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I have nothing to add to the discussion, but I found out about the movie myself through a promoted tweet recently, and in the name of sunk costs I'm going to quote some of the replies.
"Uhhhhhhhhh never mind, dammit can we not have stories focused on white people. My dumbass thought this was gonna be black Harry Potter"
"Hollywood doesn’t know how to make black lead films without making them about white people."
"Woulda been a fun chance to make a movie about a magical society of wise, semimystic black people strategically deploying to change people's lives. "
"Looks like they botched it. Would be much better if it was a group of heroes that did true MN stuff, like a janitor offering uncannily wise advice to a troubled guy working after hours at the office"
"Learning about magic just so you can end up being a side kick for some other guy to get the girl you like. Idk what’s worse - the person who wrote that as the pitch or the people who green lit it"
"The plot is that black people exist to make white people happy and the black guy has to get the white girl???? This is all kinds of cringe wtf"
"Aw man. The story is bout the worst type of negro possible: a light skinned SIMP"
"they couldn't make it anything funny or cool because key and peele already did a sketch about it"
"Quentin Tarantino makes better black films than black writers and directors."
"DamnI didn’t realize the klan was still making movies"
"This movie seems racist to both White and Black"
"Not to be racist or anything but this seems like it's funded and supported and written by Jews"
"You mean they're not fighting the Grand Wizard of the KKK?"
"I was thinking they had to stop like a rouge member from giving white people bad life lessons but this does seem way more boring"
Since the initial promoted tweet was negative, it's not surprising that the replies are too; but it does make me wonder whether there's anyone with a positive view on it. The only theory I saw for who the target audience is was "The aim is to show it overseas and make asia think white people are evil".
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