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| − | Leroy (2007) is a German comedy movies directed and written by Armin Völckers. | + | Leroy (2007) is a German comedy movies directed and written by Armin Völckers. |It tells a story of a young boy who is having identity crisis because of his black skin. |
[[File:Leroy 2007.jpg|thumb|Leroy 2007]] | [[File:Leroy 2007.jpg|thumb|Leroy 2007]] | ||
| − | == Plot == | + | ==Plot== |
| − | Leroy (16) is an Afro-German boy who | + | Leroy (16) is the main character of the movie. He is an Afro-German boy who was burin into a high cultured, well-mannered family, but he happens to have a black skin. Therefore, he belongs to the minority. He makes friend with a Neo-Nazi guy, who happens to be his girlfriend's brother. |
| − | + | In one scene, Leroy and his companion, "Dimmi" examine the sorer spots of the German condition human: white outsiders and black Germans, the difficult Germans to say the word "Jew", minorities individuals on tanning beds and Hitler's arrangement to change over the shades of all German traffic signals to dark, red and gold. At the point when Leroy and Dimmi nearly get thrashed by a threatening skinheads, Eva makes all the difference and afterward it day breaks on Leroy how he can stop racism from its core.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898323/?ref_=kw_li_tt</ref> | |
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| − | There is a dialogue | + | ==Controversy== |
| + | A different situation in real life,as dark male lived in a white-ruled society meets a Racist Nazi family while there was a notice during the World Cup in Germany saying that some of Eastern pieces of the nation weren't ok for dark people. | ||
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| + | There is also a dialogue in the movie where a family is disgusted by Leroy's skin color: | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
'''Evas Vater, Herr Braune''': Why is *he* still here? | '''Evas Vater, Herr Braune''': Why is *he* still here? | ||
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'''Evas Mutter, Frau Braune''': Gottfried, don't be so rude. He saved Rommel's life. | '''Evas Mutter, Frau Braune''': Gottfried, don't be so rude. He saved Rommel's life. | ||
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'''Eva Braune''': And you have to accustom to Leroy, he's my new boyfriend. | '''Eva Braune''': And you have to accustom to Leroy, he's my new boyfriend. | ||
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'''Siegfried Braune''': You've got to be joking! | '''Siegfried Braune''': You've got to be joking! | ||
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'''Leroy''': Black humor. | '''Leroy''': Black humor. | ||
| + | (Völckers, 2007)</blockquote> | ||
| + | ==Reference== | ||
| + | # http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2010/01/film-leroy-germany-2007.html | ||
| + | <references /> | ||
| − | + | [[Category:Black-Targeted Racism in Comedy Movies]] | |
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| − | [[Category:Black Racism in Comedy Movies]] | ||
Latest revision as of 06:10, 15 March 2021
Leroy (2007) is a German comedy movies directed and written by Armin Völckers. |It tells a story of a young boy who is having identity crisis because of his black skin.
Plot
Leroy (16) is the main character of the movie. He is an Afro-German boy who was burin into a high cultured, well-mannered family, but he happens to have a black skin. Therefore, he belongs to the minority. He makes friend with a Neo-Nazi guy, who happens to be his girlfriend's brother.
In one scene, Leroy and his companion, "Dimmi" examine the sorer spots of the German condition human: white outsiders and black Germans, the difficult Germans to say the word "Jew", minorities individuals on tanning beds and Hitler's arrangement to change over the shades of all German traffic signals to dark, red and gold. At the point when Leroy and Dimmi nearly get thrashed by a threatening skinheads, Eva makes all the difference and afterward it day breaks on Leroy how he can stop racism from its core.[1]
Controversy
A different situation in real life,as dark male lived in a white-ruled society meets a Racist Nazi family while there was a notice during the World Cup in Germany saying that some of Eastern pieces of the nation weren't ok for dark people.
There is also a dialogue in the movie where a family is disgusted by Leroy's skin color:
Evas Vater, Herr Braune: Why is *he* still here?
Evas Mutter, Frau Braune: Gottfried, don't be so rude. He saved Rommel's life.
Eva Braune: And you have to accustom to Leroy, he's my new boyfriend.
Siegfried Braune: You've got to be joking!
Leroy: Black humor.
(Völckers, 2007)
