Where's my flying car?

[labellementeuse]

Here's what I think about the inauguration: You know all those movies, usually vaguely crappy sci-fi/natural disaster movies, set somewhere in the indeterminate future? Like Independence Day and Deep Impact and stuff. Well, sixth_light and I realised some time ago (because we watched a lot of aforementioned vaguely crappy SF movies) that the President was always black. It's like it was a rule: In The Indeterminate Future, the President will be African-American. Putting This In Our Movie Makes Us Seem Liberal, Right?

So anyway. Welcome to the future, y'all.

Comments

[reticent-lass.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only one who noticed this black president = future correlation. (On a related note, this is why Morgan Freeman is occasionally referred to as President God.)

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

I think James Earl Jones was the first future black president, if I recall correctly, in a movie made back in the '70s.

Some day, my flying car will come....

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

:D Morgan Freeman just is kind of... paternal. In the godly kind of way, not the cuddly-daddy kind of way.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Morgan Freeman is President God because he has played both the President of the US and God. I think Cleolinda put them together first tbh.