African American Role In Hollywood Film

Although in these films, the main characters did not explicitly question about why God was Black, but a Black God is as a rare thing. We know that Christian’s God was Jesus Christ and He was a Hebrew that physically is light-skinned. Also when we are talking about American movie, Hollywood was still dominated by White actors and actress. The appearance of an important character which played by Black people was created many arguments about African American role in 21st century Hollywood movie. Mostly African American important character was role as the helper for the White. They are also appears as a symbol of equality in an American movie. African American appears to give a picture that Black people can also involve in a Hollywood production …show more content…
African American stereotype that mostly depicted as a bad character still become a consideration to the creator in making a film. Until the early of 21st century, Hollywood movie that involve African American actors or actress only gives them role as the secondary. Although in the recent years, Black hero starts to come up in the Hollywood movie, but if we look at the production team, it was created by the African American. It means that African American hero can only exist in the African American production movie. However, the role of African American who played as the character of God in Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty give several ideas about the representation of Black people in the Hollywood movie. But before that, we need to know how the African American depicted in those films. Is this Black God describing as an anger God or a benevolent one? Then, what are the functions of African American who played as a God in these films. Is this only a character to help the others or only focuses to help the White? I will use Post-colonialism theory to analyze the depiction and function of Magical Negro in these two