Posted on 12/30/2019 3:19:27 PM PST by EdnaMode
There are those who think Hallmark is "fascist propaganda," and there are others who think director Greta Gerwig's latest take on "Little Women" is "too white."
"It’s time that classics that are constantly remade to better incorporate diversity,” Teen Vogue contributor Natalie de Vera Obedos writes in her new piece, "'Little Women,' Laurie, and the Argument for Racebent Casting."
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Obedos takes issue with the casting of four white actresses as the well-known sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy, played by Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, and Florence Pugh. But Obedos's main quarrel is with the male lead, Theodore “Laurie” Laurence, who is portrayed by white actor Timothée Chalamet. The casting of Chalamet, Obedoes argues, is a lost opportunity to display Laurie's true identity.
While many are excited to see Timothée bring this character to life, his iteration and many of the previous films have failed to properly contextualize Laurie during this time period. In the original novel, Laurie is described as a young man with “Curly black hair, brown skin,” and “big black eyes” (Alcott 42) — he is canonically half-Italian. It is through Laurie that Little Women offered Greta a very unique opportunity that she could have taken: Laurie could have easily been played by someone non-white. Obedos shares a few excerpts from Alcott's original novel to explain that Laurie is actually half Italian, and by casting a white actor the film did not have a chance to explore the challenges and prejudices he faced at the time.
"The added diversity of casting the character with someone non-white would have added a richness and context that has been lost on the character by contemporary audiences," Obedos explains.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Rumour claims that Obedos has a big problem with Melville’s “Moby Dick.”
Its a movie full of white characters from the same family.
Its racist to change the characters to pander to modern day race baiters.
They can feel free to fund and produce whatever visual trainwreck disaster they want to.
The director is a woke feminist who is promising her upcoming Barbie movie will be feminist and fierce, so sit back and enjoy her taking slings from her allies.
The NFL is too black.
The BET channel is too black.
Every single black awards show is too black.
Historically black colleges and universities are too black.
Black churches are too black.
Go to your safe spaces, Snowflakes, and leave the rest of us alone.
I remember her not being fond of the social niceties, and being a tomboy, but that's about as far as it went. I think this is just another Feminist Rant in Period Clothes.
And historical black colleges are too black!
Not steam punk enough.
So should they have cast an Italian instead of a white guy?
Thinking is hard for lefties. It’s so much easier when all you need to do is look for colors and get triggered if there is too much of one of them in particular.
Honestly an all black version would have to be called “Lil’ B!tches” where some of the women would be baby mommas, all talking to each other on cell phones, saying “oh no he did-ent!” Wait till you see my all white version of Roots, with the Irish being rounded up by evil black whiskey distributors, all promising booze, potatoes and railroad jobs! With Kunta O’Kintee! And to keep it honest, I will plagiarize from Alex Haley!
Hay, come on; two of the ‘sisters’ should be Black, one Asian.
They should sit down every night to a dinner of tacos and hominy, with kimchi on he side.
With Kunta O’Kintee!
It’s a wonderful film.
Why weren’t trannies hired for the roles?!
I want to see a remake of Shaka Zulu with an all Asian cast!
Hey now, Grambling once had a white woman quarterback!
Or the movie Zulu with the races reversed. A contingent of black British troops defend Roarke’s Drift against thousands of spear throwing Boers.
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