On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Marc Pitre wrote: >What I see as weird is the hypothetical statement following "If we do..." >Very rarely are intelligent black male characters featured in films at >all. I'm not sure of Lee Elliott's intent, but I long to see more positive >black male characters that are not killed off or marginalized in the >context of a film's story. I'd just like to clarify something. My intent was only to see what everyone out there thought about this touchy issue with particular regard to James Cameron's films. I was not trying to place a value on anything or suggest that Cameron has racist tendancies. As a minority myself, the roles minorities are given in films (particularly gung-ho American films) are quite interesting to me. I agree with the sentiment that it would nice to see not just black characters, but all minority characters given a decent shake and not marginalized or killed off to soothe what is, after all, a largely "white" conscious. On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Errol Vieth wrote: > If Cameron had a point, it was that the control is held not by one colour or >gender, but by the often faceless corporate owners/stockholders. Let's be honest. Who are the majority of those faceless corporate owners/stockholders? And who must be sacrificed to save them? Lee Elliott Oh, and by the way, I was the phantom who asked about Alien vs. Predator. Thanks Brian, for the info. "The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on either side of the border." -Sitting Bull, 1879