Shit! Since pizzabrat is already posting to this thread, I have to be gay to survice. 
Seriously all horror movies have cliches, somebody once posted a link on how to survive in a horror movie. Anybody remember it?
I was gonna write something about Will Smith surviving and kicking alien ass in Independence Day (and don’t tell me that isn’t a disaster movie), but after reading JuanitaTech’s “code,” I just hope she was being very tongue-in-cheek there…
I emphatically was not being tongue-in-cheek. Let’s flesh this out, shall we. According to the website to which monstro linked, no black males ever survive a Schwarzenegger movie. This, gentle reader, is neither a coincidence nor to be taken lightly.
Arnie is now Governor of California. Do I have to tell you how easy it is to hop from Hollywood actor to Governor of California to President of the United States? Sure, there’s that pesky second Article of the Constitution thingy but that can (and will) be taken care of right quickly. Once he’s elected to the Office of President he’ll try to, well, just see the code. Right after he makes Tafelspitz the national dish of the U.S.
The conspiracy is real, folks.
You do have a point, JuanitaTech.
In “Predator”, the monster is being chased by Arnold, Jesse Ventura, and Carl Weathers. Even though Weathers is the only one who can act, who does the monster get first? Right. No justice. He might as well have worn a red shirt. At least the T. Rex in “Jurassic Park” went for the lawyer first.
But let’s expand the field, to a round dozen, as in The Dirty Dozen", played by Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker, Tom Busby, Ben Carruthers, Stuart Cooper, and Robert Phillips. One black dude and one Puerto Rican, the rest all observed the Caucasian faith. Without seeing the movie, you can guess who gets picked to cross the Nazis’ field of fire first, and it isn’t the Puerto Rican.
“Glory”? The whole damn picture is about getting the blacks killed instead of the whites.
Then there’s this choice dialogue from “South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut”:
Come to think of it, the usual Arnold movie has pretty much *everyone * else getting killed so he can face the final battle dramatically alone. It may be unfair to single out the blacks.
It occurs to me that Jim Brown didn’t make it home from “Ice Station Zebra” either, but I’m not sure he got nailed first. It did happen early, though. Helluva way to treat the greatest back in NFL history - I can’t think of a flick where he *did * get to see the closing credits.
Actually, in Predator Jesse gets it first. Also, Jim Brown survives in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka. In fact, every black good guy in that entire movie survives.
I’ll bet you a thousand Republic credits that he doesn’t make it through Episode 3.
In Predator 2, Danny Glover lives while the entire team lead by Gary Busey dies.
In Surviving the Game, Ice-T kills all of his white enemies.
Djimon Hounsou outlives Russel Crowe in Gladiator.
Did any of those black guys in South Park actually get killed?
I forgot to say something about this one. Sure, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, and that MP (Whomever) may have been the only survivors, but you will note that all but Marvin and the MP were in jail. 10 of 12 were white, and they were all in jail. On Death Row, no less.
So much for the making the black man look bad in that movie. In fact, Savalas looked like a total dick with his drooling, leering child-molesting, woman-hating, race-baiting, psychopathic behavior. Jim Brown came out looking like a champ.
I don’t want to dredge up memories by finding the script, but I do remember Chef making a big speech about how they all have to do their job and play their part (or some pseudo-patriotic stuff like that). And then they all leg it, leaving the white guys to get shot up. I thought that whole thing was kind of amusing, unlike much of the film.
Yeah, that’s what I remember too. Seems to me they were portrayed as the clever ones, and all of them lived.
Doesn’t he live in Mars Attacks too?
Firstly, to Otto. Thanks to your link I need to change my top.
So I should put the Rubik’s cube down then, huh?
The black guy always gets it because it is normally only one black guy. It not racism when they kill him off, it just racism when they don’t cast any more black characters. While it’s the black characters that get killed off, has there ever been a psychotic killer yet that hasn’t been white?
Samuel Jackson in Unbreakable.
As long as he don’t go down like some punk!
Eh, he’ll be back, he’s due to appear in The Incredibles in November…
Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man.
And don’t forget the less-than-cuddly Michael Clarke Duncan in Daredevil, though Colin Farell got all the good psycho dialog.
How about Slaughter? Not only did he live, but he got to hump Stella Stevens!
You know I hate to get analytical in such a light hearted thread, but I have actually read some interesting books on this topic. Many scholars indicate that the early role of blacks in American cinema was clouded in racism. This is undeniable. When blacks as a group started to become more prolific in movie roles, they were typically given the “sympathetic sidekick” or “extra” slot. There was still great reservation about giving blacks lead roles, or romantic lead roles- which in part existed even into modern movie making. Thus, since they were not the lead, or top actor, they were typically killed off in violence based movies. Just like any other side actor.
Henceforth, the general trend was exhibited in many movies because there was a general trend in the entire country. Thus, the level of dead black actors in movies was proportionate to the number of lead black actors (only inversely). Furthermore, one tended not to notice all the white carnage in movies, but pay attention to blacks dying because there were so few blacks represented in large roles. Thus, the appearance of a disproportionate targetting of minorities for death in the cinema.