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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 Terminator Series T-800 on -
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Permalink Reply by rokrok on -
Stephan,
I am not trying to change anyone's opinion.
You are right. Its nothing new. This Avatar casting controvery started in December 2008 and this argument has been going on for decades.
I have to keep repeating myself because people refuse to read what I wrote the first time or read all these articles and blogs on the contoversy.
Maybe if you took some time and did your homework, you wouldnt' have started this useless argument and try and convince me that the way I feel doesn't matter.
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Permalink Reply by Universal Guardian on -
I guess it's all about being a minority.
If you're Caucasian, it's "being angry about something", because every hero is essentially Caucasian. So it's trivial for you.
If you're a minority, like myself(African-American), it's insulting, because no reason is offered for why other races can't have their prominent cinematic heroes. This isn't the 1930s, this is supposely the new millennium, and we are getting the same old "there can only be White heroes" spiel.
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Permalink Reply by corey vire on -
You should re-phrase that to," Only hollywood heros can be white." Last I checked not to many white heros in cinema outside of Hollywood. If asians want Hollywood to change then force it with their dollars. Force it inside their communities with all asian production companies. How many actors from Robert Townsend and Spike Lee movies went mainstream after being featured in those movies? What is the ratio of asian actors in Hollywood? How many out of 1000 are there?
Black actors still play drug dealers and pimps but we also carry lead roles and strong supporting roles. None of the major studios owes it to any of us to risk their money on something that may not cross into the mainstream. That's the reason. It's not fair but noone said it's supposed to be.
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Permalink Reply by Universal Guardian on
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Stop being an apologist.
As long as you make excuses for this drivel, this is the result.
But I agree about voting with your wallet, that's the only way to stop the stupidity that is this.
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Permalink Reply by Lab Rat on -
I think voting with your wallet is only half of it. Ethnic movie makers have also got to get out there and pimp the hell out of their movies. Nobody is going to watch a movie if they don’t know about it. I think that while people are protesting the casting of this movie, they should also be promoting what’s good in Asian American cinema. Show people what they’re missing out on by overlooking one group of actors to take the safe option.
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Permalink Reply by Universal Guardian on
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True.
Except the problem is, I don't see this as taking the "safe option". IMO, taking the "safe option" would be changing the characters officially to Caucasian, i.e. essentially creating new characters.
This is something way more sinister and despicable, whitewashing these obviously Asian/Native American characters. Also, in this new millennium, we are very aware of other races out there...the time of the stock white characters should be over and done.
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Permalink Reply by Jay Perry on -
who's the producer?
I don't want to jump on the whole"fox sucks"bandwagon,but their last anime movie didn't work out so well.
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Permalink Reply by Iron Man on -
I looked at wikipedia and the studios are:
Nickelodeon Movies
Kennedy/Marshall
Blinding Edge Pictures
While Paramount is distributing it.
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Permalink Reply by Colin Vaughan on -
WHAT THE FUCK is M. Night Shyamalan making this shit for? The TV show sucked. Shyamalan, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!!!!!!!
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