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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:13 PM
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Name a movie where all the bad guys were a certain ethnicity,
and none of the good guys were of that same ethnicity?

Star Wars (the onhly 3 worth mentioning): All the baddies are deliciously British. No Brits on the rebel side. Now if SW was 200 years old, it'd be hip. But for that reason, it's square. Anti-anglo isn't in, that's for sure!

Others?
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:17 PM
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1. I don't know about that
Grand Moff Tarkin (A New Hope) struck me as more of a German Nazi type.
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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:18 PM
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2. Navy Seals
A horridly made movie, and to be fiar it DOES take place mostly in the middle-east.
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:19 PM
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3. Goodfellas
All the bad guys were Italian. There were no good guys.
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 07:03 PM
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15. Not exactly...
"Jimmy Conway" (Robert De Niro)...

"Henry Hill" (Ray Liotta). I think Henry Hill was half Sicilian.

There was the Jewish guy who owned a wig store (or something like that).

The black guy who was supposed to get rid of the get-away van (but didn't and ended providing the link that the police needed for the Lufthansa heist).

Besides... one had to be Sicilian to be a "Goodfella"... being Italian was sorta okay.

:)
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:20 PM
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4. Rosewood
The villans were all white. The heroes were black. They were assisted by a couple of white people who had to be all but coerced into helping them.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:22 PM
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5. Saving Private Ryan. Or
Any WWII movie.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:25 PM
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6. All the drug lords in movies and TV are Spanish speaking folks.
Most of the other types of bad guys are African American.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:26 PM
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7. Well, here's the exemption to that rule:
"Live and Let Die" featured a black drug dealer (:wow:) and a black good guy (:wow:) and a white chick who worked for the black drug dealer (:wow:)

:D
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Technowitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:29 PM
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8. True Lies - the Schwarzengroper film from a few years back
Bad guys = 100% Arabs

Good guys = White Americans, plus one Jewish-looking geek fellow.

Not a single African-American or Latino in there as a major character.
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catbert836 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:29 PM
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9. Rush Hour 2
They're all Chinese folks.
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renegade000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:56 PM
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14. what about jackie chan?
:shrug:
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:38 PM
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10. Lethal Weapon 2 (or was it 3?)
I think all the bad guys were German.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 04:27 AM
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24. South African Boors (?)
But it was true in several "Die Hard"s.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 04:41 AM
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25. That's "Boers"
As in the Boer War
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 05:20 AM
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26. ah
I somehow thought that the English spelling was different.
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BulletproofLandshark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:40 PM
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11. One minor flaw in your Star Wars theory
Obi-Wan had a British accent
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:55 PM
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12. Black Hawk Down
didn't see a single whitey, 'cept for our guys of course
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progressor Donating Member (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 05:31 AM
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27. Thought of this one too...
Edited on Wed Apr-06-05 05:31 AM by progressor
of course it makes perfect sense for the Americans to be the only whities in Somalia! :D
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 06:19 AM
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30. True, but the question was asked
;-)
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progressor Donating Member (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 06:22 AM
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31. Oh, I know...
it definitely qualifies. ;-)
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 06:25 AM
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32. I'm still wondering how Germans are considered an 'ethnic' group
Edited on Wed Apr-06-05 06:25 AM by DS1
:shrug:

Are the French ethnic too? How about the Belgians? Are Scots that much different from Brits?
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 06:55 PM
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13. And since when was nationality and ethnicity the same thing? Germans?
They're caucasions, like the British.

sheesh
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 07:05 PM
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16. Any Chuck Norris flick.
Bad actor, bad bad bad bad bad.
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 07:15 PM
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17. Alien Nation.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 07:17 PM
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18. Lion King
for the most part
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 07:21 PM
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19. The Siege.
The one where New York is under martial law because of terrorist attacks and all young Arabic males are imprisoned.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133952/

Tony Shalhoub plays a Muslim NYC detective trying to locate the terrorist cells.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 07:44 PM
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20. Um. Obi-Wan Kenobi: Sir Alec Guinness
Most Definitely British.
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 07:45 PM
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21. Jurassic Park
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 08:03 PM
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22. LOL
nt
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-05 08:07 PM
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23. "Wake Island"
or any other WW2 era movie on the Pacific theater of operations.
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ffm172 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 06:00 AM
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28. in a lot of movies Germans are the bad one
Always being Nazis. That sucks sometimes. I know we have our history and we can't change it. But not all Germans are Nazis anymore. Everything but that.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 06:16 AM
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29. Yellow Submarine
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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 06:41 AM
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33. Three Amigos ?
I know it was a comedy, but stereotyped Bad Guy Banditos.
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-05 06:52 AM
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34. Fort Apache
the bad guys were all white.
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