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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: OSCARS '75: The Man Who Would Be King
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CONTENT WARNING: Racism, colonialism, colonial attitudes, imperialism, depictions of brownface.
This is now the second time, in an Oscars series, in which an otherwise pretty fun movie was spoiled by massive, massive racism. Like, our two stars perform in brownface as Afghani villagers for a good chunk of the movie, and it's just treated as a plot point. It’s even worse because Sean Connery has a history of doing this on screen, and also, just, why? Because behind the layers of awful colonial ra...