spared a lot of self-serving hogwash throughout Christianity's history. Possibly not, but we could have hoped.

A

But little orphan Annie's hair is big red, curly hair!

Can they color her hair red?

(My bold)

Yah. I always look @ this kind of discussion & wonder if the historical Jesus actually looked anything like the Medieval & Renaissance pictures we have stuck in our heads of Him. You know, blond over blue, kinda woeful expression, nimbus behind Him.

& I think that if He actually looked a lot more Semitic (Jewish or Arab, take your pick) & had been depicted as such - we might have been spared a lot of self-serving hogwash throughout Christianity's history. Possibly not, but we could have hoped.

The difference is, we know exactly what Annie looked like. She was created by a cartoonist fully formed as Little Orphan Annie as a little redheaded white child. There is nothing open to interpretation. There is nothing ambiguous about Annie's race. These moviemakers are taking artistic license in changing Annie into a black child with a black Daddy Warbucks. It will either be successful or it won't. It's doubtful that it will be successful, not because Annie is now black instead of a redheaded white child, but because so few people today have a connection to Annie, as they once did. The Sunday Funnies version of Annie no longer exists.

Remakes of nostalgia that force feed blacks into roles never intended for them are just not successful.

 

[Asclepias]

The Annie musical was a huge success. However, the Annie movie was an unmitigated disaster, which was so bad that it killed the Broadway version, too. I can't see this as being successful. BTW, it also reminds me of the black version of the Wizard of Oz (The Wiz), which was also a disaster. While black exploitation films worked during the 70's, I think that Blacks are more sophisticated today.

The Wiz was awesome. I never saw the Wizard of Oz until I was an adult. My parents only allowed us to see The Wiz. I did pretty much the same thing with my kids. The youngest is 14 and they just saw the white version last year.

 

[Katzndogz]

The Wizard of Oz is a classic. Someone could paint a black Mona Lisa with the same result. A black Mona Lisa would not be hanging in the Louvre. There will never be a replacement for the Wizard of Oz. And no white version of Porgy and Bess either.