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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
We can bash this all we want, but there is no denying that if the film had been green lit to film in a national park the media would be running the exact opposite story and aboriginal rights groups would be up in arms that our national parks service, and by association both the federal and provincial governments, are complicit yet again in propagating the stereotype that all aboriginals are criminals.
There would have to be an inquiry, a lot of hand wringing, tv appearances by band leaders etc.
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I'm not sure about that. It's just art, and isn't intended as a social commentary indicating the aboriginal are bad people and do bad things. If Parks Canada is cautious about doing
vice roles due to risking being offensive, I think they're being over sensitive, which patronizing to aboriginals.
Let's say this movie had a black guy as the gang leader instead; if they denied filming because of that, we would be saying that it's ridiculous, since there's been a billion films where that's been the case, and there hasn't been blacklash about it. Because it's not giving the message that all black people are drug dealers. (Although some people may think that, but that's a different discussion...)
If a film is going to have a villain, it's likely the character may be in a role that portrays negative traits. Parks Canada shouldn't think the optics of an aboriginal doing such role looks bad, when they wouldn't have an issue with any other race doing it.
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
I do find it kind of comically ironic that the Revenant is an Academy Award-winning film that portrayed Aboriginals as dangerous and was shot in multiple provincial parks. They were even allowed to execute controlled avalanches for filming.
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So aboriginals being dangerous is good, but them being gangsters is bad. It's a slippery slope when one is good, but the other is not.