Could a show like "Diff'rent Strokes" work today?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Diff'rent Strokes
TMC-4 — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 02:05 PM)
My biggest concern if you want to call it that is that it would immediately and rather cynically be written off as just another "white savior narrative" a la the movie
The Blind Side
(which is also about a ne'er do well white family "rescuing" a poor, virtually orphaned black kid).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior_narrative_in_film
https://www.google.com/#q=white+savior+the+blind+side -
crypticanomaly73 — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 04:44 AM)
You would have to made it edgy in some way. For the time DS was made it was a different topic.
So today you would need to mix it up
1/ Wealthy Muslim man/woman adopts 2 non Muslim kids, maybe even Jewish ones.
2/ Wealthy Black man/woman adopts 2 poor white kids.
The problem of course is the kids wouldn't be able to make any racial comparisons because now they wouldn't be black.
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mistersparkle — 9 years ago(January 14, 2017 05:20 PM)
Nah, you keep Mr. D a white guy, but make him particularly clueless so he can be whitesplained to. The kids you definitely make muslim, so they have to teach Mr. D all about prayer rugs and haram and stuff he doesn't know (he's so ignorant) and they have to put Kimberly and the maids in burkas.
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