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Matt Damon Defends Role in 'Great Wall' Against Charge of 'Whitewashing'
Yahoo News ^ | December 6, 2016

Posted on 12/06/2016 9:08:15 PM PST by nickcarraway

Hollywood actor Matt Damon on Tuesday defended his starring role in upcoming Hollywood film "The Great Wall", saying that accusations of "whitewashing", or the use Caucasian stars over actors of other ethnicities, were unfounded.

“Zhang Yimou called me and asked me to be in his movie," Damon said in Beijing, referring to the film's director who joined him on a panel.

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"When I think of 'whitewashing' I think Chuck Connors playing Geronimo, that’s whitewashing and that’s unacceptable," he said, referring to a Caucasian actor who played the Native American chief Geronimo in a 1962 Western.

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So Chuck Connors is bad, but he is good?
1 posted on 12/06/2016 9:08:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Wasn’t Damon supposed to leave the country?


2 posted on 12/06/2016 9:09:37 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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Chuck would slap that fool’s mouth around to the back of his head.


3 posted on 12/06/2016 9:12:54 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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Matt Damon can play whoever he likes and accept as big a salary from any source. He will receive no criticism from the Hollywood elite as longer as he continues to make his assigned contributions to the Democratic Party ,Planned Parenthood, PETA and other Leftist causes.


4 posted on 12/06/2016 9:23:30 PM PST by allendale
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Based on the description of the “Great Wall”....it’s a highly graphic monster movie....a Chinese-version of Godzilla, and it has Matt Damon as the monster-fighter. Normally, it would appeal to the under-21 crowd only (without Damon). So it’ll collect an extra hundred million in the US because of Damon.

You should expect a dozen-odd movies like this over the next five years....as Chinese film producers try to make epic films with hired US actors in white-washed roles.


5 posted on 12/06/2016 9:28:49 PM PST by pepsionice
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6 posted on 12/06/2016 9:29:27 PM PST by mykroar (Congratulations President-Elect Trump)
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To: nickcarraway

Leftist logic:

It isn’t Whitewashing if a liberal actor does it. It is if World War II veteran does it.


7 posted on 12/06/2016 9:29:49 PM PST by PAR35
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"Matt Damon can play whoever he likes and accept as big a salary from any source."

I thought his most memorable role was in Team America: World Police (2004)
8 posted on 12/06/2016 9:32:08 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Just looked at Conners in Wikipedia - drafted by a pro football team (Bears), and played major league baseball (Cubs and Dodgers) and pro basketball (Celtics).


9 posted on 12/06/2016 9:33:06 PM PST by PAR35
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Matt Damon couldn’t carry Chuck Connor’s jock. Damon wouldn’t last five seconds if he said that to his face.


10 posted on 12/06/2016 9:36:04 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast ("Now it's up to the American people to deliver justice")
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Matt Damon wasn’t even a twinkle in his daddy’s eye in 1962.

He knows nothing about it.


11 posted on 12/06/2016 9:45:08 PM PST by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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A Chinese actor or an African actor can play Lincoln and I wouldn’t call it “yellow washing” or “black washing”. I could keep an open mind without dismissing it from the start because of race. A good actor could probably transcend the racial aspect.


12 posted on 12/06/2016 9:53:40 PM PST by Perchant
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When will the same critics decry the “Blackfacing” of Santa?


13 posted on 12/06/2016 9:55:49 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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So using Damon’s lingo, the cast of Hamilton would be mega “blackwashing”, and therefore mega unacceptable.

The media propaganda machine is going to go into overdrive to brainwash Americans so that we just accept whatever they have planned for us.


14 posted on 12/06/2016 9:56:05 PM PST by greeneyes
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I’ve enjoyed some of his movies. Rounders was really good.


15 posted on 12/06/2016 10:04:45 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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16 posted on 12/06/2016 10:07:10 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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I’ve enjoyed some of his movies. Rounders was really good.


I love the Bourne series. But that’s a movie, it’s his Job. Beyond that, Matt Damon is an idiot.


17 posted on 12/06/2016 10:12:33 PM PST by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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Take the music out of the Bourne movies and they are garbage.


18 posted on 12/06/2016 10:27:39 PM PST by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
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To: PAR35

Chuck Connors was also the first nba player to smash a backboard in the league... you can win a lot of money with that bet as most people bet shack, dr j or dominique wilkins.


19 posted on 12/06/2016 10:28:20 PM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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"When I think of 'whitewashing' I think Chuck Connors playing Geronimo, that’s whitewashing and that’s unacceptable," he said

I assume, then, that Damon will be playing a white character? In China, during the time of the Mongol invasions? No? OK, then he's no different from Chuck Connors and has no business calling that unacceptable.
20 posted on 12/06/2016 10:43:23 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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