THOU SHALT NOT STEAL, THOU SHALT NOT COVET

In the last few years, possibly more, there has been a raft of movies whose titles were borrowed -in one case, slightly altered so that the hero of the movie would be an African American. This is outright stealing and also shows a lack of originality. Although movies such as The Front Page were also done in various versions, they were not redone for the purpose so those of a certain ethnic group would say that that was the only movie made. Even in the case of movies such as The Magnificent Sevenreference that it was a western version of The Seven Samuriwas stated, not so in the movies made to reflect an African American or Black hero. The former were redone to update the date, and time, not to make an African American, Chinese, or whatever to associate the movie with their ethnic group. This is not the first time. How many people know that Martin Luther originally referred not to the man who led the Civil Rights movement, but to the former monk who started the Protestant Reformation? Unless you are a Christian, not many.

Below is a list of three of the movies redone to let the African Americans be the heroes and I doubt any of them played the villain.

Original: The Bishop's Wife: Remade: The Preacher's Wife
Original: Doctor Doolittle Remade: Doctor Doolittle
The Manchurian Candidate Remade: The Manchurian Candidate

Now The Manchurian Candidate may have been brilliantly written, even got three out of five stars — a major accomplishment, but unlike the others which just changed all the characters into Blacks or African Americans, it makes the hero played by Denzel Washington, an African American who goes against the villain and villainess who are white — another case of "we Blacks are morally superior than you whites who are more inclined to commit crimes against your country, etc." And that is the case here. It would have been better if in this remake, the villain and villainess were of the same ethnic group as the hero. But then again, 'don't make us the bad guys, always make us the good guys.' At least James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman played villains and for that they showed courage. Also before the present political correctness, other Black actors played shady or morally bankrupt,even bullies and cowards. Where is that courage now? Sadly lacking.