Let's play #NameThatFilm!
It's okay to colonize land and sacred burial grounds of Indigenous peoples as long as you don't forget to move the bodies. #NameThatFilm
Never forget: white women can beat Asian women at their own cultural and martial arts when they wear the outfit of a Hong Kong icon. #NameThatFilm
The stories of Black laborers are only valid and worth hearing when interpreted, stolen, and profited off of by plucky young white women. Bonus: The author of the book did the exact same thing. #NameThatFilm
All of the men in this film were abusive, manipulative, exploitative, sex-obsessed, and fighting over "The Lightest Skinned Woman," but they were also jokesters and great musicians and performers, so we forgot all that and jammed. #NameThatFilm
The Black man gave up his life to teach the detached and ornery white woman to love her kids and have hope for a brighter future, which she later finds after a tumultuous boat ride. #NameThatFilm
This one exploited the lives of Black LGBTQIA+ people and left them out of the proceeds. BONUS: A television show based on it gave all the negative pathologies/tragedies of the non-Black/light people to the dark-skinned Black characters. #NameThatFilm
Black people love this tale of Black self-loathing and "tragic m*latto" tropes, and consider it a classic. #NameThatFilm
In this tale, all the lightskinned Black people pledge one sorority or frat, and all the darkskinned Black people another sorority or frat. They also sing and dance tunes about colorism and are homophobic. #NameThatFilm
The Anti-Christ is a little evil looking white boy who all the white people thought was cute. #NameThatFilm
This film makes everybody hate Danny Glover even though he's a wonderful person in real life. #NameThatFilm
They wanted this to be a love letter to LBJ, but Ava DuVernay told the truth and they got mad. #NameThatFilm
We're also playing #NameThatShow!
Selling drugs and drug violence is amazing and heroic and badass and and thrilling self-sacrificing and empathetic and understandable when white people do it. #NameThatShow
There are several acceptable answers here: The genital of a transgender person is the reveal, the twist, the gotcha, the Aha, the shock, the disgust, and the object of the cisgender gaze. #NameThatFilm
In a tale of just how much this Black man loved a white woman, he came back from the dead with a hook hand and terrorized Black people in the projects until he got him another white woman to replace the first one. #NameThatFilm
Queenie was in the couch all along. #NameThatFilm
Wait. You discovered through your recording devices that there's a demon in your house, and you put your child BACK in the crib of the room where all the demonic activity is taking place? Somebody call CPS. #NameThatFilm
Your best friend told you stop messing with them white women. But nah. You drove your ass up to West Cotton, Whiteville anyway, and see? #NameThatFilm
The Black person who wants to end white supremacy is the villain. The Black person who wants to stop the Black man who wants to end white supremacy and open Black paradise up for white people to share in is the hero. #NameThatFilm
For some reason, people thought it was okay to joke about domestic violence with this movie, saying things like, "You betta find yo' ass" and laughing. #NameThatFilm
This character from this popular series of films has always been drawn as a dark-skinned African person, but suddenly, in the films, she's always depicted as a light-skinned Black/Biracial person. Name the character and #NameThatFilm series.
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