My black co-worker asked me today to reccomend him a white people movie, and he’d give me a black people movie.
At first I reccomended Live Die Repeat (also known as Edge of Tomorrow) then remembered Wes Anderson exists and said anything by him maybe.
He reccomended Salt and The Tourist. I intend to watch them on the weekend.
My vote for the whitest movie of all time is Metropolitan (1990). I enjoyed it, but i feel embarrassed recommending it. From Wikipedia:
Metropolitan (1990 film)
1990 film by Whit Stillman
Metropolitan is a 1990 American romantic comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Whit Stillman, in his feature directorial debut. The film concerns the lives of a group of wealthy young socialites during debutante season in Manhattan. In addition to some of their debutante parties, it covers their frequent informal after-hours gatherings at a friend’s Upper East Side apartment, where they discuss life, philosophy and their fate; form attachments, romances and intrigues; and react to an interesting but less well-to-do newcomer.
Quick facts Directed by, Written by …
Metropolitan was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 63rd Academy Awards.[4] The film is often considered the first of a trilogy of Stillman films set in the 1980s and portraying privileged young adults, followed chronologically by The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Barcelona (1994).[5]
White people movie: Death at a Funeral (2007)
Black people movie: Death at a Funeral (2010)
Bonus fun: Peter Dinklage plays the same character in both.
How about Casablanca? It’s black and white.
Steel Magnolias is the whittest movie ever made.
Maybe some white apologist shit like El Torino for a guy. That’s a pretty good one.
Watched both with my Asian wife.
“Really! That’s exactly how women in Mississippi are!”
She loved Grand Torino as well. (That’s what you meant, right?)
Grand Torino! That’s the one!
The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Only my whitest friends emphatically recommend this movie and make any references to it. I don’t think I’ve ever met a non-white person who’s watched it. If they have, they never bring it up!
Oh that’s pretty damn white.
So white it’s British
White movie: The Princess Bride
Black movie: Poetic Justice. Also, since the holidays are coming up, The Holiday and The Best Man.
Also, your coworker likes Angelina Jolie and that’s all their picks mean. It’s like they didn’t even understand the question
Oh god this coworker is a lot of fun but he kinda way off in right-field most of the time mentally.
Die Hard and Caddyshack come to mind as white people movies.
I actually forgot that I said Die Hard first but he’d seen it. 😂 Caddyshack is I think the best suggestion so far!
For a white movie, I’d recommend Office Space from 1999. It’s one of my all time favorites
White people movie: Cruel Intentions (incredibly privileged and wealthy people being horrible to each other for no reason other than they can)
Black people movie: His House (South Sudanese refugees adapting to their new lives in England experiencing racism and hostility, oh and their house is haunted)
White Chicks. Then you’ve got both bases covered.
White Men Can’t Jump may cover both bases as well. :)
I’ve gotten that answer a lot in person too. I totally agree. 😂
White: The LOTR original trilogy
Black: Coming to America, They Cloned Tyrone, Get Out (gave 3 movies since the trilogy is technically 3 movies)
Bonus
Asian: Kung Fu Hustle, Old Boy (very dark thriller warning), Spirited Away
Hispanic: Instructions Not Included, Coco, Pan’s Labyrinth
I’d be quite irritated if I offered to “trade” movies with someone and I gave them an 80 minute comedy and was told to watch a 12+ hour trilogy, lol. They are indeed white movies though.
Source: half-white LotR nerd
Sorry To Bother You is an amazing movie with a scene that will make any white person uncomfortable (in a good way). Bonkers cast too.
Somehow that movie was aytoplaying while I was asleep. I woke up at the very end when the symptoms show. I was thoroughly confused but intrigued.
I love that movie so fucking much. It saddens me that I will never again experience the thrill of watching it with a white person (many white people in fact) in a movie theatre. I’m not sure I’d want to because it made me feel physically ill but what a thrill.
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Live Die Repeat is Japanese though, I don’t get the “whiteness” in it, personally. IMO, some great “white people” movies, understood as Anglo-Saxon/Germanic/Nordic (else I’d have to include Spanish, French and Italian which certainly have a very different vibe), could be “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, “In Bruges” or “Master and Commander”.
The whitest film I’ve ever seen is Christopher Guest’s Best in Show (2000).
I don’t think you can outdo John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood (1991), but I think the most universally agreed upon movie that black people enjoy is actually Love and Basketball (2000).
I’d argue that A Mighty Wind is even whiter.
I would argue the yuppie couple alone puts Best in Show as the whiter movie
The folk music in A Mighty Wind may be greater than the Swans’ screen time. And that music is extremely white.
But the meltdown over Busy Bee can definitely count for double.
