Word: voodoos
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Crimson: Was there any resentment from people who were involved or who are still involved in voodoo while you were filming in Haiti...
Cohen: We had active voodoo priest advisors all through the making of the picture both in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. And I would say that if they did not like what we were doing, we would not have been able to complete the movie...
Davis: I think that one of the wonderful things about this picture is that recently I have objected to certain pictures that have dealt with the issue of voodoo, [notably] Angel Heart, which I felt was racist, both subliminally and explicitly. This was a film where every black person was shown to be barefoot, illiterate, with the exception of Lisa Bonet, who was shown to be a Valley Girl. But on the most dangerous level, a really nefarious suggestion was made that voodoo was somehow satanic...
Crimson: It's obvious that you feel very strongly about the misrepresentation of voodoo in the media...
Davis: The most important thing is that voodoo is not an aberrant cult. It's only the American culture that has portrayed it in this way. When the U.S. Marine Corps occupied Haiti, everyone above the rank of sergeant got a book contract, and those books got names like Cannibal Cousins, Voodoo Fire in Haiti, Puritan In Voodoo Land. And they were full of zombies crawling out of the grave attacking people, and voodoo dolls and pins that don't even exist. This led to Hollywood movies like I Walked with A Zombie and Zombies on Broadway. I think what...