Is Actress Kerry Washington Making A Mistake For Agreeing To Star in Quentin Tarantino’s Slave Film Django Unchanied?
According to the website Deadline.com, actress Kerry Washington has agreed to star in Quentin Tarantino’s controversial slavery film Django Unchained. Django Unchained will be released in December 2012.
Kerry’s character Broomhilda, will be raped by white men multiple times in the film. According to the Django Unchained script, there are suggestions that Broomhilda is “in love” with a white male slave master.
Is this really possible? Could a white slave master really fall in love with his female slave? The black female slaves had no choice they either slept with the white male slave master or they were murdered. I don’t think it was “love” at all.
Also, some black women during slavery wanted their slave children to obtain freedom so they slept with the white master.
In fact, Broomhilda will also appear nude in many scenes in the movie. I understand that interracial sex did occur during slavery because white men owned their black female slaves. I am not disputing that white men raped black women during slavery or had mixed race offspring.
However, I am concerned about Kerry’s decision to appear nude in the film and being raped multiple times by white men. Is Django Unchained just Quentin Tarantino’s racist sexual fantasy to treat the black female body as a sexual fetish for white men? I wonder, because Tarantino has a history of depicting black women in his movies in very sexualized and stereotypical roles.
Does Kerry really think appearing in a degrading film will launch her career to the A list? I wonder if Kerry has thought it through? Why would Kerry want to take on such a degrading role? Isn’t Kerry cognizant of how Hollywood stereotypes black female sexuality as licentious?
I also wonder, is a slave movie the best role a young black actress can get in Hollywood?
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I think it depends on how it’s played out. It would be unrealistic to sugar coat the fact that slaves were raped by their masters. This reminds me of the who fiasco when Hale Berry played the role in Monster’s Ball. Everyone seems to be ok when Black women are in degrading roles with other Black actors but it’s different when they are doing it with men of other races.
This article is stupid, if it wasn’t her, it would have been another Black actress, you don’t say no to a film with Tarantino,
Plus, there are so few films that depict slavery times, and all the atrocities that happened, that I m totally for this movie, y’all Black people are never happy
Actually, if a movie is racist and sexist against black women then I think a black actress should reject the role. The character Broomhilda is nude, she is raped multiple times by white men in Django Unchained. Yes, I acknowledge rape did occur during slavery. However, Tarantino doesn’t give Broomhilda any agency she’s just the victim. I don’t think nude rape scenes are going to help Kerry Washington’s career. I am worried because I don’t want Kerry to be exploited in a sexist and racist manner.
I’m wondering why The Weinstein Company and Quentin Tarantino chose not to highlight/emphasize/showcase/splash the rape and humiliation of Jewish (by German nazis) and Italian (by Allied soldiers) women during World War II in Inglorious Basterds. But then decided to satisfy demands “for authentic representation” of slavery with multiple rape scenes for the Black woman–and then refer to that Black rape victim as a prostitute and a pony in their marketing and propaganda for their fanboys. You didn’t see scenes like this in Defiance or Schindler’s List, but apparently The Weinstein Company feels it should be seen on an excessive and gratuitous level in Django Unchained.