• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    6 months ago

    Also, his character in Django Unchained was an inversion of the Magic Negro trope: a very white character who exists solely to develop the main character.

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      6 months ago

      In the second and third acts, yes, but he does have his own thing going on in the first act. He’s absolutely an inversion of that trope, but he’s also much more fleshed out than some of the characters he’s an inversion of.

      Which really speaks to how lazy a lot of those writers were when it came time to flesh out their non-white characters.

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        Not actually magic but the trope is the negro in the past would’ve been “magic” because they help the main character in some way.