This Friday The Manchurian Candidate opnes (Wednesday in New York), and a fascinating phenomenon has been happening on movie message boards.
First, there are the usual "How dare you remake a classic" rants from the cinematically pure. But equal bandwidth is being taken up by posters who feel that having Denzel Washingtonin the Frank Sinatra role is an attack against white people. The complaints are that the movie shows blacks as smart, hip and patriotic while whites are portrayed as evil, duplicitous and underhanded.
Fuinny, such analysis never seemed to penetrate when the races were reversed.
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister