Whoop that waif: Black Snake Moan
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Update: Looks like they pulled the video, and I couldn’t find another trailer on YouTube. If anyone can find the trailer online, please post a link. Thanks!
We warned told you about Black Snake Moan back in May. It’s Craig Brewer’s follow-up to Hustle & Flow
The trailer is out now (hat tip to Christopher) and it looks like Sam Jackson will be playing the time-honored role of The Magic Negro, saving waifish white Christina Ricci from her own sexual demons. Even if he has to chain her up in his kitchen:
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s wrote:
Wow. I am laughing because my mind just can’t grasp the concept of this being a real movie that someone invested in and planned play on the big screen.
Did she have a confed flag on her shirt?
Weird looking movie.
Posted 04 Jan 2007 at 1:38 pm ¶
Nina wrote:
First Snakes on A Plane, then Black Snake Moan? What is up with Samuel Jackson. I thought he wasn’t doing drugs anymore, but I guess he is in a lot of debt hence the awful movie roles. Hopefully this will see a very limited release and disappear quickly.
Posted 04 Jan 2007 at 5:20 pm ¶
Gandalf Mantooth wrote:
Brewer is pretty aware of the iconography he’s playing with. I don’t know if living in Memphis hood and hanging out with 3-6 and Singleton has made him believe he has a Negro pass or not, but from my convo with him I think we can wait and see on this one before tossing him to the wolves. I mean have we seen this one yet?
Posted 04 Jan 2007 at 6:34 pm ¶
Ariah Fine wrote:
um, vid is no longer available
Posted 04 Jan 2007 at 8:04 pm ¶
Kyssandra wrote:
I saw the movie….and it was sort of strange. But i think it’s funnier that a black man saves the poor white girl and not the other way around. There are too many movies in which the a white person saves the minority, i.e Freedom Writers, Dangerous Minds, etc.
Posted 15 Jun 2007 at 11:08 pm ¶