The take on the movie, which this blogger hasn't seen yet, has led to protests online and offline. The San Jose Mercury News reports that a protest was held in Livermore, California over the idea that Machete is anti-white.
But a commenter here at Zennie62.com and on the previous post about Machete has a take worthy of mention:
Alex Jones is stoking the flames of white american frustration and anger. His articles of this movie have been featured on DrudgeReport.com the past few days. I've certainly have never heard or read of him before but by reading his recent articles he seems like a complete conspiratorial nutjob.
A recent movie I viewed called the "The Expendables" with Sylvester Stallone deals with him and a band of mercenaries (whites) flying into a small island banana republic controlled by a CIA rouge agent (white again) and end up totally massacring at least 250 latino soldiers. The sole latina in the film is even water boarded in full view graphically. Not one word from Univision/Telemundo etc. etc. of this. Why no outrage? It's not reality, it's fiction, it's film.
Can't we have a movie where mexicans are for once the heroes? Alex Jones says NO!
Interesting. But given my interview with Sylvester Stallone at Comic Con 2010, I'm certain he would bristle at the notion The Expendables is anti-Latino, let alone anti-Mercenary.
Still, the commenter has a good point. Even if there's no stated intent to present Latinos in a bad light, The Expendables does have to do with a fictional South American (read: Latino) country and a dictator (read: Latino), and people who defend the country who The Expendables, of which all are not white - Terry Crews is black and Jet Li is Asian - but do kill people who have a Latino reference, if you will.
Oh, boy. My guess is Lionsgate's not going to be happy about having their tentpole film tossed into this debate.
Alex jones is actually saving this world from a complet tecnological dictatorship and the whole world knows it. The destractions of race wars and dehumanization along w fears of war are all destraccion to accelarate a one world order. We all know that so calling alex jones anything other than a hero to humanity is just a lie. You should be spending your energy helping alex if you are human. Learn about infowars.com and get your family safe.
ReplyDeletethey say min men shoot babys out of there mothers stomachs and they have never killed anyone. in the expendables its a bunch mo mixed race mercs tighting drug cartells to save a girl.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm....I didn't know Terry Crews and Jet Li was white.
ReplyDeleteJimmy, you did not read the blog post.
ReplyDeleteAs a rule I do not judge films before seeing them.
ReplyDeleteThat said the themes in Machete vs those in expendables sound very different. The Expendables are after a dictator who happens to be in Latin America, naturally he's going to be guarded by Latino soldiers. But it is little more complicated than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expendables_(2010_film)
Plot spoiling details, but it is suffice to say that the dictator is backed by some non Latinos as well, who actually end up being the film's main antagonists.
But like I said, I'll hold my fire on machete until I've seen it, Alex Jones is a whack job freak show anyway so I'm not going to take his word for it.
I don't think Stallone is such a great director slash former actor as Clint Eastwood. But, he's done a pretty decent job on this movie
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