Comments on: Dear Hollywood, Gypsy Curses? NOT Okay.

By: Mooks

Mooks — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:59:49 +0000

Just saw the film last night and thought it was a lot of fun. As a gay man I was not upset with ‘Silence of the Lambs’ which, could be argued, had the same effect.

Sadly Gypsies are treated horribly in Romania. At least the old woman won in the end.

By: Kali Ruv

Kali Ruv — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:04:40 +0000

The Rrom have actually been a slave race before they were in India. Once they left the middle east, they were enslaved by the Persians who then sent them to India.

By: Myesha

Myesha — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:08:08 +0000

doesnt matter how light you are, there are red headed afghanis, and blonde arabs. if your Rom, you aint white, and if your not white you are most definitely a person of color. I totally dig the rest of what your saying though.

By: Myesha

Myesha — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:01:12 +0000

youre right about a LARGE porion of that but we didnt become nomadic because of slavery and there was only a portion of our populattion was enslaved.

Weve been nomadic since we left india, and most of gypsy slavery occured in Romania while a portion of spanish gypsies were sent to the americas with the africans sometime later.

By: Myesha

Myesha — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:54:24 +0000

Hon, Romani’s are definitely NOT romanians. romanians hate us. and you are right to a point, the fact remains that Romani [gypsy] people are the most seen and simultaneously unrecognized minority group in europe and everyone in America thinks we dont exist. Nobody knows that millions of gypsies died in the holocaust, people think its just jews and homosexuals. Being gypsy in europe is a kin to being black in the 60’s… not fun. There are places we cant go, jobs we cant get hired for etc. etc. and a lot of times this is federal law. So I understand that many people cry racism, but when that racism is EXTREMELY active and isnt widely called attention to, its no longer history its outright insult. Just the fact that you didnt know that Romani’s are not Romanians points out the fact that people in the world are painfully uneducated about our situation. People continue to think that being gypsy is a lifestyle like being a hippy, but we’re an ethnic group, and we dont put weird curses on people because they dont extend our loans.

if they made a movie about black people melting people with their eyeballs, and everybody really believed that, then that would be a similar situation. Doesnt that sound a bit ridiculous?

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:37:55 +0000

How do people feel about the gypsies in The Wolf Man? Played magical, yes, but the old gypsy woman is the only character who tries to help Lon Chaney Jr. out of his predicament.

By: Michelle Karman

Michelle Karman — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:20:31 +0000

I have not seen Drag Me To Hell, nor do I intend to. I am not a fan of Sam Raimi at
all.

Angry Black Woman, I agree with you about people of color being stereotyped. It
is one reason I have
my own website now.

Gypsies were also stereotyped in Thinner, based upon the Stephen King novel written under his old pen name, Richard Bachman. Ol’ Stephen tends to do a great deal of stereotyping himself.

Gypsy curses? Bah! If Gypsies could curse, they’d probably rid the world of white people
and racism against their people. I know I would.

By: myesha

myesha — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:13:21 +0000

OPRE ROMA!

By: Shalama

Shalama — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:24:12 +0000

Very interesting post.

I am of Persian Gypsy descent. I grew up for a large majority of my life, surrounded by Gypsy culture. (Though baring in mind, Gypsies from Iran are very much different than Romani Gypsies.) – If not different, perhaps I could say even more mystique in nomadic sense, and sense of lifestyle, ie: The hustling.

My mother came from a heavy Gypsy background, she knew all the tricks of the trade, the mother tongue and the lingo.

Coming from a real gypsy background, what does this movie make me think?

- Glamorized.

The curse of the Gypsy, IS in fact true… But nothing like in the movie. No…
They WILL make your life a living hell, but with hustling, robbing, tricks and quick knitted thieving.
EG: NEVER mess with a Gypsy.

What do I think? The movie is a bit of a shambles. I don’t like it. But unfortunately, that Gypsy hag does remind me a bit of my mother. From what I’ve seen her do in the past

By: Smiley Emotions

Smiley Emotions — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:00:22 +0000

The movies I want to see in 2009 has to be Public Enemies, the story of John Dillinger and Johnny Depp always seems to choose great scripts and plays them well.