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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
And by the way, it isn't really from the perspective of one or the other. But the white guy is the lead as it is his family that fills in the time outside the two in the car. As depicted the piano player sits home by himself so how to change that up is not clear. It may be that that was not true, but if true, they couldn't have used his home life.
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Dude, I really think that your opinion and argument are completely colored by seeing the movie. The movie could have covered the musician's childhood to set up his weird character traits, his relationship with his parents, what happens to his career after the trip, a closer look at how he perceives the many white people he comes into contact with--including his driver--and how those views are reinforced or evolve. There are a
million choices that could have been made in a completely different way.
It's like you watched a movie about War Machine and said, "I suppose it could have been about Iron Man, but he wasn't in the military and was really just a rich playboy. I mean, sure he was a brilliant genius who made the suit, but he's so vain and his interactions with James Rhodes just don't warrant making a movie about him."
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