Unveiling a Startling Hollywood Controversy: Unearthing Hidden Truths About ‘The Blind Side’ and the White Savior Narrative!

Recently, in response to the 2009 film “The Blind Side,” Hollywood has come under fire amid claims that the business favors “White Savior” movie plot lines.

Michael Oher, the former NFL player who served as the film’s inspiration, argues that the Tuohy family deceived him into a conservatorship so that they could benefit off of his story without having formally adopted him.

Experts and liberal journalists have stated the film, in which Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her portrayal, is an example of the “White savior” trope, wherein the experiences of marginalized groups are depicted through the eyes of “heroic” White protagonists.

Former LAFCA president Claudia Puig told the LA Times that she was not startled by the specifics of Oher’s account but was stunned by how long he had delayed to come forward.

‘The Blind Side’ uses certain problematic White savior stereotypes in its narrative. She found the movie to be bigoted at worst and egocentric at best.

Puig criticized Hollywood for posing as a progressive champion for minority rights while frequently censoring the voices of people it claims to serve, and he hoped that the industry would stop making “wince-inducing” movies like this in the future.

She went on to say that the public should see Hollywood to be “open-minded and liberal.”

However, White people often lead these productions and may be blind to the most racially insensitive aspects of their own work. Alternatively, they could not give a hoot.

“Green Book” reaction may have “slowed the White Savior wave,” but Hollywood “shows few signs” of abandoning the cliché, says LA Times senior writer Greg Baxton.

Most films that depict “White saviors” are helmed by White directors critical of racism and often draw inspiration from actual historical figures or events.

Moreover, he said, many of these stories “stifle their well-intentioned messages, if not counteract them entirely, by centering White characters.”

Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, Glory, Dances With Wolves, The Help, Avatar, Grand Canyon, Amistad, Billy Jack, A Time to Kill, Gran Torino, Hidden Figures, The White Shadow, and Game of Thrones are just a few examples of the many films and shows that have been condemned for propagating this stereotype.

Veteran film critic Tim Cogshell had some qualms with the 1997 film “Ghosts of Mississippi,” which chronicles assistant district attorney Bobby DeLaughter’s inquiry into the killing of civil rights icon Medgar Evers.

The film’s stars, Alec Baldwin and Whoopi Goldberg, were the two aforementioned actors.

Cogshell: “I remember thinking as a film reviewer, ‘Somehow a movie about the murder of Medgar Evers ended up being about a White person.

The communications professor at Clemson University, Erin Ash, has slammed the 2018 Oscar-winning film “Green Brook,” stating it “spoon-feeds racism to White people” and has “very little that can’t be described as crude, obvious, and borderline offensive.”

For all that, “we all believed we lived in this post-racial era,” as Ash put it. The film “Green Book” showed how prejudices are perpetuated because of their cultural resonance…Read More