Why Hollywood embraced white savior movies like ‘The Blind Side’
The legal battle between former NFL star Michael Oher and the white Tennessee family who took him in, as portrayed in the fictionalization of their lives in the 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” has renewed conversations about a common film trope: the white savior. When “The Blind Side” hit theaters,…
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