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My black co-worker asked me today to reccomend him a white people movie, and he'd give me a black people movie.

At first I reccomended Live Die Repeat (also known as Edge of Tomorrow) then remembered Wes Anderson exists and said anything by him maybe.

He reccomended Salt and The Tourist. I intend to watch them on the weekend.

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago

My vote for the whitest movie of all time is Metropolitan (1990). I enjoyed it, but i feel embarrassed recommending it. From Wikipedia:

Metropolitan (1990 film)

1990 film by Whit Stillman


Metropolitan is a 1990 American romantic comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Whit Stillman, in his feature directorial debut. The film concerns the lives of a group of wealthy young socialites during debutante season in Manhattan. In addition to some of their debutante parties, it covers their frequent informal after-hours gatherings at a friend's Upper East Side apartment, where they discuss life, philosophy and their fate; form attachments, romances and intrigues; and react to an interesting but less well-to-do newcomer.

Quick facts Directed by, Written by ...

Metropolitan was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 63rd Academy Awards.[4] The film is often considered the first of a trilogy of Stillman films set in the 1980s and portraying privileged young adults, followed chronologically by The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Barcelona (1994).[5]

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

White people movie: Death at a Funeral (2007)

Black people movie: Death at a Funeral (2010)

Bonus fun: Peter Dinklage plays the same character in both.

[–] sunsofold@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

How about Casablanca? It's black and white.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Steel Magnolias is the whittest movie ever made.

Maybe some white apologist shit like El Torino for a guy. That's a pretty good one.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Watched both with my Asian wife.

"Really! That's exactly how women in Mississippi are!"

She loved Grand Torino as well. (That's what you meant, right?)

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Grand Torino! That's the one!

[–] yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago

The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 81 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[–] searabbit@piefed.social 4 points 14 hours ago

Only my whitest friends emphatically recommend this movie and make any references to it. I don't think I've ever met a non-white person who's watched it. If they have, they never bring it up!

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh that's pretty damn white.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

So white it’s British

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

White movie: The Princess Bride

Black movie: Poetic Justice. Also, since the holidays are coming up, The Holiday and The Best Man.

Also, your coworker likes Angelina Jolie and that's all their picks mean. It's like they didn't even understand the question

[–] HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Oh god this coworker is a lot of fun but he kinda way off in right-field most of the time mentally.

[–] Wallaby@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Die Hard and Caddyshack come to mind as white people movies.

[–] HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I actually forgot that I said Die Hard first but he'd seen it. 😂 Caddyshack is I think the best suggestion so far!

For a white movie, I'd recommend Office Space from 1999. It's one of my all time favorites

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago

White people movie: Cruel Intentions (incredibly privileged and wealthy people being horrible to each other for no reason other than they can)

Black people movie: His House (South Sudanese refugees adapting to their new lives in England experiencing racism and hostility, oh and their house is haunted)

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

White: The LOTR original trilogy

Black: Coming to America, They Cloned Tyrone, Get Out (gave 3 movies since the trilogy is technically 3 movies)

Bonus

Asian: Kung Fu Hustle, Old Boy (very dark thriller warning), Spirited Away

Hispanic: Instructions Not Included, Coco, Pan's Labyrinth

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I'd be quite irritated if I offered to "trade" movies with someone and I gave them an 80 minute comedy and was told to watch a 12+ hour trilogy, lol. They are indeed white movies though.

Source: half-white LotR nerd

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

White Chicks. Then you’ve got both bases covered.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

White Men Can't Jump may cover both bases as well. :)

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Live Die Repeat is Japanese though, I don't get the "whiteness" in it, personally. IMO, some great "white people" movies, understood as Anglo-Saxon/Germanic/Nordic (else I'd have to include Spanish, French and Italian which certainly have a very different vibe), could be "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "In Bruges" or "Master and Commander".

[–] barooboodoo@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sorry To Bother You is an amazing movie with a scene that will make any white person uncomfortable (in a good way). Bonkers cast too.

[–] DrPop@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Somehow that movie was aytoplaying while I was asleep. I woke up at the very end when the symptoms show. I was thoroughly confused but intrigued.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I love that movie so fucking much. It saddens me that I will never again experience the thrill of watching it with a white person (many white people in fact) in a movie theatre. I'm not sure I'd want to because it made me feel physically ill but what a thrill.

[–] carbonari_sandwich@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The whitest film I've ever seen is Christopher Guest's Best in Show (2000).

I don't think you can outdo John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood (1991), but I think the most universally agreed upon movie that black people enjoy is actually Love and Basketball (2000).

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd argue that A Mighty Wind is even whiter.

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[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think Titanic is probably the whitest movie ever made. couldn't tell you what a black movie would be.

[–] searabbit@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What makes it white in particular? I'd argue it's the #1 movie for women. White would imply white men love it too.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

If women love it, men are are telling their partners they do too.

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[–] Greystripeycat@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whitest feeling movie I've seen.

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[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 0 points 12 hours ago

I'm not sure I understand what you both meant by white people or black people movies. If I'm getting the correct titles, it looks like both movies he recommended star Angelina Jolie (and incidentally both released in 2010). They don't appear to have any prominent black characters in them, but I could be mistaken. Why are those black people movies? Because black people enjoy them?

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 3 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Uh oh. I'm starting to notice that they're ALL white movies. It's almost as if the entire industry has been dominated by a single voice since it's inception. 🤔

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Inception, that's a good white people movie

Yeah. I thought it was bizarre when some people complained about a black actor playing the little mermaid. We could list Americans of northern European ancestry playing almost every other race, ethnicity and nationality without anyone blinking an eye and we could do it for days without being close to a complete list.

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