Soul Plane (2004)

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Soul Plane (2004) American comedy movie directed by Jessy Terrero, featuring Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart, Method Man and Snoop Dogg in the movie. Soul Plane got a a lot of negative reviews from critics, grossing $14 million worldwide against a $16 million budget and becomes one of the box office bomb.[1]

Soul Plane poster

Plot

After an embarrassing encounter on a plane, Nashawn Wade sues the aircraft and is granted a colossal settlement. Thinking to use the money in a good way, Nashawn creates the airline he had always wanted,hot attendants, astounding music, a hot installed dance club, and a bathroom attendant. Leaving from all-new Terminal X in Los Angeles, Soul Plane gives "fly" a whole new experience of voyage full of comedy.[2]

Controversy

The ground of he movie was born from having several comedians jokes around "what would've happened if there were a 'black airline?" However, what is being delivered in this movie is full self-hateful and derogatory upon black people itself. The movie is a 90 minutes of shameful humor explaining why African Americans are not respected.[3]

The movie gets negative comment coming from Spike Lee, who said that the movie is "coonery and buffoonery" for showing black people under a negative highlight. The movie is criticized for being a modern-day minstrel show, mirroring who black people were shown as a lazy clowns back in 1940s and 1950s.[4]

Being the first black airline, their motto is "We fly. We party. We land." . It begins as a promising excursion back to Airplane land. It is a mockery credited to modern air travel experience -- impolite or awkward ticket agents, baggage handlers and flight attendants, food that doesn't look edible. It is loaded with comic cliches about the social contrasts between Black America and the Rest of America.[5]

The entire flight from L.A. to New York is loaded up with with gay, fart, rap-video, white-individuals are-weak and white-women-fall-for-black-men jokes, and a presumably "Airplane" inspired crash landing by non-pilots after the pilot dies.[6] The “N-word” spread freely along the movie.

Actress Anne-Marie Johnson, the national chairwoman of the equal employment opportunity branch of the Screen Actors Guild, says the creators of this movie are being ignorant for the “scars ‘Soul Plane’ leaves on the culture.” Johnson, who featured in the 1987 parody "Hollywood Shuffle," which ridicules black stereotyples in Hollywood, added: "Nothing has changed since 'Hollywood Shuffle.' truth be told, it's deteriorated."[4]

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