Why didn't one of the most influential characters in cinema history come off as pandering?

It seems that in cinema today people are always looking to be progressive and have have characters simply as window dressing, why did Morpheus break the mold?

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the role of Morpheus was offered to Sean Connery before this dude, Connery turned it down to make League of Extraordinary Gentleman, which flopped.

It was before blacks were injected into every role possible besides female love interest. It didn't seem like he was there just for "diversity" as is the case with many more recent noticeable castings

shut up zoomer

remember the scene where the traitor eats that steak? that dude was the common normie of 1999

Because Laurence Fishburne is an end of the bell curve high IQ black with fantastic acting abilities and comprehension of the philosophical basis of the story.

Movies from that era had diversity but they also had good or fun plots, were entertaining to watch, etc. Memorable.

because racism hasn't been a real issue in cinema since the 70s but leftists can't stop beating a dead horse.

Cause Morpheus is cool as fuck.

honestly i think fishburn was the better choice

>It seems that in cinema today people are always looking to be progressive and have have characters simply as window dressing, why did Morpheus break the mold?

Because critical race theory and intersectional feminism in universities hadn't spawned a bunch of ideologues and sent them into the media industries yet to cram shit down people's throats.

>the role of Morpheus was offered to Sean Connery

That would have been terrible

Go back to jackdurden.com

I liked him in Event Horizon too. I also hate niggers.

seriously, can you imagine him in all those slo-mo scenes?
fucking terrible.

Because his roll in the movie was not for "diversity" sake, he was there because he was a competent actor that helped to tell an entertaining story.

Because he's not a rap-listening basketball-playing stereotype.

A good character is a good character no matter what they look like

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This.
Back then movies from 1995-2012 were not cucked and you did not see forced diversity at all.
You could watch a movie with a nigger in it and wouldn't really think," OMG A NIGGER", but you would just see the character he/she was portraying.
And they were pretty good actors too, unlike the niggers of today which suck at acting.

Writers focus more on marxist propaganda than good stories these days

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They're trying to social engineer us using every means possible. They sacrifice quality for programming.

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They will literally fire good writers and keep subversive kikes just to keep doubling down on this marxist agenda

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Anything that makes someone feel good, independent, and capable as an individual is not allowed. It's all about the collective.

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The role could be anyone cause his blackness wasn't essential. Now you need the character to interject their race and orientation every other sentence.

JUST

The Matrix wasn't about race. Him playing Morpheus didn't change anything about the character.

Because at no point was his skin color mentioned. That wasn't the focal point of his character

They need everyone to be easily labelled and put in boxes. They remove our identities as individuals to keep us constrained by the so-called "group". In reality the "groups" opinions are coming from hidden hands.

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Most of the stuff in the 80s wasn't pandering either. Think Star Wars or Predator.

Individualistically Fishy was good and no one can deny him of that and once something is done. It is done that is it.

Because he got the role due to having talent and not from being black

agreed.
i suppose it is not fair to judge connery on a performance he did not get the opportunity to make.

Because back then they picked actors based on their abilities and created characters that make sense and fit into the movie instead of having a diversity checklist.

But was it? I heared the (((Wachowski)))...siblings originally intended Neo to be played by Will Smith and Moarpheus would make him WOKE on the SYSTEM keeping a brotha down. So it would have been black Neos travel to wake up from the dream of white supremacy and get real with tha crew!

Being black in now way affected his character. He was a man. Who happened to be black. His blackness was as important to the character as his baldness. Plus fishburne is a solid actor for role and a solid performance can make you forget anything. For instance him being black.

Because he seemed like a normal guy. He wasn’t a black hero or a black leader, he was just a man.

He’s kinda like Thomas Sowell. He isn’t a based black guy, he’s a based guy that happens to be black. Also, the late 90s-mid 2000s saw a big drop off PCness after the shit show that was the rest of the 90s, so, less pandering

If Lawrence is Rh Negative then please don't call him black. He would be more related to a White person. He is a creamy brother like Obongo and Freeman. Both Rh Negatives because they had nigger lover parents. I'm just saying. Oh and thank my race why you got some human blood now Fishburn. Its the only way it can get there!


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That version doesn't exist so it's not what is being discussed. Unfortunately, if we ever got some sort of Matrix follow up I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes about race and gender.

because he's a good actor and his character was well written, instead of him just being put there so they could have a nog in the marketing

> blacks
> being men
um no
But he portrayed his character well

I thought you meant sean bean for a sec there
>eyup lad this is thu metrix fooking shite here like fooking ehgents

Only Whites can be rh-, rh- blood is only found in Europe, mainly with the Basque people.

Not if a Rh Neg male breeds a Rh + female the baby will gestate and out come out as hybrid. Typically as a Rh Negative. If a Rh Neg like a O- Female breeds with a Rh+ blood like a Negroid. Their body will try to kill the fetus naturally because it's an affliction.

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> Him playing Morpheus didn't change anything about the character
It did. It was the magical negroid archetype

'In the cinema of the United States, the Magical Negro is a supporting stock character who comes to the aid of white protagonists in a film. Magical Negro characters, who often possess special insight or mystical powers, have long been a tradition in American fiction'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro

Had he been white, it would have been the 'wise old man' archetype, like obi wan kenobi, or gandalf

Totally different implications. The wise old (white)man archetype is an element within the white man's own pyche. The magical negroid isn't. They fuck with the archetypes and subvert them on purpose. IT MATTERS.

It's been one of (((((((((their))))))))) main weapons of subversion

yeah and it wasn't shoved down our throats, and also the main characters where made in the image of the creator of the story, insted of worrying if they their cast is diverse enough. Avatar the last airbender movie had all sort of diversity, but it flopped, because one of the reasons is they couldn't get the races right. Fans expected it to be mostly Asian people playing the role since it resembles that in the cartoon series.

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morpheus worked because it was a futuristic scifi taking place on earth where all the characters live in a fake NYC so of course there would be black people. he is also obviously of north African and not sub saharan descent which is much more bearable than ghetto wise chrackin baboon looking mother fuckers like Finn in SJW SW.

his character also had zero, zip, nada to do with some racial struggle bullshit. he never mentioned or talked about race at all. he wasnt a racist character. he wasnt put there to 'make a point' and i dont remember ANY bullshit press releases about how great it is that hes black and in a movie. he also had no ham fisted virtue signalling dialog. he was just a good actor playing a character in a interesting scifi film.

it was a better time.

The point is that niggers do not have RH_ blood
Only Whites have this blood type, you know who else had the same exact blood type?
Jesus Christ, rh- blood was found on the shroud of turin.

>It's been one of (((((((((their))))))))) main weapons of subversion

You cannot blame Lawrence individualistically for niggers and their culture because he is a good man and probably has more True Israelite Blood than most Kikes these days. He is special like Neo was for a reason. Even if he has Negro genes he isn't fully a Negro it was good for him anyway.

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The lack of ebonics and lack of a constant chip on his shoulder makes him a likable actor as opposed to the generic black man. He doesn't excuse a racial stereotype so it's hard to label him like that. He was in Apocolypse Now as well

>the main characters where made in the image of the creator of the story, insted of worrying if they their cast is diverse enough.

Exude not excuse

This. He was a combination of the magic negro and kung-fu master.

They would have had to re-write everything so that Morpheus could be killed off.

"We don't know who shhtruck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that shhcorched the sshky.

ill proof read better next time.

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Wrong. He was the magical negro archetype. Very specific reasons for jews doing what they do. Nothing is willy nilly. Everything is decided and picked in advance by some careful (((hand))) for a very specific assault on the psyche and to mess with the archetypes. They do it to blacks as well. They do it to all races.

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That is because TRUE ISRAELITES have only Rh Negative blood but people intermixed like Lawrence's parents as a matter of fact. It does make his Rh Negative blood tainted with Cain blood. That is a fact but he is probably still a Rh Negative. Its why he doesn't have charcoal black skin and has a demeanor which intelligent White people and even the Rh positive White ones can relate to. Stop calling Oreo's black. That is all I'm saying. Call them creamy instead.

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>Only Whites
Im an arab and I have Rh- blood. Im not mixed either, both parents are arab

arabs are just ancient mulattos

>The term Magical Negro was popularized in 2001 by film director Spike Lee
>((((Spike Lee)))
Are you sure you aren't following the line of thought of the Tariq Nasheed of (((Holly Wood)))? Although it's indeed rather unlikely that a movie by two Jewish trannies that was intended to be a "WOKE" film until Will Smith declined could indeed be actually race blind.

lawl Imagine the projection of the Amerifats calling Europeans "Abdul" and Mohammed

Its where we come from th Middle East. I'm related to you and I live in the US. Half my family is Celtic.

These actors are all freemasons and traitors to their respective races. Sympathize with none of them. Lionize none of them. Idealize none of them. Project good intent on none of them. Project good intentions on none of them. Project your subconscious archetypical concept of a hero on to none of these hollywood actors.

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Those are good names don't tarnish them.

Because the actor fit and played the role right, it wasn't a race replacement role like niggers in King Arthur or playing fucking SWEDISH GODS, WE WUZ ROMANS! SHIEEEET! His character also wasn't written to be a soft tier propaganda piece. "*Smacks lips* Yo, white boi I'm da leader here dis white women sucks muh dick."

is Laurence Fishburne white?

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Same thing with Lawrence. Out with the same old stale bubblegum garbage (Smith) and in with the nuances of a better actor on a whole host of levels quite frankly (Reeves). They fucking lucked out actually or the movie would have been gay like the creators.

No but he might be Rh Negative and not really a nigger.

is reeves really a better actor though?

I'm not the one using them, Abdul. But your countrymen! LAWL

No. Remember he was in boyz in the hood, or maybe it was don't be a menace. But regardless he's a damn good actor.

Symbolism is different than pandering. Very few people have any proper understanding of symbolism so they only care about more obvious things which is why Morpheus was near universally liked or at least accepted.

definatly... he has a new movie coming out too

Fishburn and Morgan Freeman are indeed two of my favorite actors. Really great craftsmen.
>inb4 Morgan Freeman plays Thomas Sowell

>The Matrix was 20 years ago

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morgan freeman? IDK? He's ok.

I'm 99% sure you're thinking about Ian McKellan as Gandalf, not Morpheus

It flopped because it was hot shamalayan garbage.

This is why the movie was so special. It all dealt with symbolism and the actors set the tone during the first movie. They made it cynically dark but with a bright light off in the distance. Lawrence was a part of that light and he portrayed it.

O M G! IT'S JUST LIKE THOSE DRUMPTARDS! WOOOOOOOOOOOOW

Because he was exactly right for that particular role. He wasn't Samuel L being jammed into the role of Mace Dindu.

because the human mind is fascinated about "knowing about things that are going to happen" before they actually happen.

biologically the human brain is wired to love the whole idea of a "Prophet" or Oracle. its always been this way for thousands of years. its almost as if whoever made mankind wanted man to pay attention to prophets or something. so strange.

It wasn't supposed to be woke. Look at their idealized society which was I believe called zion. It was a city comprised of mongrelized dionysian imbeciles. That is what they see as the future. Miscegenated entities of indeterminable ethnicities. Female heros. All the villains, those dudes with agent smith, were white. Magical nigress character, the oracle. etc. Totally subversive.

Watch this vid. It's a revelation of the method by one who would know. Consume no more hollywood than you already have. Take no more of their programming into your psyche. Nothing is by accident. Everything is subversive.
youtube.com/watch?v=gSV35A1cQDM

Yeah, since Seven. Where the Christian anti-hero/villain was also made to have a point. Fit into the decadent and nihilistic 90s

It was still in line with the wise black man teaches whitey to be better meme that was popular at the time.

There's nothing different about Morpheus compared to any ethnic characters nowadays. If you watch the Matrix trilogy it is not difficult to see that the casting was done in a way so as to portray whites as weak and fragile. The Zion elders are all white. Young white male characters are betas. Alpha characters are ethnic.

If there is one difference it would be that Fishburne is actually worth his salt as an actor, with Kenneth Branagh's Othello being a good example of this.

I literally could not give 2 shits about what ethnicity the actors are. One is right to emphasise that it is not so much the race of the actors and cast that is at issue in many cases, but the fact that the movie is simply badly written and acted. I will not attempt to link the degradation of writing and film-making to demographic changes in our society.

Whatever dude. Tarantino made snuff torture porn for a sadistic, predatory Jew who preyed on "shiksas" and in which a white, blonde and blue eyed German was executed by the bear Jew as a stand-in for the white race.

Anything ends after that. Including this discussion.

It effects the unconscious. The personal unconsciousness. That's the point. The reason it's called the unconscious is because you are not conscious of the effect it's having on you. You are looking at things at a mega normie and simpleton level. And you are prob a nigger.

No shit idiot. I wasn't saying I like tarentino. I was saying he would know because he is himself a subverter. And I didn't watch his anti-german shit because I don't give these scum access to my psyche anymore because I am not a self sadistic dummy like you, and I wouldn't watch his anti-white shit. I have watched ZERO of their shit in years. Now KYS for being such a dumbass to think I was endorsing tarentino.

>Writers focus more on marxist propaganda than good stories these days

It's all they focus on these days. Shit's everywhere.

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>The average Jow Forumstard
What do you say? Drink bleach, I suppose

Neo was offered to Will Smith who did Wild Wild West instead lol

Because at no point does the fact that Morpheus is black become relevant.

Will Smith turned the role of Neo down, Keanu Reeves was the second choice.

Because his whole character wasn't based around being black. It was based around awakening Neo and guiding him to the truth. Opening his eyes. He wasn't there to say "Look at me! I am a perfectly capable black man!"

Best answer.

The Matrix *burp* now that was a movie.

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so if a nigger does have RH neg blood, what does it mean?

You're seeing things through the wrong type of glasses. Morpheus's race isn't important to who Morpheus is; that's good writing 101. A person of color, a woman, whatever you want, can be an engaging and wonderful character, but they just like real and engaging people, can't be defined by arbitrary rules like race.

If Morpheus's sole character was just "He's a zen blackman", that's terrible.