It's funny to me how many people don't get what's being satirized in this scene, and think it's somehow a good message lol. They literally force a womans clothes off and pretend to rape her, and in the film, this segment only serves to radicalize DeNiro to the point of blowing up his apartment complex, killing his wife. Or how in the scene that follows this, the performers take their "Be Black Baby" "play" to the streets and attack random civilians and get shot lol. It's a very powerful segment but I think a lot of people here are getting the wrong takeaway
THANK you ever so much Reelblack! This was a joyous, “maximum emotionally tormenting,” uproariously funny, trashy, tragic, terrrrrific look back! And SEE?! S33! LOOK at how far, how very, very, very FAR 👀😜 we’ve come!! In all candor, thank you for your Uncompromising & Uncompromised Courage-year round!! Bulletproof Love. ❤️🌷💖🖤❤️🖤
@Elaine Sewell I was only being facetious. Nothing’s changed that I can see except the freedom of speech that generation had in the 70s. Freedom of expression you won’t see upheld in the USA anymore. Hairstyles & shoestyles have changed & the content of what people accept as “news” has changed. But what it means to “Be Black, Baby” hasn’t changed at all.
@Elaine Sewell So sad I have to MAKE myself laugh to keep from crying, as we say. 🤣😂🤣😂 And folks like you & Reelblack keep me uplifted. Sometimes, though, when I look back at the good friends, true friends, true human beings who aren’t here anymore, OMG, I just have to let Sadness take its rightful place. 🤣😂🤣🖤🌷😪⚰️🖤♥️🇺🇸🌷
Don't give a damn what millennials/Gen Z says! Baby boomers were dope af in their youth. Black Gen Xer here & yes I was raised by Beautiful Black Baby Boomer Detroiters. 💝🔥🤗
@Lone Chopsticks Not all of them sold Us out. Thankfully My Father & Uncles weren't sellouts to the bullshit system. But I know what You mean. Even MLK *_REALeyezed_* his mistake for foolishly leading Our People into a burning building just before he was murdered, he was too late by then.
At first I wasn't sure of what I was watching. I almost turned away. Was this for fake or for real? Then seeing D'Urville Martin & Robert de Niro. That was a REAL Play. I've seen many when I was growing up in NYC, but I never heard of this type of play ever. How many people had heart attacks while experiencing this interactive play? THANKS REELBLACK.
"Be Black Baby" was not an actual play; everyone in this scene are actors. But there are actual plays like this where the audience interact with the cast; the genre is called "immersive theater". Probably the most famous example is "Tony 'n Tina's Wedding".
This is a scene from the film "Hi Mom!" By Brian DePalma. It's meant to satarize the upper class white people who act like they sympathize with black people. One of the people in the play is a stand in for the viewer - the white guy with the beard and glasses. He's a white man pretending to understand what they are going through. And then it makes fun of them again after the play showing the surface level appreciation they think they got from the play, the woman who was basically raped even says she's gonna tell all her friends about it. It's about the naivete of white people to black struggles. The film then shows how the acting troupe of black people.try to bring their play to random citizens in an apartment complex where they proceed to get shot for attacking people.
@@smichelle65yep, they don't get this scary, no-one actually gets SA'ed (though there may be some actors who portray victims. There was a time I was doing interactive theater that involved a man, with whom I had rehearsed and knew very well and would never hurt me IRL) threatening me, and this tiny woman jumped on his back and started punching him. Her heart was in the right place and I figured out to yell at him to leave her alone (it was complicated by the fact that he was playing Mr. Hyde and, yeah. He followed me offstage and when we got away from the audience, though a couple of fellow actors also followed to make sure everything was OK, I dropped characher and explained that we had just been acting, thanked her for her concern, but explained that I had been safe the whole time. She said the way I screamed was really convincing.). Earlier in this movie, there are scenes where Gerrit Grahame's character, an acting student named Gerrit (the young blonde man with a beard), is putting up posters for the play, and Robert Deniro's character auditions to play the cop. I don't know for certain that the character of the woman who is SA'ed was just acting, but it makes sense, the troupe wouldn't want to commit an actual felony. The actors and directors in my group discussed that we probably shouldn't play such scenes even in character as they could be triggering for the audience and get an actor legitimately hurt.
This...was one of the most.........bizarre.........shocking........and HILARIOUS...things I have ever seen in my LIFE!!! Those people were so confused and turned around at the end, they didn't know whether they were coming or going. Heck, I was confused for a while just watching it. I would imagine they needed therapy, or some other kind of debriefing, after a "theatre" experience that extreme. But true to black people's long......looooooong history of white supremacist sponsored violence and trauma, these theatre goers didn't get any. They got terrorized, traumatized and kicked out the door and, just like us, had to take it in stride and keep it moving.
I remember watching the whole movie (Hi Mom!) bk in the 80s on the Z Channel in L.A. DeNiro's first movie i think. This scene is such satire on "experimental theater" of the 60s and 70s
Makes me think. Did the director of Dead Presidents get any ideas from this. With the white face. I’m so sad watching this. But I have to feed my mind🥺🥺🥺🥺. My children will know this. Hopefully this channel will be around for them by the time they’re old enough to INNERSTAND. Our history hurts so bad 🥺. Lord i COULDNT imagine facing what my ancestors faced. This is why I praise them and pray to them 🥺 lord help us. We’re almost all the way out. Just guide us. Lord keep us aware. Thank you Reel Black. Thank you 🙏🏽
They seemed a little too excited when they got to the hair. I always thought that was weird. Being Indigenous, i know all too well other people's obsession with hair
The whole movie (Hi. Mom!") is available on RUclips and worth a watch. Within the context of the play, it's not real, there are earlier scenes that show Gerrit Grahame's character (he's the young blonde white man with the beard who gets ahold of a gun) putting up posters for the play, and Robert Deniro's character auditioning to play the cop.
The point of this along with the other "black" segments of the movie was to make fun of both the white middle class suburbanites and radical black power youth wing.
i don't know how anyone can eat it. i grew up in a family that ate chitterlings every year for holidays. i've never eaten them and i never want to try.
5:07 So sarcastically getting to know white people. The pathos play is being abused and having the experience minimized. OK, we get it. 13:12 This is the every day life. But how much of the anger was real?
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This is amazing. The concept and the actors. The way it was performed and recorded.👏🏿
They look how I feel from watching this...TRAUMATIZED!
It's funny to me how many people don't get what's being satirized in this scene, and think it's somehow a good message lol. They literally force a womans clothes off and pretend to rape her, and in the film, this segment only serves to radicalize DeNiro to the point of blowing up his apartment complex, killing his wife. Or how in the scene that follows this, the performers take their "Be Black Baby" "play" to the streets and attack random civilians and get shot lol. It's a very powerful segment but I think a lot of people here are getting the wrong takeaway
I've seen this whole movie it is really good. Thanks for posting this scene.
You absolutely have the best channel on YT! Thank you for posting these gems.
Excellent play experience and Robert De Niro first movie playing the cop .
This video straight up just WOW!!!
THANK you ever so much Reelblack! This was a joyous, “maximum emotionally tormenting,” uproariously funny, trashy, tragic, terrrrrific look back! And SEE?! S33! LOOK at how far, how very, very, very FAR 👀😜 we’ve come!!
In all candor, thank you for your Uncompromising & Uncompromised Courage-year round!! Bulletproof Love. ❤️🌷💖🖤❤️🖤
@Elaine Sewell I was only being facetious. Nothing’s changed that I can see except the freedom of speech that generation had in the 70s. Freedom of expression you won’t see upheld in the USA anymore. Hairstyles & shoestyles have changed & the content of what people accept as “news” has changed. But what it means to “Be Black, Baby” hasn’t changed at all.
@Elaine Sewell So sad I have to MAKE myself laugh to keep from crying, as we say. 🤣😂🤣😂 And folks like you & Reelblack keep me uplifted. Sometimes, though, when I look back at the good friends, true friends, true human beings who aren’t here anymore, OMG, I just have to let Sadness take its rightful place. 🤣😂🤣🖤🌷😪⚰️🖤♥️🇺🇸🌷
@Elaine Sewell Love 💕
"They didn't learn a thing!x especially @@ahnraemenkhera7451!
Willful ignorance is the worst kind.
I love this. When the cop came in they thought they were saved... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"His name is Martin Freeman -- he tried to bomb my house!" 🤣🤣😂😂
This Video seems historical, so much greatness in it
it's a movie dawg
Time really does reveal everything!
Thank You.
I'm still trying to figure out what I am watching. 🤔😐👀🙄🥴🧐🙁🥺😦.
OK....I figured it out now. 😁 😁 I love my black folk.
Don't give a damn what millennials/Gen Z says! Baby boomers were dope af in their youth. Black Gen Xer here & yes I was raised by Beautiful Black Baby Boomer Detroiters. 💝🔥🤗
They, and so was their music. It had a lot of soul.
@Lone Chopsticks Not all of them sold Us out. Thankfully My Father & Uncles weren't sellouts to the bullshit system.
But I know what You mean.
Even MLK *_REALeyezed_* his mistake for foolishly leading Our People into a burning building just before he was murdered, he was too late by then.
Whatever, they started giving up in my lifetime the 80s and the crack and ghetto lifestyle was what the baby boomers left us...
Brian De Palma isn't baby boomer. He's a part of the very cool silent generation.
Why aren’t films like this anymore? 😭
At first I wasn't sure of what I was watching. I almost turned away. Was this for fake or for real? Then seeing D'Urville Martin & Robert de Niro. That was a REAL Play. I've seen many when I was growing up in NYC, but I never heard of this type of play ever.
How many people had heart attacks while experiencing this interactive play?
THANKS REELBLACK.
Ohhhhh I’ve heard of this! I had never actually seen it. This is hard to watch.
"Be Black Baby" was not an actual play; everyone in this scene are actors. But there are actual plays like this where the audience interact with the cast; the genre is called "immersive theater". Probably the most famous example is "Tony 'n Tina's Wedding".
@@smichelle65 - Oh, okay.
This is a scene from the film "Hi Mom!" By Brian DePalma. It's meant to satarize the upper class white people who act like they sympathize with black people. One of the people in the play is a stand in for the viewer - the white guy with the beard and glasses. He's a white man pretending to understand what they are going through. And then it makes fun of them again after the play showing the surface level appreciation they think they got from the play, the woman who was basically raped even says she's gonna tell all her friends about it. It's about the naivete of white people to black struggles. The film then shows how the acting troupe of black people.try to bring their play to random citizens in an apartment complex where they proceed to get shot for attacking people.
@@smichelle65yep, they don't get this scary, no-one actually gets SA'ed (though there may be some actors who portray victims. There was a time I was doing interactive theater that involved a man, with whom I had rehearsed and knew very well and would never hurt me IRL) threatening me, and this tiny woman jumped on his back and started punching him. Her heart was in the right place and I figured out to yell at him to leave her alone (it was complicated by the fact that he was playing Mr. Hyde and, yeah. He followed me offstage and when we got away from the audience, though a couple of fellow actors also followed to make sure everything was OK, I dropped characher and explained that we had just been acting, thanked her for her concern, but explained that I had been safe the whole time. She said the way I screamed was really convincing.).
Earlier in this movie, there are scenes where Gerrit Grahame's character, an acting student named Gerrit (the young blonde man with a beard), is putting up posters for the play, and Robert Deniro's character auditions to play the cop. I don't know for certain that the character of the woman who is SA'ed was just acting, but it makes sense, the troupe wouldn't want to commit an actual felony.
The actors and directors in my group discussed that we probably shouldn't play such scenes even in character as they could be triggering for the audience and get an actor legitimately hurt.
They could use this performance troup at Guantanamo Bay 😂
Wow that was insane haha. Awesome.
I remember this....this was so thrilling.😂😂😂
Well damn! This is good!
This should've been called Scared Black ✊🏾
This is genius 🤔🤔🤔400-500 Yrs in 20 minutes..This really drives it home..Bravo 👊🏾👊🏾
This...was one of the most.........bizarre.........shocking........and HILARIOUS...things I have ever seen in my LIFE!!! Those people were so confused and turned around at the end, they didn't know whether they were coming or going. Heck, I was confused for a while just watching it. I would imagine they needed therapy, or some other kind of debriefing, after a "theatre" experience that extreme. But true to black people's long......looooooong history of white supremacist sponsored violence and trauma, these theatre goers didn't get any. They got terrorized, traumatized and kicked out the door and, just like us, had to take it in stride and keep it moving.
AWESOME!
I remember watching the whole movie (Hi Mom!) bk in the 80s on the Z Channel in L.A. DeNiro's first movie i think. This scene is such satire on "experimental theater" of the 60s and 70s
DeNiros first movie was Greetings which is a prequel to this film, also directed by DePalma
Loool the girl who got her purse taken away. They really are blind to the irony
"No, no, you really must!" 😳😫😫
When i first saw this i was shocked.
Lmaoooo they should bring this back in 2021
They think they eat like we eat,but hated our guts too 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Listen people being black means being loose what a power message.
This is interesting..
😂 wow " I can dig it solid on down !
Makes me think. Did the director of Dead Presidents get any ideas from this. With the white face. I’m so sad watching this. But I have to feed my mind🥺🥺🥺🥺. My children will know this. Hopefully this channel will be around for them by the time they’re old enough to INNERSTAND. Our history hurts so bad 🥺. Lord i COULDNT imagine facing what my ancestors faced. This is why I praise them and pray to them 🥺 lord help us. We’re almost all the way out. Just guide us. Lord keep us aware. Thank you Reel Black. Thank you 🙏🏽
Nice video!
Wow...they sure were lined up to Be Black Baby...
Yes Black ⚫ Power ✊🏾
This shit was hella funny lmaooooooo I wonder where these ppl are now lmaooo
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
OMG INSANE!!! 😲
White man touching black man's hair said that he expected it to be like steel wool. WTF?
They seemed a little too excited when they got to the hair. I always thought that was weird. Being Indigenous, i know all too well other people's obsession with hair
It's scripted, it's from a movie. It's meant to be funny
Power to the people ⚡😂🖤
Oh yeah!
i GAGGED when i first saw "Hi, Mom!" 12 years ago. As soon as i saw the blonde white woman, i knew what this was from.
Hmm, seems the dynamics of being black is different when the tables are turned.....
One of the best things, I have ever seen
ABSOLUTE GENIUS! JAMMED PACKED THE WHOLE BLACK EXPERIENCE. CANT TELL IF IT'S REAL OR NOT SAVIOR W/DA GUN BEING AN AGENT, SMH.
The whole movie (Hi. Mom!") is available on RUclips and worth a watch. Within the context of the play, it's not real, there are earlier scenes that show Gerrit Grahame's character (he's the young blonde white man with the beard who gets ahold of a gun) putting up posters for the play, and Robert Deniro's character auditioning to play the cop.
I would t mind some of those greens and black eyed peas.
One more thing who else saw Robert Dinero at the end lmaooo ok he always been with the shit.
BE BLACK IS WHAT TODAY GENERATION Don't WANT TO HEAR They're BLEACHING their bones okay they say light high YELLOW 💛🟡 is tha blk beautiful dam COLOR
Yo tf is this ? Lol
You’re so pro us now eat us 😅😅😅
🎤
The point of this along with the other "black" segments of the movie was to make fun of both the white middle class suburbanites and radical black power youth wing.
WOW 😳 that was really something. I felt so many strange emotions at once. What the heck?! 😳😫
Ewww lost me at pigfeet
Would’ve been like: “alright thats enough of being black for today, let’s wrap it up..” 🙄
The way he threw that pig feet on his plate 🤣🤣🤣💤
i don't know how anyone can eat it. i grew up in a family that ate chitterlings every year for holidays. i've never eaten them and i never want to try.
LOOooOOOL TAKE HIS PANTS AND HIS SHOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Black face #2021
5:07 So sarcastically getting to know white people. The pathos play is being abused and having the experience minimized. OK, we get it. 13:12 This is the every day life. But how much of the anger was real?
what did i just watch?????????????
Not so funny when its YOU.
What in the world is this
This was in Hi Mom! by Brian De Palma. One of the first movies Robert De Niro ever starred in. They're not responsible for this segment, though.
Yeah they are, Brian DePalma directed this segment as well as the rest of the film
Brian DiPalma predicts 2020s DEI training, 50 years ahead.
Judge them by their character lol, the colour meant nothing.
B 👤
1st
Be American, Baby!!!!! No color!
Unfortunately in a strange land not meant for US where color exists BLACKS can never be AMERICAN
Be naive, baby!!!