Focus Options has launched a brand new trailer for an upcoming “comedy” referred to as “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” directed by Kobi Libii.
The trailer incorporates a scene the place white individuals are described as “probably the most harmful animal on the planet.”
The film’s website shares, “The American Society of Magical Negroes is “a contemporary, satirical comedy a few younger man, Aren, who’s recruited right into a secret society of magical Black individuals who dedicate their lives to a reason for utmost significance: making white individuals’s lives simpler.”
The trailer introduces us to Smith’s character, who seems to be a brand new recruit of the American Society of Magical Negroes being skilled by Grier’s character.
The precise line of dialogue labelling white individuals as ‘harmful animals’ is uttered by Grier midway by the trailer, as his character prepares to clarify what the mission of this magical society is, revealing that their essential purpose is to maintain white individuals completely satisfied — with their discomfort ranges being measured in “white tears.”
“What’s probably the most harmful animal on the planet?” he rhetorically asks. Proper after Smith’s character replies with “shark,” he’s instantly corrected by Grier, who says, “White individuals after they really feel uncomfortable.”
“White individuals feeling uncomfortable precedes a whole lot of unhealthy stuff for us,” he continued. “That’s why we battle white discomfort daily. As a result of the happier they’re, the safer we’re.”
In an interview with Black Entertainment Television, Libii shares,
“All of it type of begins with the Magical Negro trope,” the director prefaced. “I’m positive you’re aware of it, however simply to outline it alone phrases, I consider the Magical Negro as a form of inventory Black character; a Black finest good friend character who is barely targeted on serving to the white hero.”
He went on, “They don’t actually have an interior life, and so they don’t have their very own issues happening. They’re simply relentlessly targeted on serving to this white character develop generally, and I all the time thought that was so humorous. For no matter cause, the concept that there’s a white author who photos the factor we do within the morning is getting up and making an attempt to assist them.”
“I discovered it so absurd and incorrect and humorous that I wished to blow it out and criticize it, but in addition use it as a solution to speak about different stuff,” Libii additional defined. “What it’s prefer to develop up as a Black particular person on this tradition and a number of the wild and fantastical issues we’ve got to do to outlive. To me, that’s the origin story of the movie.”
Watch the trailer under:
‘I actually can’t consider I’ve simply seen that. That’s terrible, it’s actually unhealthy!’
‘If it was the opposite manner round, there can be bloody riots!’
The panel react to the trailer for ‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’. pic.twitter.com/Bk90buvgos
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