Word: subhumanity
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...past, it could be argued, ignorance led us astray. Having been trained to see women and minorities as subhuman, how could these great white males conceive of any contribution from other quarters...
...attention in the past decade. In India, according to government reports, 37% of the people cannot buy enough food to sustain themselves. Warned Shri B.B. Vohra, vice chairman of the Himachal Pradesh state land-use board in northern India: "We may be well on the way to producing a subhuman kind of race where people do not have enough energy to deal with their problems...
...film's nice conceit that Roger, Baby Herman and all the other characters from '40s Hollywood animation are creatures of a subhuman species known as Toons. They breathe, they emote, and sometimes they get cuckolded by their sultry wives. Jessica Rabbit, Roger's spouse, is one such bimbette. "I'm not bad," Jessica pouts, "I'm just drawn that way." But all Toontown knows she's been spending time with Marvin Acme, who owns the local gagworks. So when Marvin gets bumped off, Roger is the prime suspect. His only hope is Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a human detective...
That profile is familiar too. For Alex is the latest in a long Hollywood line of women whose sexuality makes them both super- and subhuman. Vampires. Or, in Hollywood's word, vamps. Since 1915, when Theda Bara starred in A Fool There Was (based on Rudyard Kipling's poem The Vampire), the American movie screen has been pocked with predatory femmes fatales. What made them evil? Usually, that they liked sex as much as men did, if they were decadent Europeans played by the likes of Garbo and Dietrich. Or, if they were homegrown, that sexual frustration twisted them into...
...only conceivable purpose behind all this ridiculous symbolism is to convince the audience that these terrorists are lower on the evolutionary chart than were the Nazis. They are in fact so subhuman that we aren't supposed to care when we see the Americans slaughter hundreds of Muslims later on in the film. But this doesn't explain why screenwriters James Bruner and Golan choose to inform us that one of the terrorists had a young daughter who was killed by the Israelis. Are they Nazis or victims or both? To be honest, I haven't lost too much sleep...