Posts tagged My Year of Flops
My World of Flops Racially Problematic Case File #168 The Travolta/Cage Project #41 White Man's Burden (1995)
My World of Flops Racially Problematic Case File #168 The Travolta/Cage Project #41 White Man's Burden (1995)

John Travolta slathers on allegorical blackface to play a poor white man at the end of his rope in the muddled racial allegory White Man’s Burden, which imagines an alternate universe where the racial dynamic of our country has been reversed, with African-Americans in power and poor white folks the primary victim of racism.

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The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJohn Travolta, Harry Belafonte, race, Lawrence Bender, Kelly Lynch, My Year of Flops
John Travolta's Southern-Fried Mid-Life Crisis Case File #142/My Year of Flops II #39 The Poison Rose
John Travolta's Southern-Fried Mid-Life Crisis Case File #142/My Year of Flops II #39 The Poison Rose

John Travolta month continues with an exploration of one of the many terrible films he’s released this year, The Poison Rose, a Southern-fried Chinatown for Dummies that casts Travolta’s cliched PI as a young whippersnapper with a thick mane of chestnut hair who gets mixed up in a mystery involving sinister powerbroker Morgan Freeman and a Peter Lorre-like creepy doctor played by an unrecognizable Brendan Fraser

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My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinJohn Travolta, Brendan Fraser, Morgan Freeman, My Year of Flops, My World of Flops