"Hancock" is Racist

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Hancock is Racist... Yeah, you read the subject line correctly. The new superhero movie "Hancock," which Will Smith has said will be the biggest film of his career, is racist. I enjoyed the movie well enough. Will Smith is one of those performers that's just so effin' charming that almost anything he's in appears better than it actually is. There is a rated R cut circulating out there in California which I would very much like to see. It was a dark movie with a lot of violence and Will Smith even drops the F-Bomb. Take that fuck face Jazzy Jeff. Back to the subject line at hand. Racism...Now before you go saying "CJ, you are the most politically incorrect cracker I know" please take the following into account...I am white and therefore oppressed and easily offended. "Hancock" is only 92 minutes long, yet it still manages to fit in the following top notch racist ideas and thoughts: 1. John Hancock is an alcoholic superhero that at one point in the movie passes out on a bus bench. There is a drunk black guy that lives in my neighborhood that passes out on benches too, but he can't fly. He attracts flies, but he can't fly. Hancock isn't the only alcoholic superhero, I mean Ironman/Tony Stark likes the sauce too. However, if you are white and have a drinking problem you go home to a mansion. If you're black and have a drinking problem you wake up surronded by strangers staring at you or in your trailer. 2. Hancock goes to prison. Seriously, was this needed? They give us a black superhero and then send him to jail? That's as racist as having a Mexican superhero whose power lies in his sombrero. Actually that's a movie I'd see... Anyway, many superheros deserve to go to prison for some of the shitty movies they are in,(Fantastic Four, I'm looking in your direction...) but I can't think of one white superhero that has gone to prison. So apparently the man can even keep a superhero down. The following is a spoiler, but still very racist: 3. Hancock loses his powers when he gets too close to a white woman. Yes, Charlize Theron is a superhero as well. If you were wondering why there wasn't much of the plot revealed in the trailer that's why. It turns out that these superheros never age and have a romantic past together, but he can't remember. When the two get too close to one another Hancock loses his powers. He has to get far away from this woman in order to remain strong. Segregation at it's finest...keeping the black man away from white women. How messed up is that?!?!? There's some other racist things in the movie as well, but one deals with a French kid and that's the kind of racism that brings the world together in perfect harmony...