Monday, October 21, 2019
malcolm x and ganja and hess
i think the role of violence against black people in both of the texts in very apparent in different ways. in ganja and hess, although dr greene is calm and appears collected and well put together, he is a blood addicted murdere, although not percieved as a vampire movie, he drinks peoples blood and supposedly lives forever, that to me would make anyone seem violent or sketchy in any vampire movie or scary movie nowadays, but i think perhaps when ganja and hess came out it was one of the first films of its kind to come out, so it was bound to have a lot of critique and judgement. it casted black charcaters like people haven't seen before, so maybe in that time it scared or intimidated white people. in malcolm x, however, I think the violence is on a different level but at the same time it could be compared to the aspect of the fear it instilled in some white people at that time, the though of black people having the same amount of power as them.
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