Van Lathan Award for Did This Movie Need More Black People?
No
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- The answer is no, with the fuller case saved for a flex later on.
- The flex is a top five list of movies that did not need black people, and this movie has zero black people; the hosts imagine a site called Black Stat Muse to count them.
- Number five is Friday the 13th, everybody in the woods with white people getting killed; number four is The Big Chill, where a black friend would have been a token teaching the group the Motown songs.
- Number three is Grease, called a movie about gang violence that would hit Fox News with black people in it; number two is Good Will Hunting, a Boston movie, with The Departed raised and Anthony Anderson remembered.
- Number one is Jackass: none of the stunts are needed, and representation matters, but not in Jackass.
- Anthony Anderson is credited with saving The Departed from a whiteout, which leads to its ending, rewatched a month earlier, and Jack Nicholson's accent.