Below is text copied from an email forwarded to me yesterday, by Vanessa of Fashion Dolls at Van's Doll Treasures.
After reading the above email, I googled, "George Lucas Red Tails," and found the following link, which verifies the difficulty Mr. Lucas experienced getting Red Tails funded.
http://www.reelz.com/movie-news/12838/george-lucas-talks-about-making-red-tails-in-hollywood/
Whether a movie, a manufactured item (such as a black doll), or any market item where the predominant influence is non-white, things are more often than not erroneously perceived as insignificant, without a profit margin. Financial backing is, therefore, usually nonexistent.
Your presence at movie theaters on January 20, 2012, (or some time during the premiere weekend) and making certain your ticket stub reads Red Tails, will prove those wrong who denied funding requests for this movie. I suppose, as Mr. Lucas put it, had Will Smith been in it (no offense to Will, but he is not the only talented AA male actor), or had it been full of buffoonery, funding would have been readily accessible. Mr. Lucas did not allow "No" to stop him, nor did it stop the Tuskegee Airmen during the 1940s.
Watch the Red Tails trailer:
Prior to receiving the forwarded email shared above, I had planned to write a post using my Tuskegee Airmen GI Joe action figures (Joes) as my "doll way" of promoting Red Tails starring Terrence Howard and a host of other talented actors. I even considered redressing my Terrence Howard look-a-like action figure in one of my Tuskegee Joe's uniforms. Consider this that post minus the intended redress.
Check out the following former posts that feature or include my Tuskegee Joes...
http://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/2010/10/gi-joe-tuskegee-airmen.html
http://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/2011/02/aa-history-museum-exhibit-ends-soon.html
http://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/2011/05/memorial-day-and-moment-of-remembrance.html
...and don't forget to see the movie.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATIONA friend was fortunate to see an advanced viewing of Red Tails.It's George Lucas' version of the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, 20 years in the making, and has a predominantly Black cast, all the main actors are Black. When the movie was finally ready for production, no production company would take it; as a result, George Lucas had to write a check. After production was completed, no distribution company would take it. So, George Lucas wrote another check.The advanced viewing was sponsored by Wells Fargo and the Museum for Black History Diaspora (not sure of the exact name). The movie is intriguing and has edge-of-your-seat action. It's well done, and certainly worth seeing. I'm urging all of you to see this movie, and tell others about it as well.Anything we can do to ensure large numbers of viewers in the first few days of release (scheduled for Jan. 20th) will make a statement to the production and distribution companies that WE ARE interested in SEEING this film, AND, that they made a miscalculation.If each of you tell as many people about this as you can, and attempt to take 4 or 5 people with you to see the film, that will be like a geometric progression, and could potentially push the numbers off the chart.
After reading the above email, I googled, "George Lucas Red Tails," and found the following link, which verifies the difficulty Mr. Lucas experienced getting Red Tails funded.
http://www.reelz.com/movie-news/12838/george-lucas-talks-about-making-red-tails-in-hollywood/
Whether a movie, a manufactured item (such as a black doll), or any market item where the predominant influence is non-white, things are more often than not erroneously perceived as insignificant, without a profit margin. Financial backing is, therefore, usually nonexistent.
Your presence at movie theaters on January 20, 2012, (or some time during the premiere weekend) and making certain your ticket stub reads Red Tails, will prove those wrong who denied funding requests for this movie. I suppose, as Mr. Lucas put it, had Will Smith been in it (no offense to Will, but he is not the only talented AA male actor), or had it been full of buffoonery, funding would have been readily accessible. Mr. Lucas did not allow "No" to stop him, nor did it stop the Tuskegee Airmen during the 1940s.
Watch the Red Tails trailer:
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Prior to receiving the forwarded email shared above, I had planned to write a post using my Tuskegee Airmen GI Joe action figures (Joes) as my "doll way" of promoting Red Tails starring Terrence Howard and a host of other talented actors. I even considered redressing my Terrence Howard look-a-like action figure in one of my Tuskegee Joe's uniforms. Consider this that post minus the intended redress.
Check out the following former posts that feature or include my Tuskegee Joes...
http://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/2010/10/gi-joe-tuskegee-airmen.html
http://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/2011/02/aa-history-museum-exhibit-ends-soon.html
http://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/2011/05/memorial-day-and-moment-of-remembrance.html
...and don't forget to see the movie.
