{"id":2249,"date":"2020-01-06T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2020-01-03T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:42:13","slug":"i-love-that-this-was-shot-in-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2020\/01\/i-love-that-this-was-shot-in-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"I love that this was shot in Detroit\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026but hate that it\u2019s yet another sci-fi film shot in the bizarro Detroit that\u2019s mysteriously devoid of all Black people. WtF, dudes! \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kYUf-Qncss\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Do you know how hard it is to find great Black actors for an SF movie in Detroit?\u00a0 <strong><em>ZERO HARD! <\/em><\/strong>It\u2019s a huge city, there are several solid acting programs at the various colleges and universities there, plus an additional 700,000 people.[<strong>*<\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, not for nothing, but imagine how much more tightly on-theme <strong><em>this<\/em><\/strong> movie would have been if you highlighted race and consumption, rather than white-washing Detroit\u2014<strong><em>THE BLACKEST CITY IN AMERICA:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Cities-with-the-highest-percentage-of-black-or-African-American-people-1024x592.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Cities-with-the-highest-percentage-of-black-or-African-American-people-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Cities-with-the-highest-percentage-of-black-or-African-American-people-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Cities-with-the-highest-percentage-of-black-or-African-American-people-768x444.png 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Cities-with-the-highest-percentage-of-black-or-African-American-people-1200x693.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Cities-with-the-highest-percentage-of-black-or-African-American-people.png 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><small><strong>[*]<\/strong> Yes, I saw that there were a couple Black ladies in the background of one shot. But, c\u2019mon, dude, <em>please. <\/em>Incidentally, they weren\u2019t even credited; i.e., they were probably just a pair of ladies that happened to be wandering around. &#x1f644;<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026but hate that it\u2019s yet another sci-fi film shot in the bizarro Detroit that\u2019s mysteriously devoid of all Black people. WtF, dudes! \u00a0 Do you know how hard it is to find great Black actors for an SF movie in Detroit?\u00a0 ZERO HARD! It\u2019s a huge city, there are several solid acting programs at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2020\/01\/i-love-that-this-was-shot-in-detroit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I love that this was shot in Detroit\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[95,451,47,453,53,452,151],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}