White People Won't Save You - Django Unchained Pt. 2 (Feat. Fiq the Signifier)

Django Unchained Pt. 2 (Feat. Fiq the Signifier)

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11/18/21 • 60 min

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White People Won't Save You

Part two with our special guest, Fiq the Signifier finds us getting into this research and ranking Django on our Caucacity Meter. Did Tarintino make the greatest slavery film ever? He certainly thinks so. Also Fiq shares a behind the scenes story about Leo and Sam Jackson, and we think about how to remake this movie in a way that keeps the exploration but loses the white savior.

You absolutely need to subscribe to Fiq's channel to catch up on all the amazing work he's putting out. He's got videos on everything from allyship, to Bo Burnham's latest special, to the gender politics of Love and Basketball. If you like us, you'll love what he's got going on. Check out his Patreon and follow him on Twitter @fdsignifier

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Dune (Feat Cate Young)

For the first time ever, we've got a fresh one! Dune is one of the most hotly debated movies of the year and the question everyone has been asking us is: Is Paul a white savior? Here to help us make sense of the newest film iteration of Frank Herbert's seminal sci-fi epic is film critic Cate Young.

We get into the central question of Paul and Jordan does his best to play resident Dune expert by providing the evidence for and against. We also talk about the ways to go about adapting stories for a modern era, and try to figure out what the hell was up with the bagpipes?

You truly need to follow everything Cate is doing, so check her out on Twitter @battymamzelle as well as her phenomenal Insecure coverage for Vulture, and her awesome newsletter on Substack, 30 Flirty Film.

Films recommended: Eternals, Spencer, Rat Film

Please, please, check us out at @white_pod because we will be dropping all of our research for this episode on our timeline, so if you want to read any of these articles and others we didn't have time to mention you can read them there. Also if you have anything we missed our if you think we got this all wrong, hit us up at [email protected]

We love y'all, see you next week!

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The Last Samurai (Feat. Barathan Vidhyapathy)

On this episode, we travel back to 19th century Japan to answer one of the burning questions of our time: Tom Cruise is really the last samurai? We're joined by the our very first international guest, the super talented Barathan Vidhyapathy of the FOCAL channel on Youtube to discuss Edward Zwick's historical drama The Last Samurai (2003).

So much to get into. Was Kevin Costner looking at this movie like Soulja Boy was looking at Drake? What was the point of Taka's character? Who was the last samurai, and does it even matter if the film is only concerned with if Algren can overcome his past and not...you know, Japan as a country.

We also talk about how this movie is nowhere close to historically accurate, how we could remake it without Algren, and Cameron embraces the void!

Movies to watch: Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Mifune: The Last Samurai

Barathan is very cool and has so many cool things going on. Check out his YouTube channel here for great video essays on stuff like Temple of Doom and Mad Max. Also support the Patreon here.

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