This question is inspired by Wesley Morris from his Still Processing podcast. He was talking about how much much of our cultural imagination for how black and white men interact come from buddy comedies or just buddy movies in general, but there isn’t much of an equivalent for women.
We have the black-white buddy comedies like Stir Crazy, Blazing Saddles, Men in Black, Trading Places, Get Hard, 48 Hours. Weirdly, a lot of those are also cop movies, but you also have it played straight in black-white buddy cop movies: Lethal Weapon, Training Day. Then you have the more borderline cases like in Django Unchained, Shawshank, The Defiant Ones. But I’m struggling to think of female-led buddy movies. Is this a result of movies not generally starring multiple women or something more specific?
As a side question that I only thought of while writing this: why do you think so many of our black/white buddy comedies take place in the context of the police, or law enforcement more generally (MiB, Blazing Saddles)? Does this point to anything about us or those institutions?
Submitted May 18, 2018 at 10:19AM by HannibalHamlinsanity https://ift.tt/2GtQY7F
