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Glava · 03-10-2005, 11:10 AM

Before anyone takes offense at the studio's refusal to have an all-black couple, I would like to point out that the reasons are purely economic. As the article said, such a pairing would be less popular in the areas where the film is screened (including the US), and the studio, being a for-profit enterprise, has money as its top interest. The reason for the societal bias toward the preference of seeing people of their own race in movies is because they are able to identify with them easier, llike it or not. Based on the population of the United States and other countries where this will be screened (probably mostly in Europe, but don't ask me for figures), most of the viewers will be white, so the company decided that profit would be maximized by not having two black people be linked romantically.

I am somewhat guilty of this as well. Though Hitch isn't in my interests regardless of the casting, porn is. I wouldn't mind watching an Asian or black woman in porn, but I'd be turned off if the guy was black or Asian. It's harder for me, a white person, to identify with non-white men in porn (as if I could identify with white men with 8 inch dicks), and after all, that's the reason why guy/girl porn is watched, anyway.

03-10-2005, 11:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
Glava Betitled	Before anyone takes offense at the studio's refusal to have an all-black couple, I would like to point out that the reasons are purely economic. As the article said, such a pairing would be less popular in the areas where the film is screened (including the US), and the studio, being a for-profit enterprise, has money as its top interest. The reason for the societal bias toward the preference of seeing people of their own race in movies is because they are able to identify with them easier, llike it or not. Based on the population of the United States and other countries where this will be screened (probably mostly in Europe, but don't ask me for figures), most of the viewers will be white, so the company decided that profit would be maximized by not having two black people be linked romantically. I am somewhat guilty of this as well. Though Hitch isn't in my interests regardless of the casting, porn is. I wouldn't mind watching an Asian or black woman in porn, but I'd be turned off if the guy was black or Asian. It's harder for me, a white person, to identify with non-white men in porn (as if I could identify with white men with 8 inch dicks), and after all, that's the reason why guy/girl porn is watched, anyway. Last edited by Glava; 03-10-2005 at 11:29 AM..