Penis Report This Comment Date: October 17, 2022 12:35AM
I get it, but this isn't the way to express it......
Peter Puller Report This Comment Date: October 17, 2022 07:04AM
There's a piece missing from the equasion: Whenever a character becomes someone
of color not from the source material to drive the purists and right-wingers
batty, THIS IS ALWAYS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER. Not a real-life person. Applying
the 'woke' rant to the biography of a real person doesn't work (
Hamilton
aside).
The next Ghostbusters will have women, the next Cinderella will be black, the
next Captain America will also be black, but at no point will Thomas Edison be
played by a Japanese actor and Greta Thunburg's life story's actress will be a
blue-eyed light-skinned young woman with a Swedish accent -- and will not be
played by a Jamaican.
But to play devil's advocate for a few seconds: What's funny to me is when an
actor is cast for a part which is within the correct demographic, but sensitive
people will still flip out because the actor is not the EXACT criteria. By that
I mean: Thandiwe Newton is light-skinned black woman and appeared in
God's
Country, and the character she was playing was darker, so people felt that
darker-skinned actors were overlooked for her part. I recall some story about a
black actor playing Bob Marley having to darken his skin to correctly match
Marley's fleshtone, then being accused of "playing blackface" as
though he was a white guy in vaudeville. Lin-Manuel Miranda cast plenty of
Hispanic actors for
In The Heights, and received grief that there weren't
enough leading actors who were
Afro-Latinx like the people in the
neighborhood the play takes place in.
pulse Report This Comment Date: October 17, 2022 10:16AM
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There's a
piece missing from the equasion: Whenever a character becomes someone of color
not from the source material to drive the purists and right-wingers batty, THIS
IS ALWAYS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER. Not a real-life person.
Yeah. You'd never find somebody like John Wayne playing Genghis Khan.
Peter Puller Report This Comment Date: October 17, 2022 05:27PM
pulse: Or Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson.
I should have been clearer about one point because you went in a different
direction... There's a difference between an actor of one ethnicity wearing
makeup to play an character of another ethnicity (which is nowadays frowned
upon, but speaking of John Wayne few and far between were Native Americans in
the western movies actually played by Native Americans back in the day),
including my stated caviat of people in the right grouping yet
adjacent
to a real person's appearance, it seems
-and- today, nowadays, the
trend of retelling a story but altering the characters' embodiments, such as
Jaden Smith playing Daniel-san in The Karate Kid, which is what the post was
depicting but erroniously about a nonfictional character.
woberto Report This Comment Date: October 18, 2022 10:37AM
Where do you find these idiots pulse?
pulse Report This Comment Date: October 18, 2022 11:58AM
The bottom of very dark barrels.