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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
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Permalink Reply by rokrok on -
@LilBeast
So you are saying that,
If they made an animated series based on African martical arts, mythology and folklore,
And the creators did not flat out say that the characters are African, but they wear traditional African attire, and fought in Dambe, Evala and Nguni
you wouldn't mind if the live action film producers changed the race of the heroes to caucasian and kept the villains African?
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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on -
Beast, do everyone a favor... go away again...
The pictures shown by Rokrok clearly illustrate the racial features and origins of just about every character on the show.
I've never even seen Avatar, but going off these screenshots I could easily conclude where each character is from racially and geographically.
If the obvious visual allusions and numerous cultural references aren't a dead enough giveaway, then do me another favor and remove your testicles, because I don't want you contaminating the world with your massive amounts of stupidity.
What the fuck more do you want? Do you want each character to bring up what race they belong to in casual conversation?
"Hi, I'm Aang, and I'm Tibetan! Try these eggrolls, Katara!"
"These eggrolls are delicious, did I mention I'm an Inuit?"
Not everyone is you, Beast. Some of us don't feel the need to remind everybody what race we belong to every five minutes.
"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"
Yeah, it does. It explains that Katara is an Inuit, you fucking retard.
Pull your head out of your ass and realize that there's more than two races in this world.
You keep going back to the show being made by Americans, as if that means anything.
Americans can't make a show where the main characters are Asians, Inuits, or any other race for that matter?
How utterly ridiculous.
I'd love to see you act so blasé and apathetic when they cast an iconic black character with a white actor.
Speaking of which, I heard they're going to remake Roots, starring Jimmy Fallon as Kunta Kinte.
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Permalink Reply by TheLilBeast on -
*sigh* Look man, I'm not trying to be the mean guy or say this race should be this or this race should that!!!!
If I came off that way then my bad. I'm just fed up with this bullcrap and may have came off the wrong way. I just don't remember the creators saying that the characters are any race at all. Maybe I'm just looking at it that way because I don't know all the much. And the whole "made americans thing" sorry for that too.
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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on
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Why do you even talk, when you clearly have nothing to say?
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Permalink Reply by TheLilBeast on
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*sigh*
Forget it. I'm out. Your gonna keep insulting so I'll stop.
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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on
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Your proud ignorance and apathetic "coolness" are far more insulting than anything I could come up with...
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Permalink Reply by rokrok on
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"you ignorant dumb fuck."
-LilBeast
You can dish it out but you can't take it.
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Permalink Reply by corey vire on -
Would white people be upset if they replaced Daniel Rattcliff with that kid fron The Bernie Mac Show? People are making alot of assumptions. None of us were at the casting calls. So we just don't know what wen't into it. I doubt they were hand rubbing and mwhahahaing. "We will not cast any asians in the lead." You were stretching with that roots reference. How about replacing Will Smith and Martin Lawrance in bad boys with Ashton Kutcher and Sean William Scott to see how many people that pisses off. All I know is this only comes up during live action anime and martial arts topics.
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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on
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No, instead of rubbing their hands together and cackling, producers say things like "I think it would be more economically viable, and appeal to a wider audience, to cast the lead with a white actor."
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Permalink Reply by corey vire on
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sigh... Will Smith, Martin Lawrance, Denzel Washington. It took time to get these guys where they are. Would you risk 100,000,000 on an unknown variable? Before you say Hary Potter, they couldve put me in that and made money.I'm guessing if it were a tv show they may have taken the risk. you can cancle a tv show before it bleeds out. You do have to consider the audience though. That's not to say an asian couldn't carry the lead.
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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on
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Dude, what's your point? How are Asian actors supposed to work their way up a ladder like Denzel or Will did, if no one is willing to cast them in anything?
Hollywood has systematically pushed Asians in to the background for nearly its entire history.
How would you like it if instead of taking a risk on a little film called Glory, Hollywood had decided to make another safe romantic comedy starring Steve Guttenberg?
Honestly I'm shocked that for a person who belongs to a race that's been held down by the system for as long as yours has, you seem to have no sympathy for another race who just wants an equal shake at things too.
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Permalink Reply by corey vire on
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The same way black actors and actresses did. Put your time . Find someone to take a risk. Have one their diredtors or producers cast them. Would we even have Denzell without Spike Lee? Wil Smith without Quincy Jones producing fresh Prince. Don't give they need a chance. If you wondering if I'm being a dick about this your right.
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