UEL 2018: O autor apresenta o surgimento de um padrão nos filmes mais recentes de ficção científica e fantasia

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Looking back over recent sci-fi/fantasy movies, there’s a curious pattern starting to emerge. Think back to Guardians of the Galaxy. There, the heroine of the piece was a green-skinned female alien named Gamora, who also had a romantic relationship with the white male hero. Gamora was played by Zoe Saldana, an actor of Caribbean and African descent. Then there was Avatar, where the heroine was a blue-skinned female alien, again played by Zoe Saldana. She also had a romantic relationship with the white male hero.

Now think back to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Remember Lupita Nyong’o was in it? Probably not, as you only heard her voice. She was Maz Kanata, a wizened, shrivelled little alien creature. Nyong’o, who is of Kenyan ancestry, has been one of the breakout stars of the decade. Since she won her Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, she has been showered with modelling contracts, red-carpet invites and accolades (she was People magazine’s “most beautiful” woman of 2014, for example). Star Wars took the most beautiful woman in the world and basically made her the Yoda of the piece. Nyong’o is currently working on a new sci-fi movie called Intelligent Life. The plot summary reads: “An employee at a department of the United Nations that monitors outer space inadvertently makes contact with a beautiful woman, who may be an alien.” Nyong’o is the alien, of course. It’s a safe bet the UN employee will be a white guy.

You could look at this situation in a number of ways. The first is that women of colour are being cast as aliens by an unthinking industry that still equates “not white” with “exotic”. That theory doesn’t make sense with a movie such as Avatar, where the other blue-skinned aliens were also played by not-white actors). Or could it be that, in the 21st-century moviescape, there’s still some problem with black women of reproductive age? Especially if they’re getting together with white men? Is that what’s this is really about?

(Adaptado de: ROSE, S. When it comes to interracial romances the movies need to catch up. The Guardian (online). Publicado em: 12 maio 2016, modificado em: 23 jun. 2017. Disponível em: <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/12/when-it-comes-tointerracial-romances-the-movies-need-to-catch-up>. Acesso em: 24 jun. 2017.)

O autor apresenta o surgimento de um padrão nos filmes mais recentes de ficção científica e fantasia. Identifique esse padrão e o questionamento levantado pelo autor no texto, escrevendo sua conclusão em português.

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- UEL 2018: O texto faz parte de uma petição online, ferramenta digital que tem sido usada para pressionar pessoas, organizações ou empresas por mudanças.

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Identificar, distinguir e interpretar recursos e segmentos do texto que sustentam a argumentação; identificar evidências; chegar a conclusões relacionando argumentos à ideia principal.

Resposta esperada:

No padrão que está emergindo nos filmes de ficção científica e fantasia, as mulheres negras jovens, com frequência, aparecem caracterizadas como alienígenas ocultadas por computação gráfica ou por pintura corporal, ou seja, “disfarçadas”, normalmente tendo um romance com um protagonista/herói branco (...the heroine of the piece was a green-skinned female alien ...who also had a romantic relationship with the white male hero; where the heroine was a blue-skinned female alien... She also had a romantic relationship with the white male hero; She was Maz Kanata, a wizened, shrivelled little alien creature.).

O autor questiona se seria esse o único meio da indústria cinematográfica imaginar um romance entre mulheres negras e homens brancos: somente se a mulher negra estiver “escondida”, considerando, ainda, a persistência da dificuldade em lidar com mulheres negras e jovens no cinema. (Or could it be that, in the 21st-century moviescape, there’s still some problem with black women of reproductive age? Especially if they’re getting together with white men? Is that what’s this is really about?)

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