Board Thread:Movies/@comment-4651179-20140124221431/@comment-1895174-20140702231624

Matt Seay wrote: Are they making Sue and Johnny Half-siblings or something because they have not said anything about it. I mean if they are then it doesn't make any sense to change Johnny black and have Sue be White, even if their parents are an interracial couple Johnny would not be a fully black......but that is a little thing and too many of these little things are gonna bring this movie down for me It's a weird situation. On one hand, they want to include an African-American character. The logic of having to change the race of a character from the source material is faulty in my opinion, but that's what they went with. On the other hand, Hollywood is still uncomfortable making a movie where the core romance is between one white character and one black character without making the whole movie about that, so Sue had to be White.

So we have a mildly racist situation created out of the studio trying to avoid accusations of racism. Success?