Hollywood’s Hypocrisy: A Personal Lens on Racism in Films.

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Hollywood loves to paint itself as a beacon of progress, a glittering world where diversity reigns and racism is a relic of the past. But peel back the red carpet, and the cracks show—sometimes subtle, sometimes supernova-bright. My journey to this realization started with a single line in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and it’s been fueled by a lifetime of seeing through the industry’s double standards, from my college days to the scripts handed to Black actors today.It was Peter Quill’s outburst in the Kyln prison scene that first grabbed me. He spots a guard with…

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Hollywood, I have questions!

I am undecided whether the screenwriters are stupid or whether they believe the citizenry are uneducated intellectual midgets. I have these questions because of what I have noticed throughout the years in the movies that Hollywood churns out.In the latest iteration of Frank Herbert's movie, "Dune," I noticed that the writers disregarded Sir Isaac Newton's third law of motion, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." We see this violation in a scene where the Harkonnen Guards are hunting the Fremen because of the Fremen's disruption of Spice production. The Harkonnen Guards are closing…

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