Bringing Up Blackface
Exclusive to The Popcorn Reel: Special Guest Movie Review of: "Norbit"
By Norbit's Cousin (we think)
Dated: February 9, 2007
(Photo: Dreamworks Pictures)
Well eye jes' luvs mee dat rolly pollee big fatt blak gorilla face gal.
That mammie was poy-fickt! Aunt Jamama Jemima wood bee prowd! An' dose two
pimp-meisters playde by Eddie Griffin and that udder perp? Yeay- they is da
grey-est. But wear tha waterm'lon? Weyre the fried chicken? Ann' tha
buffy dark muscel thug freaks -- dey ain't have half a brain betwin ther for
ov dem! And de Cuba guy -- fartha to awll them kidds from all diff'rnt
wimmen -- so Gooding wan' it? Nyce stereotype! Noyce and raycist. I jus
loves laffin at that raycist stuff. Black folk jess neva loukt dumma on
feelm. Duzn't that Oscar winna Cuba seeem to end upp in a lotta bad movees??
Reel funney -- blackface stuff -- and the Wayans cat -- yup, hee -- ho, ho,
hee -- he a lusty studly buffoon fo yore laffing pledgesure. Hee frum der
awfull "White Chicks" moovee, ain' it? Coz evrybaddy noes that whyte gurlls
are hoes write? Remimber that wunn seen in Norbit wher that wun whit gal sed
shee "want to be a ho"? Un wat abot tha Chiney Wong man ha! Wy coun' he
tawk strait? Dat olde Charlie Chan would loves hiim -- and woods love him
long tyme. "Borat" mayde sum funn of the peeple hue iz Jewish, bat I din't
like that so much. I din't find dat funney at aull -- but ah duhno y -- but
I's surre loved thiis. Din't' lik that der Gibson feelm "Passion Of The
Christ", or hees damnedd "Apocalypto" or that Benigni thing culled "Life Is
Beautiful" -- but chile, this hear film was even better than "Birth of A
Nation"! Even the Ku Klux Klan loved that one!
An wot waz the thin bout sum Spike Lee dude, some "Bamboozled" flick he did
do? Maybbe gots to c itt two unnerstand. Ize shood reed bookz slikes
"Toms, Coons, Mammies and Bucks" by Donald Bogle, or "Blackface" by Nelson
George -- but az yu cun cee um eliterate. So yeah dat "Norbit" openes
todayy! Bessist film eva! Vivar Eddie Murphey! So goode in that "Dreamgurlz"
butt goin bakk to doin the samest "Nutty" (Professor) stuff he didded in
"Coming To America".
(Turkee) butt I shouldden gett tu crazee abowt awll thees cuzz eeitz ownlee
a moovee. Wears yo cents of hewma, yu mite sey? I shoudda sed the saime
when peopll wure madd att dat Kramer guy Michael Richards.
"Norbit" was reele funnee. It was Hurricane Katrina funny. It was folks jumpin off them buildinz sum Septembras ago funny.
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