We should also have more films such as Something New. There are so many stories that could be told from the past, the present and even the future. All of these black women white men/non-bm romance novels and we don't have more IR movies even if they are straight to video? Everyone look at these photos from Jet Magazine on Black Women IR in the freaking 50's.
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You can read her article at http://www.blackfemaleinterracialmarriage.com/2010/01/bfim-gazette-bwwm-marriages-are-not-new-at-all-and-will-greatly-increase.html I've been wanting to write a story about an IR (that isn't tragic) between a black woman and a white man and doing the research on such unions is hard. It's hard to believe that in a country where people barely listen to their own laws that there wouldn't have been those that defied. Richard vs. Loving anyone.
Okay so I know that something New made back $11 mill or so, but there could at least be straight to dvd features. Hollywood does it all the time. When a movie doesn't do as well at the boxoffice (and I guess does do okay on vid)then they will make a movie that is about the same production budget as what was made on the first movie. Check out Dungeons & Dragons and then Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God, Mimic and countless other movies. So why hasn't this been done with black women IR films. And I'm not talking about movies that are straight to video that you feel it's straight to video movie. Now yes some of these movies are made to be cheapies. Movies such as Soul of the Game, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (yes made for tv by HBO)as well as other films by HBO made you feel like these movies should have been in the theater whether they were about white, black etc.
So why haven't features been made? There are so many black women IR novels it's ridiculous. New books are coming out everyday so what's up? If it's budget I am so for a movie that is the budget of a teen movie or movie with unknowns just as long as we get some decent movies.
In a later post I will post budgets of movies.
