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The French Prince of Bel Air

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  • #62
    creolebelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭creolebelle


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    RACIST!!!

    What? Are you "taking the piss" at me?


  • #63
    Sunglasses Ron
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    KingOfFairview wrote: »
    Anyone else used to watch this wonderful "sitcom" with Will Smith? He played a black young man


    Will Smith must get so sick and tired of being typecast as a black lad. They should give him the lead in a Woody Allen biopic I says. Versatility.


  • #64
    MrWard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭MrWard


    Sunglasses Ron wrote: »
    Will Smith must get so sick and tired of being typecast as a black lad. They should give him the lead in a Woody Allen biopic I says. Versatility.

    He has picked up some non stereotypical roles. I am Legend, for example.


  • #65
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    Hell Ram wrote: »
    The French Prince, West Baltimore, Uncle Bill, Uncle Bill is Will's real dad in the show...what the fack was going on in this thread!?

    It's like I'm reading about the show in the twilight zone.

    Yeah sorry If I got some of the details mixed up. Obviously it was a howler to say Baltimore especially, given the memorable theme tune mentions Philadelphia. Quite untimely error on my part.


  • #66
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    MrWard wrote: »
    He has picked up some non stereotypical roles. I am Legend, for example.

    Or muhamhhed Ali.


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  • #67
    branie
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    I loved it when Uncle Phil threw Jazz out of the house.


  • #68
    Kerrydude1981
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    branie wrote: »
    I loved it when Uncle Phil threw Jazz out of the house.

    Ya,Mr Jazz as Geoffrey used call him




  • #69
    asteroids over berlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭asteroids over berlin


    pale blue dot cotton wrote: »
    Loved the show but when I watch it now I think it's a bit racist. Every white person is a total douchebag.

    i used to love it but i agree it was racist!


  • #70
    NSAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,497 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Ouest de Philadelphie, né et élevé,
    Dans la cour de récréation de passer tous mes jours,
    Tir BBall ...


  • #71
    jacksie66
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  • #72
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    It sometimes touched on serious issues in a way not normally seen in a "sitcom" too. I remember when

    Will and Carlton got stopped driving a nice car, with a suggestion it was because they were the victims of racist profiling

    Carlton became dependent on study drugs, shouting"in so excited, I'm so afraid"

    The aforementioned episode with Wills deadbeat dad

    The very first episode revealed uncle Phil had been an acolyte of Malcolm x, but decided being a rich judge was a better way to fight for black power than violence and radical separatism

    Either will or Carlson cheated to get into college. This episode exploited morality and the pressure to conform

    The butler dated a wealthy women. But he felt not good enough for her, despite the fact he was blatantly the most upper class member of the show. This was really quite focused on social and economic "class" issues, though we should hardly confer upon it comparison with Das Kapital or the conditions of the working class in England by chairman Mao. Nonetheless, people who might not otherwise contemplate such issues would have had their thoughts provoked.


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