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The Last Airbender
This upcoming movie release will suck huge. Caucasian heroes + Middle Eastern Villains = Epic Fail.
Oh well...
I guess that gives us a year until the franchise dies.
This Washington Post article should have killed production.
As if the MANAA blog and the East West Player Letter was not enough.
But, then again,
I could have sworn that Jackon Rathbone's comment would have stopped production...
"I think it's one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan," Rathbone told MTV.com, presumably just before his publicist sat him down for a chat about political correctness. "It's one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit."
Washington Post replies,
"But the only thing some fans will suspend are their plans to see the movie when it opens in summer 2010"
HAHA!
more articles and blogs here.
Update:
Protesters from the New York Casting Call in February
reported that the casting director are casting around the race of the lead roles chosen,
so this is how the tribes will break down:
Water Tribe = White People
Fire Nation = Middle Eastern People
Earth Nation = "Asian" People
Air Nation = White People
Oh well...
I guess that gives us a year until the franchise dies.
This Washington Post article should have killed production.
As if the MANAA blog and the East West Player Letter was not enough.
But, then again,
I could have sworn that Jackon Rathbone's comment would have stopped production...
"I think it's one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan," Rathbone told MTV.com, presumably just before his publicist sat him down for a chat about political correctness. "It's one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit."
Washington Post replies,
"But the only thing some fans will suspend are their plans to see the movie when it opens in summer 2010"
HAHA!
more articles and blogs here.
Update:
Protesters from the New York Casting Call in February
reported that the casting director are casting around the race of the lead roles chosen,
so this is how the tribes will break down:
Water Tribe = White People
Fire Nation = Middle Eastern People
Earth Nation = "Asian" People
Air Nation = White People
Tags: airbender, last, post, the, washington
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Hassan Khan on -
Avatarspirit is the biggest Avatar fandom website so yes it does
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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on -
Yeah, those ten thousand members represent the millions of Avatar fans across the globe... yup...
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Permalink Reply by rokrok on -
@ Hassan Khan
o...k...
Let's just assume that no one on that site has multiple accounts and it is 10,000 fans.
We still have more than 1 year before the movie is released.
That is plenty of time before their parents come to their senses and tells them not to watch the movie.
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Permalink Reply by rokrok on
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Its not offensive to anyone?
I am offended. I guess that makes me a nobody.
As a parent,
we have to worry about...
"...recasting Asian actors as white actors is institutionalized discrimination that affect children who perceive white as the norm, even in a world that is Asian-based"
"...this was a chance for actors from the Asian community to be represented, but that chance was taken away..."
"The "Airbender" casting sends a message to the public that white actors are more qualified and entitled than Asian actors to play Asian characters"
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Permalink Reply by TheLilBeast on -
Ummmn....who fucking gives a crap if thier not asains. I've been saying this millions of times but it really doesn't matter. In the show they don't even explian if the characters are asian or not. I don't remember the creators of the show saying "by the way there asain..BYE!!!!". Yeah..sure...they use an anime type style of animation but fucking made by Americans. Doesn't mean there asain.
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Permalink Reply by rokrok on
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If this visual essay does not convince you, then nothing will.
In the commentary, one of the creators states that Katara was designed based on "authentic Inuit" characteristics.
And I don't remember the creators of the show saying, "by the way they're white.. BYE!!!"
oh no, not the "made by Americans" argument again.
Yes, the franchise was fucking made by Americans. Doesn't mean they're white.
Out of the 14 million+ Asian-Americans and 4 million+ Native Americans, they couldn't find any talent?
Now that's some ol' bullshit.
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Permalink Reply by TheLilBeast on
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dude...That's the shit I'm trying to get across you ignorant dumb fuck. ...ok...maybe i shouldn't called you that but whatever. The creators didn't even fully explian if they're asains, white, black or whatever the fuck.
ohhhh yeah "In the commentary, one of the creators states that Katara was designed based on "authentic Inuit" characteristics!!!" YAY Like that really explians shit. :P
So who really cares?
And yes the made by Americans agruement. I always have to use this because there's no way to get out of it or going against it in anyway. If it's made by americans..it's made by americans. Yes..they use anime...doesn't mean there suppose to be asian and not white or the other way around. The visal essay was some racist bullcrap. Like I said, they used anime. It's a supposed to look like that.
...or maybe you just hate white people...
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Permalink Reply by rokrok on
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I guess being Asian,
when I see characters in Asian attire, fighting with Asian martial arts with Asian architecture in the background, in a story influenced by Asian mythology, folklore, and philosophy, I automatically assume the characters are Asian. From my perspective, the universe didn't include 1 anglo-saxon character.
The visual essay was some racist bullcrap?
The creators flat out say that Katara is Inuit and that doesn't really explain shit?
Ok this is where I decide to stop arguing with you.
And
I don't hate any race.
I hate the people in power making these decisions.
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Permalink Reply by TheLilBeast on
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I guess being Asian,
when I see characters in Asian attire, fighting with Asian martial arts with Asian architecture in the background, in a story influenced by Asian mythology, folklore, and philosophy, I automatically assume the characters are Asian. From my perspective, the universe didn't include 1 anglo-saxon character.
ok, that I understand. But the thing is there not actally saying that they are asians and they should be. I mean the creators didn't make one compliant when M. night annouced the cast. Isn't that telling you something? I don't know but all I'm saying is sure they use all those things to come up with the series and the it's background but if they don't really say there actally asian then there probably not. You don't have to be asian to be fighting with asian martial arts. It's like me with The Boondocks. They act black abd speak black(or at least hood like blacks) so I automatically say there black. Why? Because they actally do explian there black and they draw them like there black. Here in Avatar, they do have some kind of asain overtone but they don't go and explian that they are actally asain.
The visual essay was some racist bullcrap?
The creators flat out say that Katara is Inuit and that doesn't really explain shit?
Ok this is where I decide to stop arguing with you.
Sigh...you are seriously missing the point!! Yeah, the creators explian one thing...about one character...and that's it!!! They don't explian the characters as a whole they only explian one character..just one and that's doesn't really explian much. This is where I want to stop arguing with you. and visul essay was some racist bullcrap. Why? because it's complete going out it's way saying "There asain! asain I tell you!!! White people shouldn't be in this! white people and any other race!! Asain 4 life!!!"
And
I don't hate any race.
I hate the people in power making these decisions.
well that's life buddy...get over it...
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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on
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"well that's life buddy...get over it..."
I'm going to build a time machine and go tell Harriet Tubman, Ralph Abernathy, Victoria Gray Adams, Ella Baker, Stokely Carmichael, Shirley Chisholm, Vernon Dahmer, Annie Devine, Medgar Evers, James Farmer, James Forman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Dorothy Height, T. R. M. Howard, Jesse Jackson, Clyde Kennard, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, Viola Liuzzo, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Bob Moses, Rosa Parks, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Modjeska Monteith Simkins, Fred Shuttlesworth, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, The Little Rock Nine, John Newton, James Somersett, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Nelson Mandella, and the countless others, that hey... that's just life.... get over it...
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Permalink Reply by TheLilBeast on
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........oh god.........lol.....that had nothing to do with what I was talking about.........my god lol... Just fuck it..
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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on
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Yeah, when it's your race being ignored, abused, or persecuted, you can't wait to be all over that shit.
But when it's somebody else's... hey, that's life, get over it.
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