Soul Man

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Soul Man is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Steve Miner and written by Carol L. Black. The film got involved in controversy because it is portraying a white entertainer in blackface, provoking some people to protest against its release. The film was widely criticized for featuring a white actor wearing blackface. In spite of the movie is controversial and critics gave then negative reviews, Soul Man was successful, profiting $35 million on a $4.5 million budget. [1]

Plot

The main character in this movie is a UCLA graduate who acts as a black person in order to fit the bill for a grant to Harvard Law School, and the movie shows his first semester in the Harvard Law School, when he fights with a black professor, have a crush with a black woman and experience racism. [2]

Controversy

The plot concerns a young, white man who is accepted by Harvard Law School but can't come up with the sky-high tuition until he hits on the idea of pretending to be black. After he turns his skin to black using overdose tanning pills, he applies and gets a scholarship that only accepted black students. The filmmakers never put their shoes on the black people and don't understand anything about being black, and that restricts their capacity to discover the humor in the circumstance they've set up.[3]

References

  1. Soul Man (film). Wikipedia. Retrieved January 17 2021.
  2. Ebert Roger. Soul Man. Roger Ebert. Retrieved January 17 2021.
  3. Boyar, Jay. 'Soul Man' Just Goes to Show Discrimination Isn't Funny. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved January 17 2021.