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White savior narrative in film
At white savior narrative in film, Blood Diamond is an appropriate film to list. In addition to the reference currently used, the book mentioned in "Further reading", The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption, also covers Blood Diamond. To quote from that book, "This exchange sets the stage for the two central white characters of the film. Archer and Bowen come across as interlopers in a foreign land that is unequivocally damaged and broken. One, Archer, wants to profiteer from it, and the other, Bowen, naively wants to save it. Despite exposing their respective utter greed and misplaced idealism, they unite against the dysfunction of Africans. Whether democratically elected or put in power by revolutionary change, Africans are doomed to run Sierra Leone into the ground. The film contextualizes the story by situating it in the tragedy of the human rights violation of blood diamond mining, giving it not only the glitter of precious stones but also the sensation and sentiment of Hollywood. It is hard not to root for the white savior when child soldiers, slavery, and genocide—all furthering the material wealth of multinational corporations and individual soldiers of fortune—undergird the film's plot." Thanks, Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 14:26, 26 October 2014 (UTC)