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Chance the Rapper Criticizes Racial Allegory in Netflix’s ‘Bright’; Snoop Dogg Says Film is ‘Hard AF’

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Chance the Rapper (L) and Snoop Dogg
Chance the Rapper (L) and Snoop Dogg

*Will Smith’s new Netflix film “Bright” has been torn to pieces by critics, and now Chance the Rapper
has joined the fray with what he sees as the film’s “shallow” attempt to mirror America’s race problem.

Directed by David Ayer, “Bright” is set in an alternate reality where humans and mythical creatures live side by side, with orcs as the minority. Smith’s character, a cop, gets paired with the LAPD’s first orc officer, played by Joel Edgerton.

“Wondering how you guys are feeling about the lynched [orc] in #BrightMovie,” Chance began a five-tweet thread. “I found the way they tried to illustrate [America’s] racism through the mythical creatures to be a little shallow.”

He continued, “I always feel a lil cheated when I see allegorical racism in movies ’cause that racism usually stems from human emotion or tolerance, but not by law or systems, the way it is in real life. The characters in ‘Bright’ live in a timeline where racism is gone… cause we hate [orc] now.”

Another user suggested the creators weren’t “trying to make a metaphor.” Chance pointed to a controversial scene where Smith’s character says, “Fairy lives don’t matter,” in reference to the Black Lives Matter movement. In response to that particular criticism, the film’s writer, Max Landis, tweeted, “I believe the ‘Fairy Lives Don’t Matter’ line was an adlib by Will Smith, but I don’t know for sure.”

View the thread below:

Meanwhile, Snoop Dogg loved the film, calling it “hard AF” and highly recommending it.

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