Fifty Shades of Black (2016)

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Fifty Shades of Black is a 2016 American romantic comedy movies directed by Michael Tiddes and starring Marlon Wayans. This movie was created as a parody for an erotic hit drama movie Fifty Shades of Grey. The movies features Kali Hawk, Affion Crockett, Jane Seymour, Andrew Bachelor, Florence Henderson, Jenny Zigrino, Fred Willard and Mike Epps.[1]

Fifty Shades of Black poster

Plot

A shy college student named Hannah, is introduced by a black person named Christian, to romance world soon after she talks with him for her school paper. Their bizarre relationship keeps moving forward despite Christian's inadequacies as a lover and the antics of his bigoted adoptive mother Claire, his exceptional sibling Eli and Hannah's hyper-sexual flat mate Kateesha.[1]

Controversy

The movie features a common use of the word "Nigga" in both provocative and a comedic manner. One scene shows a white woman screaming to a black man in a club "Nigga who you callin' white"? However, the replies was unexpected. The man says to himself that the word "Nigga" turns him on. He even requests the woman to call him "Nigga" again before she leaves the scene. It depicts how black character in this movies are bad and horny person.[2]

The movie shows the complete opposite of how Fifty Shades of Grey movie is shown. The main character, Christian, who is in the original movie owns a company and earns money out of his own work, shows to be a drug dealer in this movie. There are quite many Black words used to present what a Black man is. Christian address that most black entrepreneurs get money as a drug dealer. There's also a dialogue where Hannah addresses back people negatively;

Hannah Steele: I hate you the way black people hate cops.

Christian Black: Wow.

Hannah Steele: I hate you the way Republicans hate Obamacare.

Christian Black: Baby, come on now.

Hannah Steele: I hate you the way Kanye West hates everybody else.

Christian Black: Well, I'm kind of with him on Taylor Swift.

(Tiddes, 2016)[3]

During one sex scene, the camera moves over a series of Black's whip which is named as “12 Years a Slave” and “Django Unchained.” The movie is believed to take on Bill Cosby’s rape allegations in a cheap manner.[4]

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