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Danny Boyle wouldn't make Slumdog Millionaire today due to cultural appropriation
Posted on 6/20/25 at 7:10 am
Posted on 6/20/25 at 7:10 am
For those of you who don't remember, Slumdog Millionaire starred Dev Patel and Freida Pinto and won 8 Oscars (including Best Picture).
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Reflecting on his 2008 Best Picture winner in an interview with The Guardian, Boyle said the film, about a Mumbai ghetto kid (Dev Patel) who wins a quiz jackpot, would be difficult to mount — and for good reasons.
“We wouldn’t be able to make that now,” the 28 Years Later director said. “And that’s how it should be. It’s time to reflect on all that. We have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we’ve left on the world.”
Asked if he felt the production was a form of colonialism, Boyle responded: “No, no … Well, only in the sense that everything is. At the time it felt radical. We made the decision that only a handful of us would go to Mumbai. We’d work with a big Indian crew and try to make a film within the culture. But you’re still an outsider. It’s still a flawed method.”
He continued: “That kind of cultural appropriation might be sanctioned at certain times. But at other times it cannot be. I mean, I’m proud of the film, but you wouldn’t even contemplate doing something like that today. It wouldn’t even get financed. Even if I was involved, I’d be looking for a young Indian film-maker to shoot it.”
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Posted on 6/20/25 at 7:13 am to RollTide1987
What a loser.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 7:18 am to RollTide1987
More evidence TDK should’ve won
Posted on 6/20/25 at 7:24 am to RollTide1987
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“We wouldn’t be able to make that now,” the 28 Years Later director said. “And that’s how it should be. It’s time to reflect on all that. We have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we’ve left on the world.”
What the frick does this even mean? Cultural baggage? What a self-flagellating coward.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 7:27 am to RollTide1987
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I’m proud of the film
Ok so why does the rest even matter?
Why does it matter if a non-Indian directed the film?
Posted on 6/20/25 at 7:33 am to RollTide1987
From now on, you can only make movies or write books about your own race. Sounds like a good idea Danny.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 7:35 am to RollTide1987
Appropriation?
How?
How?
Posted on 6/20/25 at 8:48 am to RollTide1987
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Asked if he felt the production was a form of colonialism, Boyle responded: “No, no … Well, only in the sense that everything is.
Here it is folks. This is what we’re dealing with.
He literally just said everything is racist.
There is no way to change or rehabilitate that mentality.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 8:51 am to Cockopotamus
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He literally just said everything is racist.
He literally didn't.
Colonialism =/= racism
Not to mention that his answer was "No" it wasnt a form of colonialism unless you stretched the definition.
This post was edited on 6/20/25 at 8:54 am
Posted on 6/20/25 at 9:01 am to Corinthians420
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Colonialism =/= racism
Oh it absolutely is in the way it’s used here. Colonialism is only ever used in regards to white people doing a thing involving non white people.
I can’t believe there are people who still justify this nonsense. This strangling of art and self-flagellation.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 9:03 am to Cockopotamus
Of course it’s easy for him to say he wouldn’t make the movie now. After he’s made money and fame.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 9:15 am to biglego
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Of course it’s easy for him to say he wouldn’t make the movie now. After he’s made money and fame.
Can't forget to pull that ladder up behind you.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 9:47 am to biglego
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Oh it absolutely is in the way it’s used here.
Ok even if you take how he used it there and replace the word colonialism with racism his answer was still "no".
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Asked if he felt the production was a form of racism, Boyle responded: “No, no … Well, only in the sense that everything is.
So he didnt literally say it was racism. He literally said no it wasnt.
You fragile permanently offended folks are so tiresome with your constant whining about everything.
This post was edited on 6/20/25 at 9:49 am
Posted on 6/20/25 at 9:56 am to Corinthians420
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Ok even if you take how he used it there and replace the word colonialism with racism his answer was still "no".
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Asked if he felt the production was a form of racism, Boyle responded: “No, no … Well, only in the sense that everything is.
So he didnt literally say it was racism. He literally said no it wasnt.
Well, at first he says "No," but then he hedges and says that "everything is." So which is it?
Posted on 6/20/25 at 9:58 am to Saint Alfonzo
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Well, at first he says "No," but then he hedges and says that "everything is." So which is it?
He doesn't say everything is. He says its only colonialism in the sense that everything is.
So unless you are working in the sense that everything is colonialism, the movie isnt.
Are you working in the sense that everything is colonialism?
This post was edited on 6/20/25 at 10:08 am
Posted on 6/20/25 at 10:07 am to Corinthians420
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He doesn't say everything is. He says its only colonialism in the sense that everything is.
So unless you are working in the sense that everything is colonialism, the movie isnt.
Are you working in the sense that everything is colonialism?
I'm just going by what the dude said, he clearly sends a mixed message. Either it is or it isn't. He wants to bring attention to the "cultural baggage" of colonialism, but the movie he's proud of but wouldn't make again is exempt from his own condemnation. He doesn't know what he wants to say, only that he wants to virtue signal about appropriation. It's something a moron would say and other morons would defend.
This post was edited on 6/20/25 at 10:08 am
Posted on 6/20/25 at 10:12 am to Saint Alfonzo
Really only a moron would read what he said and then say
But that guy doesn't want to know what the guy said, only that he wants to virtue signal
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He literally just said everything is racist.
But that guy doesn't want to know what the guy said, only that he wants to virtue signal
Posted on 6/20/25 at 10:19 am to Corinthians420
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Really only a moron would read what he said and then say
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He literally just said everything is racist.
I didn't say that, I said he sent a mixed message. "No, no," followed by "well, everything is" lacks clarity and coherence. He can't make the movie now, but when he did make it, cultural appropriation was ok. It's a self-serving virtue signal devoid of any logic or thought.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 10:39 am to Saint Alfonzo
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I didn't say that
A guy in this thread did.
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, I said he sent a mixed message. "No, no," followed by "well, everything is" lacks clarity and coherence
He didnt say "well, everything is"
You missed some crucial elements in the sentence.
Lets take another example using the same sentence structure to clarify.
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Asked if he felt that Michael Phelps was a slow swimmer, Boyle responded: “No, no … Well, only in the sense that everyone is.
He is saying if you change the framing then you could argue it, but he isn't doing that. He is answering from a basic POV that no it isnt a form a Colonialism. If someone has changed the framing Michael Phelps could be slow.... next to a jet ski or a blue marlin.
He is trying to avoid getting drug into that entire debate by acknowledging that under some peoples' concept of colonialism (that "everything is colonialism") it could be seen that way.
This post was edited on 6/20/25 at 10:47 am
Posted on 6/20/25 at 10:39 am to RollTide1987
So does this mean Bollywood is culturally appropriating Hollywood?
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