My husband and I often say this watching old movies - we miss the days when a character’s race wasn’t a defining part of the character, it was just who he was. He was a cop who happened to be black, rather than a Black man who happened to be a policeman.
Same deal with other Morgan Freeman films like Seven or Shawshank - the race of the protagonists was literally irrelevant. Nowadays it’s a marketing function of the film.
My husband and I often say this watching old movies - we miss the days when a character’s race wasn’t a defining part of the character, it was just who he was. He was a cop who happened to be black, rather than a Black man who happened to be a policeman.
Same deal with other Morgan Freeman films like Seven or Shawshank - the race of the protagonists was literally irrelevant. Nowadays it’s a marketing function of the film.