This article was mostly photos but it makes people think about certain movies and how well they would or would not have been received had the main roles been cast with black people.
We have been talking a lot about how specific races are portrayed in films and our perceptions of these films would most certainly change if the characters were made black or even Asian.
This is an iconic position because most people can recognize that this a scene from Breakfast At Tiffany's. However, this photo is different because Audrey Hepburn was replaced by this beautiful woman. Her skin is not white, but black. This woman would not have been a maid or a slave. She would have been the beautiful Holly Golightly with glowing dark skin. This would most definitely challenge social norms. In the Bauman article the darker the skin, the more scandalous the character. Whether Holly is white or black, she is still a little cooky, but the audience would judge her as dysfunctional or not having her life together, because she is black.
This scene is from Thelma and Louise. Now I have not seen this film, but I think that the audiences would have made conclusions based on the race of the characters. The lines wouldn't change and the plot would remain the same, but because they shot a rapist, people might have assumed they would have been caught or convicted sooner at the beginning of the film.
This is from American Beauty. It is about a suburban father in a mid-life crisis who decided to turn his life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend. If they all had been black, people would think that is typical for that family. They would be black and it would be shocking for the audience to see that they live in a suburban neighborhood.
I have not seen the other two movies on this website, but the idea is the same. We would jump to conclusions about social status and the morals of the characters if their races changed.
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