Slow Burn
Posted: March 14th, 2007 | Author: miconian | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Buying a ticket to see Slow Burn is buying your right to converse about the inevitable and obvious controversy around caucasian actress Jolene Blalock in blackface. The question that the characters in the trailer are implicitly asking ("Why is she pretending to be black?") reflects the implicit question from the potential audience ("Why are they making a movie about a white girl pretending to be black?") It would be great if there turns out to be a profound statement in there somewhere, but what’s selling the tickets (by design) is the implied controversy.
Blalock is best known for playing a sexy Vulcan on Star Trek: Enterprise, giving her a kind of "other" cred that makes her as right for this role as anyone possibly could be.
