I thought Zendaya was mixed race, black father and white mother. She's all black now?
-PJ
Martin Luther King Jr. never took a single step to legally change his name from MIKE —Mike King. His dad did, however, and everyone called him that.
He also plagiarized over 1/2 of his PhD thesis, so was he a Doctor..? Hmm....
I’ll conceed he was very charismatic and I do believe what his ideas were proper.
Martin Luther King Jr. never took a single step to legally change his name from MIKE —Mike King. His dad did, however, and everyone called him that.
He also plagiarized over 1/2 of his PhD thesis, so was he a Doctor..? Hmm....
I’ll conceed he was very charismatic and I do believe what his ideas were proper.
Well, since they have a gay Spiderman, why not a guy?...........
“...need only look at the U.S. presidential campaign to see that racism has been emboldened by a candidate who thinks prejudice and xenophobia are acceptable, and even commendable.”
Nice to see the journalists in Canada are every bit as much the mentally-deficient retards that American journalists are. Oh...was I insensitive?...how about intellectually challenged developmentally-disabled, that works as well.
I don’t have a problem with it if they’re at least consistent and open up traditionally minority roles for whites.
Another Spiderman reboot? Does he run on Microsoft Windows?
I wish they would just cast an actually attractive woman for MJ this time around.
Great idea since black Johnny Storm was such a huge success
Another utterly unwatchable “I-am-a-Hollywood-Writer/Producer-and-Smarter-Then-the-Original-Creators-of-the-Character/Characters” movie.
So unless she dyes her hair, no way.
Maybe some kid that was stung by a wasp and has the ability to make houses from mud. And his girlfriend has to deal with his dirty pad.
They do have a black latino spiderman now if they were really brave they would use him
Which is puzzling, frankly. Not that this kind of ignorance still exists – you need only look at the U.S. presidential campaign to see that racism has been emboldened by a candidate who thinks prejudice and xenophobia are acceptable, and even commendable.
/sigh
No one cared that Raquel Welch was Hispanic, since she presented herself as a person rather than as a category/label. It's the same with this "Zendaya", whom I had never heard of. If she'll wear a red wig, she's close enough and cute enough that I'm okay with the actress. But they have to keep the red hair, since that was the signature that identified Mary Jane, which makes it as essential as Aunt Mae being old (yes, I chose that on purpose).
Also, if they are going to make Mary Jane an angry black woman who had never been proud of the United States until Barack, or otherwise change her culturally from the cute girl next door in the comics, then I won't watch the movie under any circumstances.
The hair is what identifies Mary Jane. She needs it like J Jonah Jameson (or, in another context, Bill Clinton) needs a cigar.
No where daring enough. A much better version would be if this young woman self-identified as male and then played the title role.
Or could they simply be purists who are sick of watching Uber Liberal Stan Lee and others bastardize the Marvel brand?
A female Captain Marvel? Puhleeeeeze.
Why are the fanboys upset? Easy, folks. MJ is a redhead in the comics and (supposed to be) a red hot (pardon the pun) supermodel. Nick Fury? Johnny Storm? Eh, fanboys don’t care. But MJ, well, MJ is supposed to be a 90’s era Cindy Crawford with red hair.
You’d think they’d cast some girl as Betty Brant (Betty was Peter’s first girlfriend brunette, worked at the newspaper. Peter broke up with her because she blamed Spider-Man for the death of a relative.) or Gwen Stacy (blonde, who infamously died falling off a bridge when her neck snapped) or Felicia Hardy (platinum blonde criminal, basically Marvel’s version of DC’s Bat-nemesis Catwoman)
All of these girl characters aren’t supermodels, they dated Peter, have interesting stories and could be played by “any” actress without fanboy upheaval. I don’t get it.