White People Won't Save You
A podcast that deconstructs the white savior trope in film, and recenters the Black and PoC chaaracters and actors in them.
Episodes
We saw it. We hated it. We discuss By Any Means, the new Mark Wahlberg movie that tries and drastically fails to turn a true civil rights story into a buddy cop revenge thriller. A movie so bad we had to invite on our first white guest! We break it all the way down. ALSO! If you'd like to watch us, the video is up now on your Youtube channel (Youtube.com/@white_pod).
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Back again with another new episode and a movie that really pushed the limits of our sanity. Streetballers is a perfect example of why we do this podcast. A movie that combines all of the wildest white savior tropes with the hubris of a white filmmaker who thinks he knows Black culture. Joining us for this insanity is our friend D'Marcus from the Black Geek Energy podcast.
Together we discuss if it's possible to bur...
Apologies! We've had a few technical issues but we've got an all timer for you coming from the depths of white savior hell. Shadrach is a painful watch. Not simply because of the subject matter (a 99 year old slave WALKS from Alabama to Virginia to die on the plantation he was born on) but for the fact that they treat this full grown Black man like a prop.
We dig into the history of the short story the film is based on, ...
Does white savior nonsense feel good in a place like this? We welcome Nicole Kidman to the pod for the first time as we discuss 2005's The Interpreter. Joined by the super talented Brandon V. Fletcher to help us discuss what makes a good political thriller, where Nicole Kidman got that African flute from, and more!
Check out more of Brandon's pop culture thoughts at The Critic's Collective and also check out his website ...
We're back! Again! Sorry for another delay, we've both been busy (in good ways) but the good news is we have a bunch of episodes ready to go! Reaching back a bit into the vault, we bring you Conspiracy, a 2008 film staring Val Kilmer and some very...interesting politics.
We discuss maybe the most uncomfortable sex scene we've had to watch, knives vs guns, and Jack Harlow's many hats.
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Another one from the vaults! We take you back to simpler times, when Sinners was about to win a couple Oscars (but not all the ones it should have) as we discuss a movie we like to call White Sinners aka 1986's Crossroads. Starring Ralph Macchio, directed by the man who also did 48 Hours and The Warriors, we get a movie about a white boy who becomes the greatest blues player of all time.
We talk...
We've got a gem from the archives today! The Last Boy Scout (1991) has one of the craziest opening sequences we've ever seen. A banger song, PCP, and Billy Blanks with the blicky, all in a matter of 5 minutes. The rest of the movie is downhill from here as we discuss sleepy Bruce Willis, the total misuse of Halle Berry, and the logistics of shooting a football from a horse. This weeks caucacity is a bit dated but also fuc...
It's been a while, but we're back! Sorry for the break, life got busy but we're back and we've got some bangers ready for you! Starting off with Woody Allen's second feature film, 1971's Bananas. What a mess this movie is! More about Woody Allen having sex than the plot which seemingly is about him bumbling into being the dictator of a Latin American country.
Part of our break was retooling some things to be be...
Still reveling in the Sinners Oscar buzz, we were so excited to speak with someone very familiar with Black horror, the one and only Ezra Claytan Daniels. Author of several amazing graphic novels like Upgrade Soul and his latest, Mama Came Callin', as well as writing for shows like Doom Patrol and Severance, he joined us to talk about a Black horror cult hit, The People Under the Stairs. ...
Finally, we're current with our Oscar talk! We give our thoughts on not just the Sinners V OBAO but the night as a whole and wider conversation about the Academy. What were your thoughts on the night? Let us know at @whitepeoplewontsaveyoupod on IG and TikTok. Also, check us out on Youtube where we have additional content coming out!
If you made it through part one, part two is even crazier. We get into all of the crazy choices this movie made, some VERY interesting quotes from the writer and director, some weird behind the scenes footage, and more! The only thing that got us through is the knowledge that Sinners has 16 Oscar nominations.
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We're back with one of the most requested and one of the worst films we've ever seen. Neo Ned is a 2005 movie staring Jeremy Renner and Gabrielle Union where *checks notes* a neo nazi and a Black women fall in love in a mental hospital. You're not ready for how bad and offensive this movie is. We had to split it into two parts because it broke our brains.
We'll be back with part two on Thursday! Hope everyone is sta...
We're back! Sorry for the delay, as we all know, a lot going on to start the year. But thankfully we were able to stack a few episodes and we'll be dropping them weekly going forward, starting with the amazing Steven Underwood!
His new book, Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance, explores the ways in which Black culture shaped the digital age as well as Black digital creators fight fo...
A long but worthwhile episode this week as we dive into the recent Running Man adaption from Edgar Wright. It got us thinking about other films this year that have aspired to thoughts about political revolution and fallen short. We cover parts of Wicked: For Good, One Battle After Another, and Caught Stealing and discuss what it means when these movies use revolutionary language and imagery, the role o...
This film...wow. The spiritual successor to The Thing With Two Heads, we discuss 1990's Heart Condition, easily the worst film Denzel has ever been in.
In what feels like an attempt to cash in on the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, this poorly imagined race comedy inserts Denzel into the Roger Rabbit role and instantly jumps into our worst things we've watched list. An insane film where Bob Hoskins throws out sl...
Happy (very belated) Halloween. It's never too late or early for spooky season (what is time in 2025 anyways?) and we're so glad to be joined by one of our favorite guests Shawn Pryor to discuss the eerily bad The Thing With Two Heads. This 1972 monstrosity is at once filled with some of the wildest scenes we've seen and also features what feels like an hour long car chase.
We've reached the summit of mount caucacity! It's time to find out, what is the worst white savior film of all time. On one side we have Jordan, arguing for the favorite of middle aged white dads with wrap around sunglasses everywhere, Dances With Wolves. On the other side we have Cameron going up against one of the worst crimes committed to film, Green Book.
Back again with our top 20 countdown, this time with 5 through 3. We discuss some of the most notorious offenders in Lawrence of Arabia, The Help, and Driving Mrs. Daisy. So much to talk about and somehow we get sidetracked talking about the California Raisins.
We wrap up our top 20 tomorrow with our final two contenders, Green Book and Dances With Wolves. Who will be crowned worst of the worst, ...
Sorry for the delay, life has been lifing, but we're back with our next installment of our Top 20 white savior countdown! We've got 10 - 6 for you, including a lot of the most notorious white savior films we've covered. We'll be wrapping up the countdown this week, as well as putting out a few more original episodes! What will be in our top 5? Tune in tomorrow to find out!
We're back with a classic! One of the originals, Lawrence of Arabia is considered by many to be the greatest film ever made. It also features Obi-Wan in brown face...
We talk about the historical fact and fictions, the depiction of Arab peoples in the film and much more!
Our top 20 countdown concludes this week! We also have some spooky Halloween episodes on the way, including a 30th anniversary look at Tales F...
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