Hey Everyone, Let’s Use Outdated Fears Of Miscegenation To Sell Movie Tickets!

Sometimes, I feel like I’m just banging my head against the wall. Because yes, seriously, apparently Hollywood thinks that the way to have a serious conversation about race and sex in America is to remake Indecent Proposal so the rich businessman black, the woman in question of mixed race, and the husband is white. I would say this is the most audaciously absurd pitch I’ve heard, worse than NBC’s claim that The Playboy Club was all about women’s empowerment, but then they’ll insist that it’s a meaningful movie about the recession and I’ll spend the entire day in the corner weeping instead of writing blog posts.