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Negro...

posted 2 years ago by April-151-CT (10210)
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The name of Don Pedro Colley's character in the closing credits. Good fuck, the guy couldn't even get a name LOL?? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[–] wearsalan (5554) 2 years ago

If you see the updated credits he is called Ongaro.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

I've never seen that, as far as I know. I just watched this about 2 weeks ago on TV, can't recall what channel, either Comet or Sci-Fi or BBC America, and it still said Negro. Although I do have the DVD box set. I'll have to check it out and see if it's on there. But still, it would've only be after the fact. The fact that he had no name and was called Negro is pretty messed up LOL.

[–] wearsalan (5554) 2 years ago

Sign of the times I suppose

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

Yup, and it's crazy. I can see if he was a background character with no lines and no screen time. Say like he was just someone in the background planting a garden or something by himself I could see it saying negro planting garden or something to that effect. Because negro was the accepted phrase for black people back then, so saying negro in and of itself was not considered bad back then. But to have such a prominent character just being called Negro is just pretty messed up even for back then LOL.

[–] firetower2 (3) 9 months ago

Back then it was considered the same as saying "Blonde" or something like that. Just describing that character.

[–] millsey72 (9763) 2 years ago

You actually watched the closing credits?

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

In this day and age on broadcast TV, they roll on the same screen at the same time the next movie/program begins. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[–] millsey72 (9763) 2 years ago

True, but usually they roll the credits so fast, you can't even read them. Next week on Screenpix channel, all the original 5 Apes films are on. And its a commercial free channel

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

I find that the first 30 seconds or so run normal, then they speed them up. But I think it depends on how much time they have left before the next thing starts.

[–] seagal72 (1874) 9 months ago

Let's be honest here...you wouldn't have known the actor (Don Pedro Called) from 'Adam'...had his credit *not* been titled as such?

[–] overseas7 (3732) 6 months ago

And there is a "fat man" too in the credits (at least in the blue-ray edition).

[–] SickSpazmoid (761) 6 months ago

I read somewhere that around that time "negro" was the preferable and more politically correct word, more than the word "black" was.

[–] WandererFromYs (1918) 6 months ago

That’s correct. But even though it has fallen out of favor, and no one uses it anymore, it was never an offense term, it simply means black.

[–] SickSpazmoid (761) 6 months ago

Not entirely correct. Recently I have read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States", which happens to be one of liberals' basic books, and "Negroes" was how he was referring to blacks. But if they haven't "corrected" it already, surely they would in future prints.