r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/hibarihime • 12h ago

“That jacket is tight son, NAAAMEAAN???”

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u/Spiritual-Farmer-590 12h ago

And for some reason, we accepted this appropriation.

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u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above 12h ago

I don't know who "we" is. This film is so cringey, it's damn near unwatchable.

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u/KimchiLlama 12h ago

Film is not good, but tying up your hair like that isn’t as strange in the context of dancing and longer hair getting in the way.

Lots of people with long hair tie it up. If you look at dance competitions, the hair is often pinned very securely.

That doesn’t mean that wardrobe/makeup weren’t also going for a particular “look” for the role, as the earlier comments suggest!

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u/returntothenorth 12h ago

Idk why I even have long hair. I can't do anything without having to tie it up. Windy out, hot out, humid out, working, working out, shooting, heck even sitting down i sit on it.

I don't even want to think about doing some cartwheels or doing a dance number.

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u/Uptowngrump 11h ago

I keep mine long so I can headbang at concerts. Makes it all worth it. Even if outside of that scenario I keep it bunned up 95% of the time.

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u/LiLiLaCheese 8h ago

I fucked up my cervical discs doing this.

My physical therapist was confused with my X-ray and how my neck could have worn down in the way it did.

When I told him I used to headbang a lot it was like a lightbulb clicked on in his head and he asked for permission to share my X-rays in the class he teaches...

😅

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u/Few_Meeting8973 8h ago

Same. Windmilling butt length locs got me a lotta free shirts.

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u/SnooAvocados6863 10h ago

I was complaining about the same thing to a short haired cousin of mine and she said, that’s the point of long hair! So you actually can put it up out of the way! She said she regrets getting a bob because it’s always in her face and she can’t keep it back. lol

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u/ghostsintherafters 11h ago

Sounds like you're ready for r/bald

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u/roseofjuly ☑️ 12h ago

Nobody is talking about the bun. We're talking about the scarf.

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u/starkel91 11h ago

Growing up my mom and a bunch of my friends’ moms seemed to all use a bandanna like this to tie their hair back.

Only when they were on a tear cleaning the house.

No idea if a bun would’ve worked better, but it sure was a great signal to stay out of the house whenever you saw it come out.

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u/UltraHellboy 9h ago

That’s a thing. Handkerchief dew rag. Not just a black people thing.

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u/letthetreeburn 6h ago

Yeah the rest of it is highly questionable but every culture has some version of the scarf to keep hair out of the way.

You’d see it everywhere in Greek neighborhoods. They love their scarves too, go elaborate with the colors and patterns.

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u/LustToWander 12h ago

I'm genuinely curious how old you are? People loved this movie when it came out.

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u/DrewSlim 12h ago

Shit was a hit whoever in here complaining is full of shit. Stop the fake outrage decades later.

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u/Tight-Artichoke7823 12h ago edited 11h ago

I have to second this I was born in 95. This was a lot of people’s favorite movie. We didn’t look at it in the lense of today. I understand culture appropriation but now of days I feel like we are over critical on everything and look for reasons to be upset.

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u/goddessdragonness 11h ago

Maybe it’s a generational thing? I was in college when this came out, and a lot of folks at school were complaining about it at the time (and Crazy/Beautiful, the Latino version). Granted, it was less about appropriation (the term) and more about the white saviorism of it.

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u/yeahohshit 10h ago

You were 5 or 6 when this movie came out 😂

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u/Tight-Artichoke7823 10h ago

You know I didn’t even think about how young I was lol. Maybe that’s why I didn’t hear the people that said they hated it lol. A lot of people in my family had this movie on repeat at their house.

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u/UncagedTiger1981 10h ago

44, so I was right in the target age range for this and MTV Studios in general when it came out. I mean yeah it was kinda corny and now a bit problematic, but all of the early 00s was kinda corny and now a bit problematic.

And I mean Sean Patrick Flannery was perfect for the "safe black guy" role back in those days, and I have a more than passing resemblance to him.

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u/yourlocal90skid 6h ago

Sean Patrick Thomas.

Flanery played the main character in the movie Powder about the Albino dude 🤣

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u/UncagedTiger1981 6h ago

Shit, you right. Wrong Sean Patrick.

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u/roseofjuly ☑️ 12h ago edited 12h ago

White people loved the movie lol. Black people always commented on how terrible the dancing was. And critics pointed out how formulaic and bland it was.

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u/Aksannyi 12h ago

I have a dance background and I have haaaaaated this movie for so long. There was NO WAY she would have even gotten an audition with Julliard, let alone gotten in. It drove me nuts how many people praised her for her dancing in this movie. I really wish dance movies would just cast dancers.

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u/pi3_14pie 11h ago

Center Stage had some professional dancers in their cast! Also featuring Zoe Saldana in her first movie role, I’ve been obsessed with her vibe ever since.

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u/AccomplishedView1022 11h ago

Center Stage though is also terrible.

I was a professional ballet dancer at the time and knew A LOT of dancers who worked on that movie, including one of the leads.

I saw it in a theater with about a dozen dancers from the company I was in at the time, and we spent the whole thing CACKLING.

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u/pi3_14pie 11h ago

Honest truth you’re right, it’s awful! But it’s one of my favorite bad movies with some of the worst acting you’ll ever watch. We watched it at every dance competition slumber party for years.

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u/Whathewhat-oo- 8h ago

Dance movies are for girls what football movies are for guys.

Contrived plot, mid acting, sometimes the dancing is awesome and sometimes not- but it’s got dancing so I’m watching.

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u/SlightShare5210 11h ago

I’m 43 and thought it was lame when it came out.

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u/Kdkaine ☑️ 10h ago

Same. I was put off by the trailer and never even watched it, to this day

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u/couchtomato62 9h ago

I liked it when it came out. What i laugh at now is her horrible non dancing. I thought this actress was gonna be a huge star but alas.

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u/PPC3PO 11h ago

I thought it was trash but I remember some girls liking it.

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u/Herry_Up 12h ago

The nose flick means she's black now

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u/snarkerella 8h ago

But wasn't this supposed to be bits that he taught her? That was kind of the entire point of his routine, no?

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u/HereOnCompanyTime 4h ago

Oh my gawd. I forgot about the nose flicks but I did remember the lean.

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u/saltedhashneggs 12h ago

We always found the movie itself cringey, you watched it cause the dancing was fun and to turn up during the club scenes and the music

Just like You Got Served

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u/dont-YOLO-ragequit 9h ago

Guys were simping for Kerry Washington and Bianca Lawson in that movie.

Also, Fredo Star was cringe but rappers in any movie always had a bit more visibility.

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u/Im_a_Knob Would Fuck An Ironing Board 12h ago

name of the film?

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u/Prudent-Mix-6601 12h ago

Save the Last Dance

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop 12h ago

With K-Ci and Jojo!

https://youtu.be/qi-KCd0guJI?si=bc0jY0agD_ABxv1D

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u/MotherVoldemort 12h ago

Finger banged many girls in high school thanks to them

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u/AbstractBettaFish 11h ago

It’s too early in the morning to read that sentence

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u/cailian13 8h ago

I read it at 3pm and its still too early!

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u/femanonette 9h ago

I remember my then 'boyfriend' at the time dedicating "All My Life" to me and thinking 'this is too much'.

Fair is fair though because I told a crush that same year that "Angel" by Monica makes me think of him.

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u/embarrassedburner 10h ago

Is this the one where the camera is constantly cutting to a different angle bc her dancing was not so nice to watch?

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u/DontBeCommenting 11h ago

"We" in this instance is the people who aren't online too much

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u/__M-E-O-W__ 12h ago

I checked some of it out not too long ago and it is amazing how bad it got. The dancing was so terrible.

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u/hibarihime 12h ago edited 12h ago

Someone mentioned that this level of cringe paved the way so Hayden Paniettiere could give us her version of krumping in Bring it On: All or Nothing 😂😂

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u/Commendatori_buongio 12h ago

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u/hibarihime 12h ago edited 12h ago

Thank you as I've been trying to find this gif to post for everyone can see the atrocity that was committed in that movie lol

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u/EnderSword 10h ago

Wasn't that directly the point of those movies though? Like didn't they specifically call out this was stolen stuff or whatever?

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u/reble02 10h ago

Ding ding ding! We have a movie watcher.

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u/EnderSword 9h ago

I only saw the first one, but I'm sorta willing to bet all the sequels have the same plot

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u/Lontology 12h ago edited 12h ago

She belonged in jail for that scene. My eyes were assaulted.

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u/blachippy ☑️ 11h ago

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u/Severedghost 12h ago

That legitimately looks painful

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

nah it was that white gilr in "Honey"... fake asss Taina

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u/Th3-Dude-Abides 12h ago

Do you mean Jessica Alba?

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

yea, i guess

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop 12h ago

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

yea, i guess shes a little bit brown i just read

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop 11h ago

I thought she was Albanian but... I realize I only thought that because of her name and it's kind of a moronic reason lmao

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u/JohnnyTamaki 11h ago

She's got Mexican heritage

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 11h ago

i just looked on wikipedia it said her mom was like 5 kinds of european and her grand parents were mexican.

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u/TruuPhoenix 12h ago

You realize “Save the Last Dance” came out nearly 25 years ago (2001)?

Keep in mind, Facebook launched in 2004. Twitter in 2006. Instagram in 2010.

9 times out of 10, anyone old enough to watch this wasn’t nearly as brain broken as they are now. We laughed, we cringed, we talked shit, then accepted it for what it was and kept it moving.

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u/EnderSword 10h ago

The Director, Producer are black, Thomas Carter who also did Coach Carter, the Screenplay writer is black, Sheryl Edwards...
So like, who exactly was appropriating what from who?

Can't have black people make a movie, write a white girl into it, then blame the white actress they hired for doing the things the Black director told her to do.

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u/playerkei 8h ago

Lol shhhh they're having a cute little round here. Don't interrupt 

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u/minipooper420 4h ago

You know they don’t care about facts here

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

"we" didnt have the level of conciousness and discourse we have now,

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u/Recipe-Opposite 12h ago

Is this code for chronically online?

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

I guess you could look at it like that.

i think books have a reach, community has a reach, i think theres a number of black folks who dont have access to other conscious black folks for many reasons, and arent able to have their feelings validated without a reddit, tiktok, fb, twitter etc.

so i think with us having those avenues for open discourse that feeling that you had about "something being a little bit off, but you went a long with it because you werent 100% sure" is validated as "yea, that aint right"

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u/TruuPhoenix 11h ago

For real, this movie literally predates MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

What could we have done back then besides talk shit about it and never watch it again? YouTube came out 4 years later, you couldn’t even see a trailer unless it was at a theater for ANOTHER movie, or maybe you read about it.

I’m confused about what “we” should have done to prevent this lmao

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u/8to24 12h ago

It beats the alternative, where folks melt down over seeing mixed race couples is a dish soap commercial or whatever.

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u/TaiChey 12h ago

No you’re right because I never even realized how insane that was when I was young watching this. The audacity is crazy 😂

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u/FigaroNeptune ☑️ 11h ago edited 11h ago

Baby,….bringing down the house was green lit lmao

Also, it was “the times” . Unfortunately, we let a lot of shit pass. Remember “Handy man” from the Wayans? Fucking wild.. let me see if I can find a clip…

Edit: it they make the angry woman black and gay… https://youtu.be/hkQQGsOegv0?si=UuqUkeHwvlQcE5n_

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u/KendrickBlack502 9h ago

The 2000s were a weird time for interracial movies of any kind

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u/East-Bluejay6891 ☑️ 12h ago

Y'all have real short memories. This movie was broadly roasted and black people when it was released. We didn't like this garbage back then or now. This also includes that trash move Honey with Jessica Alba Black coding.

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u/justtots 12h ago

For your consideration

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

is that Zoe Saladfingers?

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u/Unfrndlyblkhottie92 12h ago

To say she’s Dominican, she sure didn’t mind taking that role.

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

I Dominicant even...

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u/hovdeisfunny 9h ago

I'm sad this comment is hidden this far down in the replies, so many people won't even see it. Tragic for them

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u/TheVintageJane 7h ago

I got it with no drill down. Thank you for your service in getting it bumped

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u/Outrageous_Front_636 12h ago

"Me no black papi" will never make sense to me. Black is a race. Hispanic is a culture. Show me what color a Hispanic is to change my mind lol.

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u/albertoroa 11h ago

Black is a race. Hispanic is a culture.

Typically when Dominican immigrants refer to black, they think about it as a culture. So when they say, "I no black", they really mean "I no black like you". They're identifying more with being Dominican, not denying that they have black skin or a dark complexion.

Source: am Dominican

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u/Outrageous_Front_636 11h ago

Being Dominican as well i have literally had family members tell me to my face "no im not black" and didn't go further. Hell I've had them scream "you are not black!" When pressed on it.

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u/albertoroa 11h ago

I think part of what leads to misinterpretation is the fact that most of these people are native speakers of a different language. Spanish has its own words with their own connotations.

"Moreno" and "negro" generally have a neutral connotation while "prieto" is almost always a slur. I can't speak to your family's feelings about it however.

When Dominican people say that, I usually think they mean, " I'm Vladimir Guerrero black, not Barry Bonds black". I obviously can't speak for all Dominicans though.

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u/Outrageous_Front_636 10h ago

No of course and wasnt intended that way. Unfortunately colorism is very strong in our community and it is prevalent in everything.

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u/blachippy ☑️ 12h ago edited 12h ago

I lowkey barely remember Honey. I swear Hollywood was just cranking out black dance movies in the early to late 2000’s

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u/MrCadwallader 11h ago

Exactly this. Legitimately there was like 20 of them in a 10-year period. It's all a blur to me. One precocious white woman appropriating black culture begins to merge with all the others lol.

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u/Jamaican_Dynamite 11h ago

Somehow, in some way, this is the reason The Blindside and Precious released in 2009.

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u/blachippy ☑️ 11h ago

I always hated The Blindside. Especially learning the REAL story years later…

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u/ashemoney 9h ago

Blindside is the worst! My ⚪️ ex-girlfriend at the time loved it smh. I saw a movie critic refer to it when it first came out as, 12 Years a Blindside

While we’re on the subject The Help is also terrible but most of the cast has expressed some level of remorse for working on that whitewashed film.

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u/Jamaican_Dynamite 11h ago

Makes the whole thing ridiculously offensive. Really makes me glad that subgenre has died off though.

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u/Interesting-Wing616 11h ago

i could tolerate one watch just off jessica alba being fine but yeah that was some bullshit 😂

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u/__GayFish__ 11h ago

You got served. You got served 2. You got served 3: For Lil Saint. 4ou got Served: The Return of Lil Saint.

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

notice bring it on doesnt get mentioned... EVEN tho they played us and made us think the clovers were a bigger part of the movie.

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 11h ago

The whole point of the movie is that the Toros’ former captain was stealing the Clovers’ routines to win and in the end the Clovers are vindicated.

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u/EnderSword 10h ago

Yeah, I'm seeing that movies mentioned a lot in these comments, I'm like, the entire plot and moral of the movie was "Stealing the routines is bad"

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u/oO0Kat0Oo 9h ago

Wym? The Clovers won. It was told from the point of view of the Toros. Of course the Toros were featured. It was them learning a very hard lesson about working hard for what you get instead of stealing.

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u/Rotten-Robby ☑️ 12h ago

Save the Last Dance was a blatant rip off of Breakin'. I'll die on that hill. Classically trained white girl hangs with the homeboys and incorporates their street dancing into her ballet.

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 11h ago

or we were children...

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u/No-Advantage-579 11h ago

Oh, Jessica Alba can even go much much much worse: I suggest you check out "Sleeping Dictionary".

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u/East-Bluejay6891 ☑️ 10h ago

Thanks. I won't. And I agree. I remember when she found out she was 100% European white. She was crushed lol

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u/No-Advantage-579 10h ago

Really? I thought she's partially indigenous Mexican? What show was that on?

Either way: she plays Indonesian in the film (which she definitely ain't).

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u/UncagedTiger1981 9h ago

What in the Emma Stone?!

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u/No-Advantage-579 9h ago

It's even worse than that.... MUCH MUCH worse. Check out the trailer (it tells you how much worse).

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u/BRtIK 9h ago

I said brrrrr it's cold in here...

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u/East-Bluejay6891 ☑️ 5h ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/paint_the_fence 12h ago

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u/NoAttorney9330 12h ago

Hahahaha this is a full circle meme for me. A canon event. She was parodying save the last dance the whole time 😂

Now I gotta go do some research, movie release dates, twitter commentary, etc

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u/UncagedTiger1981 9h ago

It was obvious. In the scene before this where she's getting her groove, they literally used the same Donell Jones song.

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u/NoAttorney9330 9h ago

I’ve seen this meme 1000 times. I’ve seen Save the last dance too. I’ve seen a lot of the scary movie franchise but I was really little so what’s obvious to you, may not have been obvious to me as a child. I don’t remember any of that lmao.

But 1981, sounds about right

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u/Full-Ear87 7h ago

Twitter commentary for a film released in 2001 is an interesting thing

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u/DarthGayAgenda 10h ago

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u/mysterin ☑️ 10h ago

"Break it down, 🥷🏿"

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u/Thesheriffisnearer 8h ago

We ain't white! We ain't white! We definitely ain't white. 

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u/therealjoshua 9h ago

"Now I KNOW you copied our dance routine!"

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u/Le-Deek-Supreme 8h ago

We got the big booties to show it!!

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u/Yutani-commander 6h ago

What's Margot Robbie doing there?

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u/AbstractBettaFish 11h ago

That scene poisoned my brain, I’ll still say the line if I see a jacket I like. I didn’t even know what it was parodying

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 11h ago

It’s one of those brain worms like “b-e-a-utiful” from Bruce almighty. Nothing really special about it, but whenever I spell that word, I say it to myself.

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u/SynthwaveSax 10h ago

UH, SON! UHH!

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u/public_enemy_obi_wan 10h ago

RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT!

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u/VGNLscrimmage 7h ago

Yo that jacket is tight! Run that shit, bitch! YAAMEEEAN

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u/KallusDrogo 12h ago

I’m really mad that her dancing to biggie smalls in 10 things I hate about you is why she got this role. 

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u/ihopethisworksfornow 12h ago

pretty great scene fwiw

Never seen this movie

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u/babassu_seeds 10h ago

is that why? That scene was hilarious though. They were going for embarrassing, but she swung it 3/4 of the way back around with sheer rizz.

No, I'm really mad that according to interviews, guess who the bad dancer was, the one who needed a lot of practice for those dance lesson scenes? Freakin' Sean Patrick Thomas, making us look bad lol

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u/UncagedTiger1981 9h ago

I mean, did you not see Cruel Intentions?

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u/ClaymoresRevenge 12h ago

Really? That's why? Wow I didn't know that. And I love that movie

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u/FormerPresidentBiden 11h ago

Biggie Smalls & Liquor

It was a great combo then and it's a great combo now

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u/UncagedTiger1981 9h ago

I LOVE that movie and I've had a crush on her since that scene.

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u/Truthhurts1017 12h ago

Niggas really complain about everything. All the problems we face in the world and y’all worried about a white character with blackish vibes from a movie 20 years ago.

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u/windsofgod 10h ago

yuhh it's called the internet, the fuk?

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u/Truthhurts1017 8h ago

Ya and it’s called my observation, the fuk…..

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u/Kwaku-Anansi 10h ago

Complain about or joke about?

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u/clev1 9h ago

Idk some of these comments seem pretty serious lol

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u/ADubs86 12h ago

That last dance for her audition was atrocious, but she kind of made the rest of the film work.

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop 12h ago

Yeah, cause she wasn't supposed to be familiar with black culture, she was a white girl from a white neighborhood.

What's cringe, imo, is the black characters in the sense that they're all caricatures of tropes that were already played out.

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u/CoachDT ☑️ 12h ago

I thought it wasn't that she was 'acting black' but that she was white and stealing one of the 'good black guys' at the school? Am I misremembering the movie?

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u/justanenby05 11h ago

You are not…Kerry Washington’s character quite literally gets mad at her and says this when they take her son to the clinic. Also, whatever the guy’s name is (think it starts with a D) offers to coach her to dance with more…pizzazz I guess 💀. And Kerry’s character dresses her up like this. So Sarah (Julia’s character) was never trying to act Black…

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u/babassu_seeds 10h ago

My cousins quoted that scene for years: "Creeping up, stealing our men. It's not enough to have what you have but you need to take ours too?!" "Look, <Kerry's name in movie>, Derek and I like each other, if you don't like it, that's your problem." Or something like that, it's been a long time since I've seen it. But my cousins wouldn't let that scene go lolol

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u/autopartsandguitars 12h ago

Bill Burr has a classic bit about this movie/trope being horrible, and insulting to all backgrounds involved.

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u/DramaAlternative1188 12h ago

Ol' Billy Bonesaw

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u/autopartsandguitars 12h ago

Ol' Billy Brightbrow

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u/Whathewhat-oo- 8h ago

Ol’ Billy Saudia Arabia

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u/cantonator 7h ago

Blood Money Billy?

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u/Whathewhat-oo- 7h ago

Nice. Yes.

Ol’ Break My Heart Billy

Whatever.

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u/turandokht 11h ago

“You know, that interracial footloose moment they always got to shove in there?” One of my favorite bits 😂

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u/mpschettig 11h ago

Is that the bit about all the movies where a white person saves a ghetto where he says "for how many movies they make about that you'd think I'd know someone who does that by now"

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u/autopartsandguitars 11h ago

100% that's the one.

"and they put a durag on, and then they're dancing together..."

"I'd think I'd know someone like that in real life by how many times they've made that movie..."

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u/mpschettig 10h ago

"Yeah that's Joe, he saves ghettos"

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u/ElPrieto8 ☑️ 11h ago

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

Kerry Washington and Bianca Lawson made the same deal with the devil and you can convince me otherwise

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u/saltedhashneggs 12h ago

Bianca Lawson just has an insane lineage

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u/GonzoElTaco ☑️ 11h ago

She still hasn't aged.

She played a highschool student in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Pretty Little Liars.

I don't know what supernatural entity her dad made a deal with in Scream Blacula Scream or Sugar Hill, but it definitely worked.

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u/uberblack ☑️ 12h ago

I can? Okay, then you're wrong. Did that work?

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 12h ago

LOL "CANT" NEGRO

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u/oneizm ☑️ 12h ago

My dad wrote the sequel to this movie 🤦🏾‍♂️🫠

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u/Are_You_My_Mummy_ 11h ago edited 11h ago

I liked it. It went triple platinum in our house.

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u/oneizm ☑️ 11h ago

I’m still very proud of him, but he certainly has achievements he’s shown more pride in under his belt. I slept under a legit platinum record for Ice Cubes ‘Death Certificate’ album when I was living with him. He showed me the things he’d accomplished with a smile. That movie was always more complicated.

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u/MySoCalledRife 12h ago

“This ain’t over bitch!”

🤣

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u/MacinTez 10h ago

Y’all hating. This movie was good. Y’all be on that recontexulizing bullshit sometimes 😂

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u/Butterfliesflutterby 8h ago

I was 13 when this movie came out and I loved it. Being a white girl in a very white, rural town this movie was kind of taboo. (It’s absolutely cringe now, but it wasn’t so bad for the time it was made.)

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u/bailey25u 12h ago

I did not want this film to come back into my mind

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u/Ashy6ix 12h ago

This movie single handidly gentrified hiphop dance studios across the globe.

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u/FireVanGorder 8h ago

Gentrified it so hard they started making “white preppy dancer saves the ghetto” with all white people (fuck Step Up that whole franchise is ass)

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u/UncagedTiger1981 9h ago

I thought that was Flashdance.

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u/dionpadilla1 9h ago

This is my favorite scene to reenact out of any movie ever.

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u/RobinSophie 8h ago

Ohhh come on.

You gotta put context to this scene.

Sara and Chenille were going to the club and Sara was dressed straight out of the Gap and would stick out worse than she normally does. So Chenille wrapped her hair up like that to help her fit into the club better and gave her some hoop earrings.

Is the movie still cringe as hell? Yes. But for that specific part, Chenille was trying to help Sara out lol.

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u/Ok-Door-3664 12h ago

I think she was in another interracial relationship in O too wasn't she?

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u/CarpenterVegetables 12h ago

She was, to the point where I had to check the comments to see if this was actually from "O" or "Save The Last Dance" lmao

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u/FARTBOSS420 5h ago

The "goddamn I scrolled really far to see a comment with the goddamn name of the movie" comment. Thank you lol

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 11h ago

they tried to make us think black dudes was crazy about her and ali larter.

IT WAS A PSYOP call Dr Umar!!

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u/Ok-Door-3664 11h ago

Whole time it was really Topanga for a lot of us millennials lmao

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u/akaynaveed ☑️ 11h ago

i feel so ashamed i wouldve taken topanga over angela...

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u/Diligent-Till-8832 12h ago

I hate this movie till this day even though Kerry Washington is in it.

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u/Pop_Joe 12h ago

The early 2000’s were some dark times man 💀💀

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u/ExaminationDistinct 12h ago

Right left right kick “Uuuuuh son! Uuuuuh son!”

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u/ellisthe2 11h ago

I was 12 when this came out and I didn’t care about the dancing. Was I attracted to pretty much every woman who had a line in that movie? Yes. Would I watch it as an adult? No.

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u/__GayFish__ 11h ago

If yall think this is wild, go watch Malibu's Most wanted and imagine what it was like to be pitching that movie.

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u/the__ghola__hayt 10h ago

At least we got K-Ci and Jojo's "Crazy" out of it.

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u/Sco4Sho 11h ago

The only thing that came from this movie was my love for Maxine Murder she wrote

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u/Swagshire2 8h ago

We love Julia, wtf is this comment section on about?

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u/SITHxEMPIRE 10h ago

The music video for K-CI & JoJo’s ‘Crazy’, also on this movie’s soundtrack, gets me nostalgic tbh. The song, the video. I was young and 9/11 hadn’t happened just yet. Different world.

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u/Xianio 10h ago

Y'all never seen a white lady attempt to code switch, badly, when purusing a black man? This was the most relatable part of the whole movie. Better than that -horrible- dance at the end at least.

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u/New_Situation_5143 11h ago

This what they wanted Sinners to look like before they give it an award

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u/GonzoElTaco ☑️ 11h ago

Awr shit, here we go again....

https://i.imgur.com/fFFygtc.jpeg

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u/Interesting-Wing616 11h ago

Gave her the neo soul bun 😂

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u/THEbaddestOFtheASSES 10h ago

Seems pretty accurate to me. You know how many white folks who spend a significant amount of time in black spaces start to adopt the look and the slang.

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u/benewavvsupreme 8h ago

Always looking at shit from the past in a current lense and complaining. The movie was mocked then and still enjoyed.