Random Acts of Flyness (2018) s01e05 Episode Script
I tried to tell my therapist about my dreams/MARTIN HAD A DREEEEAAAAM
(organ music
playing discordantly)
Martin:
People will come to see
that not only is something
wrong in general,
but something is wrong
in particular.
But I must confess,
that, uh,
the dream I had that day
has in many points
turned into a nightmare.
-Red stain on the concrete ♪
Gonna sing ♪
I'm gonna sing this day ♪
Clock-bike ♪
Masters of institution ♪
-Men: Patrice,
-Malcolm. Patrice.
-Garvey. Stokely.
-Malcolm.
-Emmett.
-Malcolm. Sankara.
-Malcolm.
-Patrice. Medgar.
Stokely. Emmett. Patrice.
Work, work
my kitango ♪
♪
Coretta:
Martin, what's wrong?
Martin:
I had a dream.
What happened
in your dream?
Go ahead.
Again.
Auctioneer:
This is a lifetime pass,
unlimited "niggas."
You can say it
however you like.
You can say it
whenever you like.
"Nigga" can be yours
if the price is right.
Now we ended
at a million dollars.
One point five.
Auctioneer:
Boom!
-My nigga.
-Two million.
Ooh! You niggas is nasty!
-Three million.
-Nigga!
-Four million.
-Nigga!
Fifty million!
Nigga.
Fifty million going once.
Fifty million going twice.
-Sold to the ofay
with the artificial chin.
Come on up here!
I have wanted this
for a long time,
a really long time.
Guess a nigga
finally made it.
The new bidding starts
at $100 million.
:
You get the fresh
:
white skin
of brother Tarantino.
As well as the right
to say "nigga"
without me slapping
the fire out of that ass.
TV Host:
He returns now to tell us
about the most incredible
con man he ever knew:
a blonde-haired,
blue-eyed negro
-called "White Folks."
You're not putting us on,
are you, Slim?
Slim: No, that's--
that's, uh
That's factual.
: To be
Peace.
Is to be without a god?
-Whoa.
Jen:
Yeah, I'm just
really sick of it all,
really, you know.
Like, how dare
they shame me,
shame us
for putting a roof
over the child's head.
Matt: They're
entertainment websites.
They don't mean
anything, babe.
Jen:
I know,
it just gets to me.
She's just a child.
What did you say
her new name is?
See? Mattie. Jesus.
The name has to change.
Matt: Wha
Really? I-I--
Jen:
I sent him a study
about how people
don't hire candidates
with black-sounding names.
What people?
And who says that-that
:
Selome sounds black.
Gatekeepers!
Okay, the gatekeepers, right.
I'd say it sounds African.
Jen:
Mattie, it's fucking science.
Get with the program.
-Do you have any idea--
-Jen: And you want
to further disable her.
-Matt: Do you hear
what you sound like?
-Jen: Yes!
Like a concerned mother.
Matt:
Okay. Hey, okay.
We'll decide on another name.
Sorry. It's
new parenting stress.
It's fine.
I totally get it.
You don't, but that's
nice of you to say.
I mean
I feel like
making movies
it's a bit like
birthing children.
Really?
Joel: I mean, I'm in
the process right now.
Don't listen to anything I say.
You're in the process?
Do you, uh
You writing something?
I am, yes.
Matt:
Oh.
You-- So you'll
be in it as well or?
-That's the plan.
Who will direct?
Me, as well.
Wow, that's--
That's incredible.
How's it going?
What's it about?
Tell us more.
I still haven't
Matt:
Yeah.
That just sort of happens.
I don't know,
this language,
it's not her mother tongue.
You know, it comes out.
Psychiatrist says
it's, uh, PTSD
from the war in
:
in Malawi or Madagascar.
-Jen: Malawi.
-Matt: Malawi.
♪
Joel:
I want to play him.
-Tom: That's illegal.
Tom:
You can't go
full blackface.
I mean, the whole Rameses
thing already, come on.
You said that was a net win.
Yeah, key word "net."
I mean, there were
losses suffered.
Not him.
-Him.
-Thank God.
Joel:
In the background.
Tom:
Who
Joel:
Yeah, him.
Tom:
You can barely see him.
I know.
But he's there.
What is a guy like that
doing in a place like that?
My thoughts exactly.
What is he doing there?
Why would he sacrifice so much
-to help those kids.
-Bro, this thing's
like 40 pages.
I could be wrong,
but I think you need more--
I have researched the guy.
He's fascinating.
Ex-Navy SEAL decides to become
a missionary in Africa.
So?
The character sells itself.
So, like a
"zero dark continent"
type of thing?
We can get France
to pre-buy.
We only need
like two million.
Yeah, I hear it is
pretty affordable
to shoot in Africa.
-And tell packaging
-Especially right now.
the potential for this,
is fucking unlimited.
Okay.
All right.
It's not a bad idea,
but here's the thing.
The first thing
you gotta do,
you gotta get somebody
to play your sidekick,
your homie.
Hmm?
Kevin Hart.
Jamie Foxx.
Michael B., what's up?
Mahershala. Denzel.
You never been to Africa?
Lakeith, stop talking
for a second.
Chadwick, I mean,
what do I have to do here?
Okay.
Hey, is Jayden around?
I hear you, Lupita.
What's happening
to black women
in this country
right now, it's
Uh, listen, before you go,
you have Octavia's number?
No, no, no.
The white guy in that
was, like
Jeffrey Wright.
Hey, this is an important movie.
This is not bullshit.
-These are your orphans.
-Action. Okay.
Uh, hold-- hold on.
I'm gonna have
to call you back.
These are the orphans.
Oh.
These aren't gonna work.
We need real orphans.
We need a real kid.
This is why we have
to shoot in the Congo.
Oh, the producers say
that we can shoot
in studio for the Congo.
-Those fucking suits.
-And I can't say I disagree.
The light!
The light is different.
It's the African sun,
for Christ's sake.
It's like melanin,
natural light.
It's gonna be great.
It's different, it's better.
Listen,
the ship has sailed.
-The tickets are booked.
Executive Producer
:
Let me reiterate.
We are going
to shoot Toronto.
A studio in Toronto
for Kinshasa, okay?
They have a huge
population of
Somalis here
that can pass
for Congolese.
Uh, we locked the amputees
for our cluster bomb victims.
There is no turning back.
Just focus on doing it here.
It's gonna be great.
Newswoman:
Here's what
he tweeted out.
This is a photo of him,
smiling at four young
children,
along with the
Nelson Mandela quote,
"No one is born
hating another person
because of the color
of his skin."
Kendra:
It's a platitude
we've often heard.
But recent studies
are calling into question
the oft-heard cliché.
Scientists are now asking,
"Can white babies
be born racist?"
-I can't watch my shows.
If the actors
on the TV are black,
-the baby cries.
The second
I turn the channel
to a white show
Kendra:
Quoting Bob Callahan,
the head of maternal
and infant health
at the Center for
Chronic Disease
Prevention,
"In hospitals,
"pregnant black women
get different
"and often worse care
than their white
counterparts,
which contribute
to pregnancy-related
complications."
Nurse: And actually,
I'm gonna have
you sit here
so I can take your
blood pressure
before you leave.
So your blood pressure's
pretty high today.
-Okay.
Um, I'm gonna
re-dip your urine,
but either way,
I'm gonna send you,
um, to the hospital
for preeclampsia labs.
Patient:
Okay.
If they diagnose me
with preeclampsia,
they-- I have
to have the baby.
-Yeah! Yeah, I could die.
I just have had
a couple of friends
who've had preeclampsia,
and I'm not fucking
around with this.
-I gotta go to the hospital.
-Woman: Yes.
Do you know where
Labor and Delivery is?
Woman:
Uh, it's on the
Woman:
Hi. Labor and Delivery.
Man:
Uh, the clinic or are
you having pains?
-I need to get labs.
-Okay.
Just take this elevator
right here to the seventh.
Man 2: Miss!
You can't bring your camera
into the hospital.
First dose now,
and your second
-Woman: He's so zen.
Kendra:
The study has shown
that these inequities
are present at conception,
so it's no wonder
that white babies
act out their
inherited privileges
in their infancy.
Shaylah:
They think
they own the slide.
They think they own
the whole playground.
Shaylah: Do you see
that your kid just
pushed my kid?
They're like, "What are
you talking about," like
it didn't even happen.
If they don't see it,
how could their kids
see him?
Interviewer:
Why is he the ugly child?
'Cause he's brown-- black.
Doctor:
What we find
over and over again
is that it seems that we're,
at a deep level, built to
to not like individuals
who are different
from ourselves
and to prefer those
who are similar to us.
Kendra:
These findings raise
an urgent question.
Excluding the obvious
Sangeresque solution,
abortion
:
can white supremacist
babies be stopped?
Joel:
Thank you.
Thank you.
There's just not enough
pain in the eyes.
That kid was actually
a child soldier.
Well
I just feel like
he looks
like
you know.
-Okay.
Hmm.
Joel:
How you doing, today?
Fine.
So, first, I'm just gonna
have a look at you.
I want you to
look me in the eye and
I want you to think
of the most painful experience
that you've ever endured.
-Thank you.
He's the one.
He's the one.
Yeah. Totally.
♪
We gotta get these--
We gotta get these kids
outta here right now.
Hmm? Oh, sorry.
Hang on.
Sorry.
Assistant Director:
Uh, you're-- you're
bringing them
into your family,
and for what?
-Joel: Hey, sorry.
Joel:
Uh, where are the--
Where are the Janjaweed?
These-- these are
the Janjaweed.
Yeah.
No, the Janjaweed
have horses.
They can't be on foot.
And they've got AR-15s,
that's not accurate.
Yeah, but
I mean, the Janjaweed
are North Sudanese,
-and the film takes
place in the Congo--
-No, no.
That's beside the point.
Remember-- remember
what I told you?
We're using the concept
of the Janjaweed
as the antagonist,
because it conjures up
the big bad wolf that's
so firmly planted itself
into the consciousness
of popular American culture.
Yeah. I know, I know.
I know, but
what I'm saying is,
unfortunately,
our Janjaweed don't know
how to ride our horses.
All of our stunt riders
are white.
I mean, we could
put some makeup
on our stunt riders,
and just use these guys
in the close-- Oh.
Use them in the close-ups
and it would be--
Woman:
You starved casting
from day one.
I mean, this--
this was bound to happen!
-If this was a budgetary issue--
-Joel: What the fuck! Shh!
You should have
raised it weeks ago!
-Joel, we're fucked.
-Joel: Hey, morale.
What happened?
Woman:
There was
a misunderstanding.
-He's not showing up.
I mean, we need him today.
His scenes are today, but
We could push him
a few days, maybe,
but we're gonna
lose half of the--
He's not coming at all.
Like, ever?
The fucking fuck
fucked us.
-Here.
:
Hey, what's up, man.
Um, I hate leaving
voicemails, so I'm
gonna keep it quick.
There's a
misunderstanding,
apparently.
I got-- I got the call sheet
and all that,
the schedule and shit
a couple days ago,
for that script you had sent
about the Navy SEAL,
and, um
um, I thought it was funny
you going to a fucking Kinko's
and printing out
fake call sheets,
that's adorable,
but, in fact,
you are not joking
about making a fucking
white savior film.
It seems that you are, indeed,
going to shoot this thing.
I just, um
Jesse: I know we can't be--
we can't be friends anymore.
-Jesse: Good luck, buddy.
I don't really mean that.
-Jesse: And Don already
made Hotel Rwanda.
And he killed it.
Oscar noms,
the whole deal.
-The shit--
-We cut his character.
We can't do that.
It's what we're doing.
No.
Because then
the whole movie
is about my character,
and that is not the story
that I set out to make.
And I am not making that movie.
I know. I know it's a
tough pill to swallow.
-No, that is fucking bullshit.
-It is. Come on.
-That is bullshit.
-Let me just talk
to you for a second.
Just for a minute.
A year from now
you're sitting in the 11th row
of the Dolby Theater.
Awards Presenter:
And here are the nominees
for Best Picture.
You hear
your name called.
Awards Presenter:
Valley in the
Light of Darkness.
Executive Producer:
And all of this
will seem hilarious
(presenter continues
indistinctly)
Executive Producer:
'cause you will have
made this movie,
and in doing so
Award Presenter:
And the award for
best picture goes to
Executive Producer:
you'll have made
the world a better place.
Charmaine:
Are-- are you
listening to me?
Hmm? Yep.
The kid doesn't want
to wear a black tux.
Why? Is there
something wrong?
Well, he says,
"When celebrating the life
of the dead in my culture,
we wear white."
I got a-- a white bow tie
in my top drawer.
-He can borrow that.
-Won't work.
He says that black pants
and jacket attract demons,
-and devils, that kind of--
-Charmaine!
That is mighty racist
of you to imply
that a African child's
spiritual practices are demonic.
I didn't say that.
-Yes, you--
We gotta talk.
Alone. Now.
Tom:
Oh my God,
your character.
He's not dead.
No, no, no.
I told Bob.
I'm not changing
the end of the movie
for the Blu-ray.
-No, no.
-He has to martyr himself.
No, for God sakes,
I'm not talking about
the movie character!
-I'm talking about
the real guy.
The
The guy in the video
you showed me.
What?
Stanley
What the fuck's his name?
Stanley Whakensky.
Stanley Whakensky!
He's not dead!
Oh, no. No, no.
He is dead.
I saw it on Google.
Nope.
He's alive on Google.
And he's alive
in the criminal justice system
of the Congo,
where he was
recently arrested
for raping African children
-African children
in a refugee camp,
near the border of Burundi.
My God!
Oh my God!
This is so bad.
We gotta get ahead of this.
We gotta get way
ahead of this.
:
So if you win,
which you will,
of course,
you must talk about
-Hey!
It's based
on a true story.
Award Presenter:
And the award
for Best Picture
It's who we will be
-goes to
-not who we are.
Valley in the
Light of Darkness!
♪
First, I wanna thank Africa.
The whole continent.
Uh, making this film
was, um
trial by fire.
It was painful
and, uh, absurd
and transcendent
in equal measure.
'Cause you know what?
On the other side
of that pain,
we have birthed a film that
speaks to the necessity
of everyone in this room
to dedicate your time
and your-- your effort
into healing what--
what we've broken.
And to inspire on
the African continent hope,
and love,
and
Uh, li--
Woman: Do you have
any advice for a young girl
moving to Hollywood?
Brie Larson:
And the Oscar goes
to Casey Affleck.
Terence:
The liberal bastions of
Hollywood and Silicon Valley
have been revealed
as little more than
a stag party.
No one is safe
from a white man
with a gun or a bomb.
Racist-raping tyrants
are in possession
of nuclear weapons
in America, Israel,
Saudi Arabia,
and North Korea.
-Good to finally meet you.
-Absolutely.
I've heard that you're
actually the devil incarnate.
I'm glad to meet you.
Terence: It's a character
flaw that they are blind
to themselves
and the characters
they create.
Breaking Bad
as a cultural phenomenon
peaked in 2013.
There's a lot of people
who can relate
to this character.
Terence:
I've been thinking.
Does get
elected president
without the existence
of Walter White?
Let's backtrack
a little bit.
America's first
box office hit
came in 1915
with Birth of a Nation.
The Civil War
and Reconstruction epic
was a Ku Klux Klan
recruiting tool,
and the first
motion picture to screen
at the White House.
-Not blackface.
Movies and television
are propaganda.
It's no coincidence
the Cold War gave rise
to the action hero
or that Hollywood
set the table
for an affable,
non-threatening
black president.
Our society will continue.
Work will go on.
You will pay your bills.
Terence:
Can I read you a quote
from Fight Club?
"Men I see in Fight Club
are the strongest
"and smartest men
that ever lived.
"An entire generation
pumping gas
and waiting tables,
: "slaves
with white collars.
"We've all been
raised on television
to believe that one day
"we'd all be millionaires
and movie gods
and rock stars.
"But we won't,
and we're slowly
learning that fact,
and we're very,
very pissed off."
Now think about
that quote in the context
of what happened
in Charlottesville.
Terence:
The alt-right's term
"snowflake,"
which roughly
translated means
a white man who's
been emasculated,
-was coined
in the book Fight Club.
Now, could Fight Club
have inspired
the alt
Let me explain what
we mean by "inspire."
The White Devil,
also known as
the anti-hero,
is an archetypal
character trope.
White Devils are
white men and women
thrust into situations
in which they are surrounded
by other white characters,
who do not possess
their preternatural level
of genius or skill.
The wrinkle is that
the White Devil
is his or her
own antagonist.
Often, some embodiment
of their Jungian shadow
consistently pervades
their life and
relationships.
God damn it!
Terence Winter:
You know, I-I understood
how Tony thought.
So it was very easy for me
to slip into that guy.
Terence:
The power that this
shadow generates
is the key source
of the White Devils'
exceptional
technical genius.
Claire Danes:
Carrie is brilliant.
And part of her brilliance
has to do with her
being bipolar.
Terence: The White Devils'
narrative function
is to win
in the battle against
his or her shadow self,
and make sure
the dark energy
that their
shadow self generates
is used for good.
It's a character flaw
that they are blind
to themselves
in the characters
they create.
♪
The heroes and protagonists
of their literature
and films
reek of the same oversight.
An uncharacteristic value
that they solve,
but instantly
deepen and broaden
their perspective.
This was the flaw
they worshiped.
Question.
Have you thought about
what makes these
characters compelling?
Why them?
Why their stories?
I don't see Don
as an anti-hero.
Uh, Don doesn't kill people.
He is situationally moral.
Vince Gilligan:
Just boom,
into my head.
Suddenly, it struck me
that what would be
interesting to me
as a viewer
and as a writer,
would be, what if this was,
like, essentially me?
Terence:
Why them?
Is it because white people
are the best at everything?
Not only the best cops,
but also the best
drug dealers?
I ask because
Breaking Bad is a show
about a guy who has
the American dream.
But when his mortality
is threatened,
he has to turn
to a life of crime.
In order to survive,
he has to tap into a rage
that's always been there,
just below the surface.
In doing so, he embraces
his Jungian shadow,
and goes from
impotent to virile.
Clearly, the surname
"White" is symbolic
of this archetypal
pathology, but
to what degree is
Breaking Bad
intentionally about
white men's
pathological fragility?
To what degree
is this show intentionally
inspiring white men
to re-establish
their social
and cultural dominance?
Given the aforementioned,
did Walter White
intentionally inspire
the popular resurgence
of the alt
Matt Dillon:
The atrocities
we commit in our fiction
are those inner desires
which we cannot commit
in our controlled
civilization.
Terence: That said,
the alt-right is not new
or phenomenal
in any way.
So given that stasis,
why do these
characters persist?
They persist because
the White Devil archetype
in contemporary film
and television functions
as yet another display
of white male dominance
and social power,
by framing the
Jungian shadow
as a source of
white male cultural
and social centrality.
Its function is
to peacock.
To put on display
a shadow-fueled virility
and acumen.
The desired effect is
for the melanated masses
to hesitate
before challenging
white supremacy.
Their hope is that,
in any moment
of resistance,
no matter how big
or small,
they, us,
we
will remember
that the white person
or institution
they are resisting
has a devil inside them,
an amoral devil
that will not
concede defeat
under any circumstances.
I am not
seeking forgiveness.
What's the matter?
I had a nightmare.
Again?
It was little white girls
and little white boys.
I dreamt that one day,
on the red hills of Georgia,
the sons of former slaves
and the--
In Georgia?
Roy Harper:
I used to have a picture
of a white man,
with a sandwich in his hand,
with the world in it.
This song came out of that.
Far across the ocean ♪
In the land of
look and see ♪
There once was a time ♪
For you and me ♪
And where the
crazy white man ♪
In the desert
of his bones ♪
Lies as bleached
as the paradise ♪
He likes to think he owns ♪
And I hate the white man ♪
In his evergreen excuse ♪
Oh, I hate the white man ♪
And the man who
turned you all loose ♪
I'll be right back.
It's not that much.
You got White Angel,
White Devil,
then White Racist Babies.
And then White Thoughts.
Lazercism.
You know, some
Listen, we already
talked about this.
I told you before.
We cannot spend
all that time on whiteness.
That obviously
was not the plan.
Man, don't listen to him.
Man, you gotta give
the people what they want.
And they can only want
what they know.
And they know
how to laugh
:
"Oh, look at white people.
They want to touch my hair.
"They all smell
like Lemon Pledge.
"They all clap on
one and three,
white people,
white people, etc. etc."
Pink:
And yet, here we are.
Green:
I met this pretty cool
white dude the other day.
I think he was white,
I mean, that's how
he described himself, but
when they say that,
I'm not exactly sure
what they mean,
'cause when I think
of the color white,
-I think of cumulus clouds
and cake frosting.
-Pink: Listen. Focus!
Consciousness shift.
Re-centering us, etc.
What have you.
Let's get this paper.
I'm serious.
Bruh, you not changing nothing.
-Nigga, you just not.
Listen, I know what
y'all are sayin'
that the inutility of art
is where its
mysterious power lies.
But if these
devil motherfucks
can get their
propaganda out,
and you know,
dig their mines and shit,
and get their paper
and get their people elected,
-and generally execute on
their strategies and shit--
-Terence: And get results.
-Results!
-But how does one
qualify results.
-Let me finish, let me finish.
-That is totally
not the same thing.
-It's a false--
-If their strategies
can bear fruit,
then why can't mine?
Why can't my propaganda
start a populace uprising
-that wipes away white
supremacy and patriarchy?
A white ghost.
And stops people
from eating Hot Cheetos
for breakfast and shit.
-Yellow: Uh-uh! No!
Not I! No! No!
There is no space in my head
for no motherfucking ofay!
You are not payin'
enough rent
to live in my
motherfuckin' mind!
Plus, these motherfuckers
who funded this show
did not put no real
motherfucking money
into the fuckin' vision.
I wonder why!
I wonder why!
-I wonder why!
My rent went up
last year, too.
He's right.
Yellow:
so that they can feel like,
"Oh, you know, Terence"
Come on.
We gotta keep it moving.
Yellow:
No more Mr. Motherfucking
Nice Terence!
No more
Mr. Nice Terence!
I'm goin' fuckin' full
capitalism on their ass.
Today!
No grateful, humble.
No motherfuckin' I.
You know, I'm so hot,
I'm gonna fuck it up.
-(Yellow continues
yelling, indistinct)
Terence:
What up, world?
It's Terence Nance here.
Welcome to
Random Acts of Flyness,
-a variety show about--
Terence:
Fuck!
-Terence: God damn it.
-Officer: What the fuck
is wrong with you?
You can't be riding a bike
and texting at the same time.
Officer, I was not texting.
I was filming
my television show.
Gene:
Excuse me!
Officer:
Who the hell is this guy?
I'm, uh, I'm Gene Whitemon.
I'm Mr. Nance's
white witness. Hi.
-I can attest that Mr. Nance
did absolutely no wrong.
I saw it with
my own two eyes.
Why didn't you tell me
you had a white witness, kid?
I was trying to not
center whiteness.
He's a nice guy.
It's really fine.
Listen, we good here?
'Cause I
You gotta keep
this guy close to you.
I gotta go, 'cause
I got more takes to do.
♪
DIAMOND STINGLY:
A lot of my work has to do with
mainly the women in my family.
They're beautiful,
they're super courageous.
Just looking at my family,
and being like,
"Oh, like, we survived a lot."
So I just wanted
to make something
that represents black femininity
and black girlhood.
♪
STINGLY: Because black women
are misrepresented
like all the time.
We come across, like, aggressive
when we're just,
like, assertive.
I think art is supposed to
start conversations,
make things relatable
for people.
I don't like art
that's supposed to intimidate.
I think art is supposed
to be for everybody.
I'm doing this
'cause I feel like
I have no other choice
but to do it.
I do it 'cause I, like,
genuinely, like, enjoy it.
Also, I have no PR training,
so I speak how I feel.
I'm not out here trying
to be something that I'm not.
I'm Diamond from the block.
playing discordantly)
Martin:
People will come to see
that not only is something
wrong in general,
but something is wrong
in particular.
But I must confess,
that, uh,
the dream I had that day
has in many points
turned into a nightmare.
-Red stain on the concrete ♪
Gonna sing ♪
I'm gonna sing this day ♪
Clock-bike ♪
Masters of institution ♪
-Men: Patrice,
-Malcolm. Patrice.
-Garvey. Stokely.
-Malcolm.
-Emmett.
-Malcolm. Sankara.
-Malcolm.
-Patrice. Medgar.
Stokely. Emmett. Patrice.
Work, work
my kitango ♪
♪
Coretta:
Martin, what's wrong?
Martin:
I had a dream.
What happened
in your dream?
Go ahead.
Again.
Auctioneer:
This is a lifetime pass,
unlimited "niggas."
You can say it
however you like.
You can say it
whenever you like.
"Nigga" can be yours
if the price is right.
Now we ended
at a million dollars.
One point five.
Auctioneer:
Boom!
-My nigga.
-Two million.
Ooh! You niggas is nasty!
-Three million.
-Nigga!
-Four million.
-Nigga!
Fifty million!
Nigga.
Fifty million going once.
Fifty million going twice.
-Sold to the ofay
with the artificial chin.
Come on up here!
I have wanted this
for a long time,
a really long time.
Guess a nigga
finally made it.
The new bidding starts
at $100 million.
:
You get the fresh
:
white skin
of brother Tarantino.
As well as the right
to say "nigga"
without me slapping
the fire out of that ass.
TV Host:
He returns now to tell us
about the most incredible
con man he ever knew:
a blonde-haired,
blue-eyed negro
-called "White Folks."
You're not putting us on,
are you, Slim?
Slim: No, that's--
that's, uh
That's factual.
: To be
Peace.
Is to be without a god?
-Whoa.
Jen:
Yeah, I'm just
really sick of it all,
really, you know.
Like, how dare
they shame me,
shame us
for putting a roof
over the child's head.
Matt: They're
entertainment websites.
They don't mean
anything, babe.
Jen:
I know,
it just gets to me.
She's just a child.
What did you say
her new name is?
See? Mattie. Jesus.
The name has to change.
Matt: Wha
Really? I-I--
Jen:
I sent him a study
about how people
don't hire candidates
with black-sounding names.
What people?
And who says that-that
:
Selome sounds black.
Gatekeepers!
Okay, the gatekeepers, right.
I'd say it sounds African.
Jen:
Mattie, it's fucking science.
Get with the program.
-Do you have any idea--
-Jen: And you want
to further disable her.
-Matt: Do you hear
what you sound like?
-Jen: Yes!
Like a concerned mother.
Matt:
Okay. Hey, okay.
We'll decide on another name.
Sorry. It's
new parenting stress.
It's fine.
I totally get it.
You don't, but that's
nice of you to say.
I mean
I feel like
making movies
it's a bit like
birthing children.
Really?
Joel: I mean, I'm in
the process right now.
Don't listen to anything I say.
You're in the process?
Do you, uh
You writing something?
I am, yes.
Matt:
Oh.
You-- So you'll
be in it as well or?
-That's the plan.
Who will direct?
Me, as well.
Wow, that's--
That's incredible.
How's it going?
What's it about?
Tell us more.
I still haven't
Matt:
Yeah.
That just sort of happens.
I don't know,
this language,
it's not her mother tongue.
You know, it comes out.
Psychiatrist says
it's, uh, PTSD
from the war in
:
in Malawi or Madagascar.
-Jen: Malawi.
-Matt: Malawi.
♪
Joel:
I want to play him.
-Tom: That's illegal.
Tom:
You can't go
full blackface.
I mean, the whole Rameses
thing already, come on.
You said that was a net win.
Yeah, key word "net."
I mean, there were
losses suffered.
Not him.
-Him.
-Thank God.
Joel:
In the background.
Tom:
Who
Joel:
Yeah, him.
Tom:
You can barely see him.
I know.
But he's there.
What is a guy like that
doing in a place like that?
My thoughts exactly.
What is he doing there?
Why would he sacrifice so much
-to help those kids.
-Bro, this thing's
like 40 pages.
I could be wrong,
but I think you need more--
I have researched the guy.
He's fascinating.
Ex-Navy SEAL decides to become
a missionary in Africa.
So?
The character sells itself.
So, like a
"zero dark continent"
type of thing?
We can get France
to pre-buy.
We only need
like two million.
Yeah, I hear it is
pretty affordable
to shoot in Africa.
-And tell packaging
-Especially right now.
the potential for this,
is fucking unlimited.
Okay.
All right.
It's not a bad idea,
but here's the thing.
The first thing
you gotta do,
you gotta get somebody
to play your sidekick,
your homie.
Hmm?
Kevin Hart.
Jamie Foxx.
Michael B., what's up?
Mahershala. Denzel.
You never been to Africa?
Lakeith, stop talking
for a second.
Chadwick, I mean,
what do I have to do here?
Okay.
Hey, is Jayden around?
I hear you, Lupita.
What's happening
to black women
in this country
right now, it's
Uh, listen, before you go,
you have Octavia's number?
No, no, no.
The white guy in that
was, like
Jeffrey Wright.
Hey, this is an important movie.
This is not bullshit.
-These are your orphans.
-Action. Okay.
Uh, hold-- hold on.
I'm gonna have
to call you back.
These are the orphans.
Oh.
These aren't gonna work.
We need real orphans.
We need a real kid.
This is why we have
to shoot in the Congo.
Oh, the producers say
that we can shoot
in studio for the Congo.
-Those fucking suits.
-And I can't say I disagree.
The light!
The light is different.
It's the African sun,
for Christ's sake.
It's like melanin,
natural light.
It's gonna be great.
It's different, it's better.
Listen,
the ship has sailed.
-The tickets are booked.
Executive Producer
:
Let me reiterate.
We are going
to shoot Toronto.
A studio in Toronto
for Kinshasa, okay?
They have a huge
population of
Somalis here
that can pass
for Congolese.
Uh, we locked the amputees
for our cluster bomb victims.
There is no turning back.
Just focus on doing it here.
It's gonna be great.
Newswoman:
Here's what
he tweeted out.
This is a photo of him,
smiling at four young
children,
along with the
Nelson Mandela quote,
"No one is born
hating another person
because of the color
of his skin."
Kendra:
It's a platitude
we've often heard.
But recent studies
are calling into question
the oft-heard cliché.
Scientists are now asking,
"Can white babies
be born racist?"
-I can't watch my shows.
If the actors
on the TV are black,
-the baby cries.
The second
I turn the channel
to a white show
Kendra:
Quoting Bob Callahan,
the head of maternal
and infant health
at the Center for
Chronic Disease
Prevention,
"In hospitals,
"pregnant black women
get different
"and often worse care
than their white
counterparts,
which contribute
to pregnancy-related
complications."
Nurse: And actually,
I'm gonna have
you sit here
so I can take your
blood pressure
before you leave.
So your blood pressure's
pretty high today.
-Okay.
Um, I'm gonna
re-dip your urine,
but either way,
I'm gonna send you,
um, to the hospital
for preeclampsia labs.
Patient:
Okay.
If they diagnose me
with preeclampsia,
they-- I have
to have the baby.
-Yeah! Yeah, I could die.
I just have had
a couple of friends
who've had preeclampsia,
and I'm not fucking
around with this.
-I gotta go to the hospital.
-Woman: Yes.
Do you know where
Labor and Delivery is?
Woman:
Uh, it's on the
Woman:
Hi. Labor and Delivery.
Man:
Uh, the clinic or are
you having pains?
-I need to get labs.
-Okay.
Just take this elevator
right here to the seventh.
Man 2: Miss!
You can't bring your camera
into the hospital.
First dose now,
and your second
-Woman: He's so zen.
Kendra:
The study has shown
that these inequities
are present at conception,
so it's no wonder
that white babies
act out their
inherited privileges
in their infancy.
Shaylah:
They think
they own the slide.
They think they own
the whole playground.
Shaylah: Do you see
that your kid just
pushed my kid?
They're like, "What are
you talking about," like
it didn't even happen.
If they don't see it,
how could their kids
see him?
Interviewer:
Why is he the ugly child?
'Cause he's brown-- black.
Doctor:
What we find
over and over again
is that it seems that we're,
at a deep level, built to
to not like individuals
who are different
from ourselves
and to prefer those
who are similar to us.
Kendra:
These findings raise
an urgent question.
Excluding the obvious
Sangeresque solution,
abortion
:
can white supremacist
babies be stopped?
Joel:
Thank you.
Thank you.
There's just not enough
pain in the eyes.
That kid was actually
a child soldier.
Well
I just feel like
he looks
like
you know.
-Okay.
Hmm.
Joel:
How you doing, today?
Fine.
So, first, I'm just gonna
have a look at you.
I want you to
look me in the eye and
I want you to think
of the most painful experience
that you've ever endured.
-Thank you.
He's the one.
He's the one.
Yeah. Totally.
♪
We gotta get these--
We gotta get these kids
outta here right now.
Hmm? Oh, sorry.
Hang on.
Sorry.
Assistant Director:
Uh, you're-- you're
bringing them
into your family,
and for what?
-Joel: Hey, sorry.
Joel:
Uh, where are the--
Where are the Janjaweed?
These-- these are
the Janjaweed.
Yeah.
No, the Janjaweed
have horses.
They can't be on foot.
And they've got AR-15s,
that's not accurate.
Yeah, but
I mean, the Janjaweed
are North Sudanese,
-and the film takes
place in the Congo--
-No, no.
That's beside the point.
Remember-- remember
what I told you?
We're using the concept
of the Janjaweed
as the antagonist,
because it conjures up
the big bad wolf that's
so firmly planted itself
into the consciousness
of popular American culture.
Yeah. I know, I know.
I know, but
what I'm saying is,
unfortunately,
our Janjaweed don't know
how to ride our horses.
All of our stunt riders
are white.
I mean, we could
put some makeup
on our stunt riders,
and just use these guys
in the close-- Oh.
Use them in the close-ups
and it would be--
Woman:
You starved casting
from day one.
I mean, this--
this was bound to happen!
-If this was a budgetary issue--
-Joel: What the fuck! Shh!
You should have
raised it weeks ago!
-Joel, we're fucked.
-Joel: Hey, morale.
What happened?
Woman:
There was
a misunderstanding.
-He's not showing up.
I mean, we need him today.
His scenes are today, but
We could push him
a few days, maybe,
but we're gonna
lose half of the--
He's not coming at all.
Like, ever?
The fucking fuck
fucked us.
-Here.
:
Hey, what's up, man.
Um, I hate leaving
voicemails, so I'm
gonna keep it quick.
There's a
misunderstanding,
apparently.
I got-- I got the call sheet
and all that,
the schedule and shit
a couple days ago,
for that script you had sent
about the Navy SEAL,
and, um
um, I thought it was funny
you going to a fucking Kinko's
and printing out
fake call sheets,
that's adorable,
but, in fact,
you are not joking
about making a fucking
white savior film.
It seems that you are, indeed,
going to shoot this thing.
I just, um
Jesse: I know we can't be--
we can't be friends anymore.
-Jesse: Good luck, buddy.
I don't really mean that.
-Jesse: And Don already
made Hotel Rwanda.
And he killed it.
Oscar noms,
the whole deal.
-The shit--
-We cut his character.
We can't do that.
It's what we're doing.
No.
Because then
the whole movie
is about my character,
and that is not the story
that I set out to make.
And I am not making that movie.
I know. I know it's a
tough pill to swallow.
-No, that is fucking bullshit.
-It is. Come on.
-That is bullshit.
-Let me just talk
to you for a second.
Just for a minute.
A year from now
you're sitting in the 11th row
of the Dolby Theater.
Awards Presenter:
And here are the nominees
for Best Picture.
You hear
your name called.
Awards Presenter:
Valley in the
Light of Darkness.
Executive Producer:
And all of this
will seem hilarious
(presenter continues
indistinctly)
Executive Producer:
'cause you will have
made this movie,
and in doing so
Award Presenter:
And the award for
best picture goes to
Executive Producer:
you'll have made
the world a better place.
Charmaine:
Are-- are you
listening to me?
Hmm? Yep.
The kid doesn't want
to wear a black tux.
Why? Is there
something wrong?
Well, he says,
"When celebrating the life
of the dead in my culture,
we wear white."
I got a-- a white bow tie
in my top drawer.
-He can borrow that.
-Won't work.
He says that black pants
and jacket attract demons,
-and devils, that kind of--
-Charmaine!
That is mighty racist
of you to imply
that a African child's
spiritual practices are demonic.
I didn't say that.
-Yes, you--
We gotta talk.
Alone. Now.
Tom:
Oh my God,
your character.
He's not dead.
No, no, no.
I told Bob.
I'm not changing
the end of the movie
for the Blu-ray.
-No, no.
-He has to martyr himself.
No, for God sakes,
I'm not talking about
the movie character!
-I'm talking about
the real guy.
The
The guy in the video
you showed me.
What?
Stanley
What the fuck's his name?
Stanley Whakensky.
Stanley Whakensky!
He's not dead!
Oh, no. No, no.
He is dead.
I saw it on Google.
Nope.
He's alive on Google.
And he's alive
in the criminal justice system
of the Congo,
where he was
recently arrested
for raping African children
-African children
in a refugee camp,
near the border of Burundi.
My God!
Oh my God!
This is so bad.
We gotta get ahead of this.
We gotta get way
ahead of this.
:
So if you win,
which you will,
of course,
you must talk about
-Hey!
It's based
on a true story.
Award Presenter:
And the award
for Best Picture
It's who we will be
-goes to
-not who we are.
Valley in the
Light of Darkness!
♪
First, I wanna thank Africa.
The whole continent.
Uh, making this film
was, um
trial by fire.
It was painful
and, uh, absurd
and transcendent
in equal measure.
'Cause you know what?
On the other side
of that pain,
we have birthed a film that
speaks to the necessity
of everyone in this room
to dedicate your time
and your-- your effort
into healing what--
what we've broken.
And to inspire on
the African continent hope,
and love,
and
Uh, li--
Woman: Do you have
any advice for a young girl
moving to Hollywood?
Brie Larson:
And the Oscar goes
to Casey Affleck.
Terence:
The liberal bastions of
Hollywood and Silicon Valley
have been revealed
as little more than
a stag party.
No one is safe
from a white man
with a gun or a bomb.
Racist-raping tyrants
are in possession
of nuclear weapons
in America, Israel,
Saudi Arabia,
and North Korea.
-Good to finally meet you.
-Absolutely.
I've heard that you're
actually the devil incarnate.
I'm glad to meet you.
Terence: It's a character
flaw that they are blind
to themselves
and the characters
they create.
Breaking Bad
as a cultural phenomenon
peaked in 2013.
There's a lot of people
who can relate
to this character.
Terence:
I've been thinking.
Does get
elected president
without the existence
of Walter White?
Let's backtrack
a little bit.
America's first
box office hit
came in 1915
with Birth of a Nation.
The Civil War
and Reconstruction epic
was a Ku Klux Klan
recruiting tool,
and the first
motion picture to screen
at the White House.
-Not blackface.
Movies and television
are propaganda.
It's no coincidence
the Cold War gave rise
to the action hero
or that Hollywood
set the table
for an affable,
non-threatening
black president.
Our society will continue.
Work will go on.
You will pay your bills.
Terence:
Can I read you a quote
from Fight Club?
"Men I see in Fight Club
are the strongest
"and smartest men
that ever lived.
"An entire generation
pumping gas
and waiting tables,
: "slaves
with white collars.
"We've all been
raised on television
to believe that one day
"we'd all be millionaires
and movie gods
and rock stars.
"But we won't,
and we're slowly
learning that fact,
and we're very,
very pissed off."
Now think about
that quote in the context
of what happened
in Charlottesville.
Terence:
The alt-right's term
"snowflake,"
which roughly
translated means
a white man who's
been emasculated,
-was coined
in the book Fight Club.
Now, could Fight Club
have inspired
the alt
Let me explain what
we mean by "inspire."
The White Devil,
also known as
the anti-hero,
is an archetypal
character trope.
White Devils are
white men and women
thrust into situations
in which they are surrounded
by other white characters,
who do not possess
their preternatural level
of genius or skill.
The wrinkle is that
the White Devil
is his or her
own antagonist.
Often, some embodiment
of their Jungian shadow
consistently pervades
their life and
relationships.
God damn it!
Terence Winter:
You know, I-I understood
how Tony thought.
So it was very easy for me
to slip into that guy.
Terence:
The power that this
shadow generates
is the key source
of the White Devils'
exceptional
technical genius.
Claire Danes:
Carrie is brilliant.
And part of her brilliance
has to do with her
being bipolar.
Terence: The White Devils'
narrative function
is to win
in the battle against
his or her shadow self,
and make sure
the dark energy
that their
shadow self generates
is used for good.
It's a character flaw
that they are blind
to themselves
in the characters
they create.
♪
The heroes and protagonists
of their literature
and films
reek of the same oversight.
An uncharacteristic value
that they solve,
but instantly
deepen and broaden
their perspective.
This was the flaw
they worshiped.
Question.
Have you thought about
what makes these
characters compelling?
Why them?
Why their stories?
I don't see Don
as an anti-hero.
Uh, Don doesn't kill people.
He is situationally moral.
Vince Gilligan:
Just boom,
into my head.
Suddenly, it struck me
that what would be
interesting to me
as a viewer
and as a writer,
would be, what if this was,
like, essentially me?
Terence:
Why them?
Is it because white people
are the best at everything?
Not only the best cops,
but also the best
drug dealers?
I ask because
Breaking Bad is a show
about a guy who has
the American dream.
But when his mortality
is threatened,
he has to turn
to a life of crime.
In order to survive,
he has to tap into a rage
that's always been there,
just below the surface.
In doing so, he embraces
his Jungian shadow,
and goes from
impotent to virile.
Clearly, the surname
"White" is symbolic
of this archetypal
pathology, but
to what degree is
Breaking Bad
intentionally about
white men's
pathological fragility?
To what degree
is this show intentionally
inspiring white men
to re-establish
their social
and cultural dominance?
Given the aforementioned,
did Walter White
intentionally inspire
the popular resurgence
of the alt
Matt Dillon:
The atrocities
we commit in our fiction
are those inner desires
which we cannot commit
in our controlled
civilization.
Terence: That said,
the alt-right is not new
or phenomenal
in any way.
So given that stasis,
why do these
characters persist?
They persist because
the White Devil archetype
in contemporary film
and television functions
as yet another display
of white male dominance
and social power,
by framing the
Jungian shadow
as a source of
white male cultural
and social centrality.
Its function is
to peacock.
To put on display
a shadow-fueled virility
and acumen.
The desired effect is
for the melanated masses
to hesitate
before challenging
white supremacy.
Their hope is that,
in any moment
of resistance,
no matter how big
or small,
they, us,
we
will remember
that the white person
or institution
they are resisting
has a devil inside them,
an amoral devil
that will not
concede defeat
under any circumstances.
I am not
seeking forgiveness.
What's the matter?
I had a nightmare.
Again?
It was little white girls
and little white boys.
I dreamt that one day,
on the red hills of Georgia,
the sons of former slaves
and the--
In Georgia?
Roy Harper:
I used to have a picture
of a white man,
with a sandwich in his hand,
with the world in it.
This song came out of that.
Far across the ocean ♪
In the land of
look and see ♪
There once was a time ♪
For you and me ♪
And where the
crazy white man ♪
In the desert
of his bones ♪
Lies as bleached
as the paradise ♪
He likes to think he owns ♪
And I hate the white man ♪
In his evergreen excuse ♪
Oh, I hate the white man ♪
And the man who
turned you all loose ♪
I'll be right back.
It's not that much.
You got White Angel,
White Devil,
then White Racist Babies.
And then White Thoughts.
Lazercism.
You know, some
Listen, we already
talked about this.
I told you before.
We cannot spend
all that time on whiteness.
That obviously
was not the plan.
Man, don't listen to him.
Man, you gotta give
the people what they want.
And they can only want
what they know.
And they know
how to laugh
:
"Oh, look at white people.
They want to touch my hair.
"They all smell
like Lemon Pledge.
"They all clap on
one and three,
white people,
white people, etc. etc."
Pink:
And yet, here we are.
Green:
I met this pretty cool
white dude the other day.
I think he was white,
I mean, that's how
he described himself, but
when they say that,
I'm not exactly sure
what they mean,
'cause when I think
of the color white,
-I think of cumulus clouds
and cake frosting.
-Pink: Listen. Focus!
Consciousness shift.
Re-centering us, etc.
What have you.
Let's get this paper.
I'm serious.
Bruh, you not changing nothing.
-Nigga, you just not.
Listen, I know what
y'all are sayin'
that the inutility of art
is where its
mysterious power lies.
But if these
devil motherfucks
can get their
propaganda out,
and you know,
dig their mines and shit,
and get their paper
and get their people elected,
-and generally execute on
their strategies and shit--
-Terence: And get results.
-Results!
-But how does one
qualify results.
-Let me finish, let me finish.
-That is totally
not the same thing.
-It's a false--
-If their strategies
can bear fruit,
then why can't mine?
Why can't my propaganda
start a populace uprising
-that wipes away white
supremacy and patriarchy?
A white ghost.
And stops people
from eating Hot Cheetos
for breakfast and shit.
-Yellow: Uh-uh! No!
Not I! No! No!
There is no space in my head
for no motherfucking ofay!
You are not payin'
enough rent
to live in my
motherfuckin' mind!
Plus, these motherfuckers
who funded this show
did not put no real
motherfucking money
into the fuckin' vision.
I wonder why!
I wonder why!
-I wonder why!
My rent went up
last year, too.
He's right.
Yellow:
so that they can feel like,
"Oh, you know, Terence"
Come on.
We gotta keep it moving.
Yellow:
No more Mr. Motherfucking
Nice Terence!
No more
Mr. Nice Terence!
I'm goin' fuckin' full
capitalism on their ass.
Today!
No grateful, humble.
No motherfuckin' I.
You know, I'm so hot,
I'm gonna fuck it up.
-(Yellow continues
yelling, indistinct)
Terence:
What up, world?
It's Terence Nance here.
Welcome to
Random Acts of Flyness,
-a variety show about--
Terence:
Fuck!
-Terence: God damn it.
-Officer: What the fuck
is wrong with you?
You can't be riding a bike
and texting at the same time.
Officer, I was not texting.
I was filming
my television show.
Gene:
Excuse me!
Officer:
Who the hell is this guy?
I'm, uh, I'm Gene Whitemon.
I'm Mr. Nance's
white witness. Hi.
-I can attest that Mr. Nance
did absolutely no wrong.
I saw it with
my own two eyes.
Why didn't you tell me
you had a white witness, kid?
I was trying to not
center whiteness.
He's a nice guy.
It's really fine.
Listen, we good here?
'Cause I
You gotta keep
this guy close to you.
I gotta go, 'cause
I got more takes to do.
♪
DIAMOND STINGLY:
A lot of my work has to do with
mainly the women in my family.
They're beautiful,
they're super courageous.
Just looking at my family,
and being like,
"Oh, like, we survived a lot."
So I just wanted
to make something
that represents black femininity
and black girlhood.
♪
STINGLY: Because black women
are misrepresented
like all the time.
We come across, like, aggressive
when we're just,
like, assertive.
I think art is supposed to
start conversations,
make things relatable
for people.
I don't like art
that's supposed to intimidate.
I think art is supposed
to be for everybody.
I'm doing this
'cause I feel like
I have no other choice
but to do it.
I do it 'cause I, like,
genuinely, like, enjoy it.
Also, I have no PR training,
so I speak how I feel.
I'm not out here trying
to be something that I'm not.
I'm Diamond from the block.