Neil Diamond: Black Man

[PickyFilmsLtd]

great film and amazing songs

[whyteay]

His makeup was so convincing, as well. He should have easily got away with it as that guy in the movie 'soul man'.

[whyteay]

the same thing happened to me in reverse, I had to perform with a band at a bar mitzvah, I was whitened up alright, but then I paid for my bar bill in full and didn't start complaining about eveything - man I was busted, teffillin and mezuzahs and phylacteries flying about all over the place.

[whyteay]

Lol, That guy's white, that means this music which I was really getting into isn't any good any more!

[charemaine]

so wrong...as is the scene where his g'friend presents him with a ham which

somehow leads to them making love

[GENIUS99999992345678]

Dude just wants to sind and it turns into a bongo party.

[GENIUS99999992345678]

And he can PASS!

[eddied111]

OMG amazing post!! Soooo F'ing funny... The guy tries to stop him clapping when he sees his white hands... OMG loooooool

[BootyFister]

NIGGA JUST WENT FULL RETARD.

[Airsoftcleaner]

The Funniest part of the whole movie LOL

[kitty9tales]

the version on the album was better

[MondoBeno]

Why are they going crazy for this guy? I can't believe that Black music lovers would enjoy such a lame song?

Regardless, I've never known Black listeners to love Neil Diamond that much.

[IEatManure]

That aint no brotha! That's a white boy!

Crash! Bang! Whallop! Cop car wailing....

.................eet's not tuff enuff beink a CHEW?

[mercurymay]

ah, back in the day when you didn't have to check with every civil rights lawyer in the world to make a movie. good times.

[wullieready]

crap utter crap

[1MsDharma]

HE ROCKS

[princesstorz]

Pure Excellence.. ( great track) and movie... Anyone who hasn't seen it, must!!!

[allsmurfedup]

i love this movie, grat sound track

[michaeltgrace]

I'm white and I think this is the least funky thing I've seen since "The Jazz Singer"

Oh. Wait...

[CHRISPOKER5467]

The reason for this scene is a homage to the original Jazz Singer, where star Al Jolsen performed in black face (similar plot).

[stjoanou]

my favorite part ...

> nigger gets punched in the face.

[whitewitchoz]

In 1980 my mom took me to see this movie and she bought the soundtrack too. I used to go around singing this song. The only thing I thought was weird was finding out that there were places that did not allow white people.

[darrellkaiser1985]

My ma gasped when she saw this at the cinema. I think she thought he was going to be in blackface for all of his performances. Thankfully, he wasn't!

[WonderGirl732]

REALLY?in the story it's actually reverse discrimination...he's adopting an African-American face to fit in in with the times..he's actually posing as a black man in a black club

[redbandmagic]

This was the only part of the movie that I had a problem with. I liked everything else.

[rooters11]

@redbandmagic

Why the hell do you have a problem with it?

[redbandmagic]

It felt like it didn't fit in with the rest of the movie. It's a very ridiculous scene. It feels like it belongs in a parody film not in something like this.

[bwgary]

Most of Neil Diamond's best music was in this movie. This was probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. Great song too.

[au33987]

Things we live to regret, ah Neil.

[asherhawke]

He looks like Greg Brady under bad lighting

[MOLLYryaiMOON]

Neil Diamond?

[morgan8757]

the jackson four

[GhettoBlaster100]

w8 what movie is this?

[MissJemma1x]

the jazz singer

you should watch it its amazing :D

[loping2]

Most ridiculous movie scene ever?

[lurch321]

@loping2 Yes...............from the most ridiculous movie ever!

[floydgenesisnut]

This was hilarious. The movie didn't hurt Neil's career. The movie may have not fared that well at the box office however the soundtrack album became the biggest selling album of Neil Diamond's career with sales to date over 5 million copies in the US alone. The Jazz Singer album was originally released on Capitol Records and then eventually switched over to Columbia Records.

[Clay3613]

@floydgenesisnut The movie sucks though.

[JJKId93]

earnie hudson?

[Urvy1A]

Yup, the same guy who voiced Cyborg on The Super Powers Team and played Winston in Ghostbusters.

[11nn22nn33nn]

Easily one of the worst bits of film making ever. So bad it's good. Having one of the greatest actors ever, Lawrence Olivier, in it just makes it that much more bizarre. There's a scene where he abandons a vintage mustang on the road-that's pretty offensive too.

[yuri227]

fuckin ass.

[THEBIGCHIEF420]

yura heeb

[yuri227]

Die and choke on your tongue.

[slakjaw]

FYI, his character was a songwriter for the band, but the singer got sick and he "subbed" for him - thus the blackface. Still, yeah, bad career move, Neil.

[yuri227]

Yeah, this really affected his career...

I bet it was this movie that ended his music career...

[slakjaw]

How many movies did he do after this?

[memolinex]

Absolutly NOT

This soundtrack was very succesfull starting the 80's. All these songs were hits in USA and other parts of the world.

Regards from Mexico

[EmperorNorton2008]

So many parts of me died right now.

[kcmahaney]

uhh is thay greg brady?

[SnapFingersSnapNeck]

uhhh, folks? That's not "blackface." That's makeup. There's a difference.

With real blackface, it's not even intended to look real, but a mockery of the african skin tones. It's understood, when someone is wearing blackface, that it's meant to be making fun of someone (see Ted Danson's performance at then-girlfriend Whoopi's Friar's Club roast).

The makeup in this scene was no more racist than the wigs he and his friends wore on stage while singing this song.

[MISTAHgoodnight]

What are white people not allowed in or something? What is this Club Farrakhan?

[eddied111]

Hilarious, He is wearing a Magin David (star of David) and when bubba stares at him when he's clapping, love it!

[catymacca]

Amazing film, thanks for up loading this.

[Wolfenfang]

WTF??????? How bizarre and weird, puzzzling and strange.

[sansankudo]

Afro/Jewfro.

[NyeTunes]

Okay, now I wanna see him sing "You Gotta Love Your Negro Man." :-P

[jordan04n]

...almost forgot about this one...so classic....real sense of humor....thanks for the posy ....*****+

[bambizzoozled]

Classic blackface scene. This comes from the movie "The Jazz Singer," a 1980 remake of the groundbreaking 1927 classic starring Al Jolson. I think deciding to include blackface in the remake was a gimme, since Jerry Lewis had used it in his 1959 televised remake of the same movie. But, rather than use minstrel style blackface like Lewis, Diamond used convincing blackface like we see being used today in Tropic Thunder.