Frankly, all the hobbits are described as being caucasian, that's the way the stories were, staying true to the source material is racist? I think not, frankly it seems to me that she went in there to the casting call specifically with the intention to cause waves and start a contraversy, the casting call said exactally what they were looking for and she went there anyway. I didn't see anyone complaining that the Easterlings (That being the men mounting the great stonking big elephants) are all of middle eastern apperance? No, because that was, in fact, in the books, though i doubt anyone would take the time to check before creating a racial powder keg.
Seriously people, can't we live in an age where we don't have to put disclaimers on everything that is made with other races in it to state that "We're a multicultural team and as a multicultural team we hope that you understand that we're a multicultural team and we get our multiculturalism from our multicultural team and can you tell how much multiculturalism is in this multicultural production but how many multicultural times we use the word multicultural as a multicultural flame shield so your multicultural asses can't complain that we're killing multiculturally so that you can't accuse us of not being multicultural because we are so are multicultural!"
C'mon, though i did laugh to myself about the disclaimer at the start of Assassins Creed 1&2. Seriously, i was pissed that they weren't going to have someone of middle eastern apperance playing the Prince of Persia, partly because i can't stand Jake whats-his-name but mostly because it wasn't true to the original text. I was equally upset when i heard that the had an all caucasian line up for Avatar: The Last Air Bender. (Creatively called 'The Last Air Bender' because i assume they wanted to distance themselves from that other Avatar that did well but was highly uninspired, overrated and just a little plagiarised) And i had decided to myself that i wans't going to see it because i knew i'd keep dispising the actors for not being as the Source material said, sure, i could forgive them being taller or shorter or speaking differently than the Anime, but changing race? Nah, no way. Luckily they came to their senses and fixed that storm before it hit shore.
So i propose, in all fairness, isn't it about the story and it's context rather than what we deem 'insensitive' Look at Shindlers List, if it had just been turned down because everyone in it was unpolitically non-ethnic, it would have been a blow to movie culture as a whole, it's the story that matters, staying true to the original may not be highly reguarded, but hell, i like to think that 'I Am Legened' would have rocked my fuzzy soxs off if it had stayed true to the book, the ending being deamed 'too confronting' for public viewing, Seriously, if you've seen the movie and not read the book, i encourage you to go do so, it's a very short book and i can promise that after you read it you won't be able to say that the movie was a good adaptation.
I just want to live in a word where anyone can make a joke about anyone else and everyone laughs, but that's just me, i don't think humour should be limited by what's 'acceptable' as judged by everyone that doesn't care about comedy or it's various stylings.
Seriously people, can't we live in an age where we don't have to put disclaimers on everything that is made with other races in it to state that "We're a multicultural team and as a multicultural team we hope that you understand that we're a multicultural team and we get our multiculturalism from our multicultural team and can you tell how much multiculturalism is in this multicultural production but how many multicultural times we use the word multicultural as a multicultural flame shield so your multicultural asses can't complain that we're killing multiculturally so that you can't accuse us of not being multicultural because we are so are multicultural!"
C'mon, though i did laugh to myself about the disclaimer at the start of Assassins Creed 1&2. Seriously, i was pissed that they weren't going to have someone of middle eastern apperance playing the Prince of Persia, partly because i can't stand Jake whats-his-name but mostly because it wasn't true to the original text. I was equally upset when i heard that the had an all caucasian line up for Avatar: The Last Air Bender. (Creatively called 'The Last Air Bender' because i assume they wanted to distance themselves from that other Avatar that did well but was highly uninspired, overrated and just a little plagiarised) And i had decided to myself that i wans't going to see it because i knew i'd keep dispising the actors for not being as the Source material said, sure, i could forgive them being taller or shorter or speaking differently than the Anime, but changing race? Nah, no way. Luckily they came to their senses and fixed that storm before it hit shore.
So i propose, in all fairness, isn't it about the story and it's context rather than what we deem 'insensitive' Look at Shindlers List, if it had just been turned down because everyone in it was unpolitically non-ethnic, it would have been a blow to movie culture as a whole, it's the story that matters, staying true to the original may not be highly reguarded, but hell, i like to think that 'I Am Legened' would have rocked my fuzzy soxs off if it had stayed true to the book, the ending being deamed 'too confronting' for public viewing, Seriously, if you've seen the movie and not read the book, i encourage you to go do so, it's a very short book and i can promise that after you read it you won't be able to say that the movie was a good adaptation.
I just want to live in a word where anyone can make a joke about anyone else and everyone laughs, but that's just me, i don't think humour should be limited by what's 'acceptable' as judged by everyone that doesn't care about comedy or it's various stylings.
