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Black History Mumf: Coming to America
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... like McDowell’s that elevate it past the mild amusement it seems to garner from White viewers into the upper echelon of hilarity it occupies for us. It crushes us under the weight of familiarity, to the point where a musical cue or a mere image is enough to inspire raucous laughter. There are so many in-jokes that the film is like an old Negro Spiritual: everybody can hear the music, but only we can understand the code in the words. ______________________ To read the article, click here .
The Original Cheeseburger Phone
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... From Odienator's Black History Mumf love-fest for Eddie Murphy's "Coming to America" at Big Media Vandalism, "You Ain't Never Met Martin Luther The King."
His caption for this photo : "Yeah, Juno got that hamburger phone idea from me. Bitch ain't even give me credit, neither, Florida!"
Writes Odie: "Coming to America" may be the Blackest comedy ever made, and it’s little touches like McDowell’s [the low-rent, individually owned McDonald's knock-off] that elevate it past the mild amusement it seems to ...
Black History Month with Big Media Vandalism
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... On the arranged marriage scene in Coming to America: “Now, a note to the bougie Negroes and liberal White folks who thought this section of the film was some kind of offensive representation of African culture: SIT YO’ ASS DOWN. Find me another movie where this much glitz and glamour, on such a grand scale, has been afforded people of color.” ...
Stepin Fetchit to Denzel Washington (Part I)
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... Corliss and Odie Henderson (aka Odienator) take personal approaches to examining black film history, but so far (Odie is on his 11th consecutive day of a month-long "Black History Mumf" series) they haven't overlapped much. Odienator has written, analytically and often nostalgically, about the Hudlin Bros.' Kid 'n' Play comedy "House Party," "football players-turned-actors, "Schoolhouse Rock," "," Eddie Murphy's "Coming to America," Joseph Mankiewicz's "No Way Out," (1950) with Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark, ...
