Comments on: Or Was it Just Andy Serkis in Motion Capture?

By: RobF

RobF — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:16:53 +0000

"Maybe I’ve just never been oppressed enough."

Yep. With some topics, it's just like clockwork.

By: Kelric

Kelric — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:17:41 +0000

I can understand it, I suppose, but it doesn't smack of racism at all to me in a case like this. It's a bunch of zombies attacking the player. They happen to be black. Oh noes.

Maybe I've just never been oppressed enough. Damn those cafeteria ladies and their keeping chocolate milk away from me. (Wait, is it okay that I said chocolate milk?)

By: Ezra

Ezra — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:12:03 +0000

To be fair, Kelric, there were some pretty awful racial connotations (especially from the Brute perspective) about Blackhawk Down (despite the dearth of females.. I guess Josh Hartnett will have to do..)

By: Kelric

Kelric — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:27:01 +0000

http://withleather.com/post.phtml?pk=5405

Destroy this mad brute!

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:34:23 +0000

There was a post someplace with comparison pictures that suggested the cover was a very specific allusion to a wartime propaganda poster. I will see if I can find it.

By: Kelric

Kelric — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:50:53 +0000

I'm sorry, but I just don't see it with the RE5 trailer. I see it with the James cover, have since that first got plastered on the internet. King Kong, easy enough image to connect it to. All I see with the RE5 trailer is a bunch of bad guys attacking the good guy. Those bad guys just happen to be black this time – were all four previous Resident Evils filled only with white zombies (and zombie dogs)?

Bill Harris wrote, "Anyone with an understanding of our own history will be repelled by what the trailer methodically evokes."

Honestly, it made me think of Blackhawk Down. Which was black mobs attacking white soldiers, in parts. Not the Black Man As The Devil imagery.