Poll: Whitewashing, yay!!!

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Thaluikhain

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VanQ said:
Seriously, who cares?
If a black/asian/other person plays a character that was originally white it's totally okay.
If a white person even dares to play a character that was originally any other race it's racist and whitewashing and bigotry and patriarchy and you get the idea.

Fuck that double standard.
But the double standard that half of every movie made must be about a white male lead, that's perfectly fine?
 

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I don't know. This really pissed me off in Last Airbender. Not so much here. Then again, Airbender was a trainwreck from start to finish and the actors were kinda shit. This doesn't bother me that much because...when you think about it it's not really adapting the original story, it's based off of it. If it was adapting it, I'd be pissed off. As such it's just taking ideas from a Japanese story and using it to make an American story. As such I'm not even sure this qualifies as whitewashing.

P.S.: Also it kinda sounds like this is as close as we're ever getting to a Dark Souls movie. And an asskicking female main character? I think I might give this movie a shot.
 

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I just dislike changing a character's race just because it's a change from the source material.

If a character is Asian in the original work? Keep them Asian in the adaption. Same goes for if they were White, Black, Hispanic whatever.
 

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I?d only really care if their race was an important part of their character.
So if the plot had to do with their race it's okay for them to be POC, but otherwise they'll have to be white because white is default?

THIS is why whitewashing sucks balls. It establishes one ethnicity as 'default' and everything else as deviation from the norm.
What about Heimdall(sp?) from The Avengers being made black? Race didn't matter so they changed it. Or is it only bad if they make it white, but it's fine if they change someone to a minority? To me changing race is change race. It doesn't matter what is originally was or what it's changed to.
 

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A Swedish movie is doing the other way around. Casting a brown boy for a role that was originally played by an aryan gentleman. (Jönssonligan)
 

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Like, if a character was changed for a way superior actor who just has it fucking down, then yeah, the performance will probably overlook the white washing.

But if you Shyamalan/Avatar it, I will boomerang you in the face.

Or something like that.
 

Thaluikhain

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TehCookie said:
Or is it only bad if they make it white, but it's fine if they change someone to a minority? To me changing race is change race. It doesn't matter what is originally was or what it's changed to.
The problem is that there is an overabundance of white roles already, and also of roles whitewashed into being white. Doing it the other way around somewhat balances this, but not much.
 

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and would you like to explain to the shareholders how come your 150 million dollar budget movie without a huge name actor at the front to draw audiences has flopped? that said it probably will anyway but still it would loose less money with tom cruise than using a relatively unknown actor in the lead
If I had to have a cast full of famous white people, then I wouldn't choose to adapt a novel that consists almost entirely of Japanese characters.
 

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If I had to have a cast full of famous white people, then I wouldn't choose to adapt a novel that consists almost entirely of Japanese characters.
Pretty much this. There are plenty of stories that exist, plenty of novels that could be made into a movie. It's not like it wouldn't be impossible to just pick a story with an all white cast.
 

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If anything, I'd be more mad at the upcoming adaptation of the 47 Ronin; a tale whose source material originally had all-Japanese characters but this adaptation took the liberty of putting Keanu Reeve as the lead role.
It's as if Hollywood is so frightened that a movie set in a foreign country wouldn't sell if there wasn't a caucasian person in it. That or someone was really eager to cast Keanu Reeves as a samurai.
Yeah, it's ridiculous. Now we only have six film versions of it with all-Japanese casts.
 

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I'm not offended by the changing of the race, just offended by another bland generic looking sci-fi movie. This one looks like a real snoozefest.