I’d say that the Whit Stillman trilogy (Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco) are pretty white.
LOTR trilogy
Nanook of the North is so white they have to wear snow goggles. Great film.
I’m black and a fan of them, but most Wes Anderson movies are aggressively white.
One of the jurors, the one played by Jack Klugman, had grown up in a slum and mentioned having witnessed knife fights as a kid. There was also a European immigrant juror, played by George Voskovec. Voskovec himself was Czech, but I don’t recall if the film identified what country the character was supposed to be from.
Not many people seem to remember that there was a TV-movie remake of Twelve Angry Men (on Showtime, I think) done in the late 1990s, with Jack Lemmon in the Henry Fonda role. Its casting included several black actors, including Courtney B. Vance, Ossie Davis, and Mykelti Williamson (although the jury is still all male). I thought it was okay, although not as good as the original film.
I submit 1957’s The Story of Mankind with white Native Americans and white ancient Egyptians.
There have been several productions of Twelve Angry Men with twelve women on the jury.
Even the African Americans in Birth of a Nation were white.
It’s rated 4.9 on IMDB, so it probably isn’t very good.
I can see that it got some bad ratings, but I just thought it would be interesting if someone here has seen it and can describe it.
The Big Chill is the whitest movie ever, that’s been verified by science.
It isn’t just the number of white people but also the degree of whiteness of them. They make Mormon missionaries look like hippies.
Any Merchant/Ivory film that isn’t set in India.
Of course, they pale (no pun intended) against the whitest TV shows of all time. I don’t care if they featured black singers and dancers, “Sing Along With Mitch” and “Lawrence Welk” made even the whitest film look like a Spike Lee joint.
So were the “natives” in “Gilligan’s Island.”
I don’t know about that.
Royal Tenenbaums has one major black character who’s a big part of the story. The Darjeeling Limited is set in India. The titular hotel of The Grand Budapest Hotel is owned by a guy who…I’m not sure where’s he’s supposed to be from, but it’s somewhere in the Near Eastern region. (That character is arguably the main character of the movie.) The Life Aquatic has a pretty multicultural cast.
Moonrise Kingdom is, I think, his most “white” movie.
It’s not that all the actors are white that creeps me out. It’s that they’re acting soooo white…
It’s the Golly Gee Willikers! fakey wholesomeness.
I agree for the most part although Danny Glover played a prominent role in The Royal Tenenbaums. Here’s the thing about movie productions being accused of racial bias in casting that I’m confused about (and I don’t want to start a hijack): does Wes Anderson have actors in mind while he’s creating? If not, does he send out a casting call stating that he is principally interested in ONLY white actors auditioning? Is he making his creative choices based on his personal experiences, ones in which while growing up he was surrounded only by white people? I remember the great advice given to budding authors: “Write about what you know.”
Check out his AmEx commercial. My simplification is that Anderson is kinda like Tim Burton, but with a 1950’s national geographic, pastel aesthetic instead of a creepy 1980’s goth one.
I’m also a fan of his movies, but I have to agree. While there are people of color in his movies and he does seem to be trying, his overall point of view comes from a very specific white perspective, where the boarding school kids of Rushmore are kind of the default and other people are interesting for how they deviate from that norm.
My first thought was “A Fish Called Wanda.”
But for ‘whitey’ white, I think my vote actually goes to any of those ‘we got a dog and now hilarity has ensued’ movies. I’m specifically thinking of “Beethoven”, but there are others.