#Paragon game tropes movie

The grief of seeing the sassy, streetwise black friend trope played out again, and realizing that an opportunity to do better with the reboot had been missed.

#Paragon game tropes movie

Scoot a little further to the first trailer of the movie вЂ¦ and my heart breaking at the stereotype that is Patty.

Cue my excitement as I was sent back to that moment in the theatre as a teen, but with women on screen kicking spectral ass and taking names. I grew up, but the media I watched didnвЂ™t.ДЇast-forward to the announcement of a reboot of Ghostbusters, but with an all-female cast. Black girls and women weren't there unless they happened to be the mom, girlfriend, sister, cousin or random neighbor of the token black dude. I never got to see myself as the scientist, the geek or the nerd, except by proxy of a token black dude that tagged along with the other guys in movies. The original Ghostbusters wasnвЂ™t an anomaly in this sense. This is why IвЂ™m not cheering the reboot with the same unbridled glee as other folks. WeвЂ™ve gotten the same old tropes 30 years later, and itвЂ™s still a problem. ThatвЂ™s what bothered me when I saw the first film the most: seeing a black person on screen, but not seeing them be fully part of the story. He wasnвЂ™t one of the smart guys who saved folks. It was fantastic for a little nerdling like me to see science and cool stuff and people who won through smarts rather than brute force.Д®rnie HudsonвЂ™s Winston Zeddemore wasnвЂ™t a scientist. I was a teenager when it was released, and I saw it in the theater. I remember the original Ghostbusters movie.