Spoiler Alert: What Will Smith's new movie 'Focus ' tells us about racial intolerance "will smith"

"Focus" is causing controversy - not because the hero is a thief, or a heroine playing a "game badger" with businessmen drunk, or has some jokes raw sex or to have even a Spanish representative plays the nerd Persian often called Fatass.


No, "Focus" is in trouble because of human leadership is handsome Will Smith. Her leading lady is sexy Margot Robbie. The two go to bed. A couple of times.

It appears that this should not be tolerated.

Only by reading the comments under any trailers have on YouTube or other sites and see how long it takes before the words and phrases such as "disgusting," "race mixing" and "Jews in Hollywood" start popping.

I wish I could say I'm surprised. I'm not well. For years, the development of any ethnic couple in love story was something that Hollywood has tried very hard to avoid. Although there are some exceptions - most notably "personal guard" - put a black man and a white woman in a love story? This was almost banned.


And can appear in a serious drama, such as Spike Lee, "Jungle Fever" or Todd Haynes, "away from the sky" --films that title race, prejudice and face-to-face. But the images of black masculinity - especially when sharing the screen with images of femininity white - still seems to make some people very nervous.

We had a racist fears and clear, especially in the "Lethal Weapon" the years after, when there was a wave of white buddy / action comedy black friends. The problem, though, was that the texts usually called the fight against the two men more than women. Therefore, they are. They do not cast a black or white represented one?

Do not. They threw Latina actress - and did so, again and again, in films from "white men can not jump" and "Money Train" to "fled" and "Wild Wild West".
Such a solution does not seem bad at first. Was a multi-mysterious cultures, and although it was based on a typical picture him - and fiery Latina - he gave a number of actresses (Rosie Perez, Salma Hayek, Eva Mendes, even Jennifer Lopez) some Hollywood roles first big-budget.


But it was a cowardly move, and that fear is based on the ugly - that no one wants to be a black man sees on the screen with a white woman.

Nor is it always simply the reaction of some white person. It's interesting that usually canny career Will Smith took to make the jump to "focus." Few of the contracts and other African-American actors would dare something like this. And it was not necessarily because they were afraid of the response will kiss the white woman brings masses of white males. It was, some would say to you off the record, and they were afraid of the response from the audience of black women. (Ever wonder why Denzel Washington demanded that they drop the love scenes written from "Man on Fire" with Radha Mitchell, or "The Pelican Brief" with Julia Roberts? Insiders say you should not wonder too hard.)

There is kind of sad meaning to it. Think about how few men than black lead and there in the movies. And then narrow it down to a further decline leading to black men cast in the big-screen romances. How many of these movies are made? How to get any kind of real distribution? Let's see, last year we had a "Beyond the Lights." And some comedies and wide such as "About Last Night" and "also as a man of thought." This was to a large extent.

And even when they do finally cast a real love story with a black man leading, then cast a white woman as his partner, what kind of message that may be sent to an audience of black women who do not want to only two hours of fantasy cute? How good do you think that makes them feel?

So you can see why modern movies in black and white still can make some studios, the stars, and nervousness.

But even with that knowledge, you have to hope that we will be past that point now. We should be able to see a film like "Focus" and just thinking, damn, those are two good-looking. We should be able to see the film, which, he says Ryan Gosling and Lupita Neung - or Angelina Jolie and Idris Elba - are a couple on the screen and not think twice.

Maybe we're getting there, slowly. Perhaps we will get there a little faster as more and more beautiful performance artists multiethnic get roles as well, and begin to break all the man-made structures have about race, identity and beauty and a certain slot everyone needs to be assigned at birth - and stay in.

But we're not there yet. The revolt against the "Focus" shows, we still have a way to go

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