Superb job!
Posted on 03/23/2014 3:51:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Edited on 03/23/2014 5:50:57 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
As for Mara's ethnicity? She's not Native American. Folks are passing around an online petition that asks Warner Bros. to "stop casting white actors to play people of color."
2. If you're particularly ticked off when a white character is played by a person of color, then you're probably not pleased that Michael B. Jordan (Friday Night Lights, The Wire, Fruitvale Station), who is black, was cast as the Human Torch in Fantastic Four. Human Torch is a superhero who, as his name hints, can engulf his body in flames, control nearby fires and fly. When he's not on fire (though he usually is), the comics show that he's a blonde, white guy named Johnny Storm. (There was an android Human Torch once. To the extent that androids have ethnic identities, the android's was probably Anglo-Saxon.) If casting a black actor to play a white superhero irks you, this probably will, too.
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what???
Superb job!
Just don't let them have a child and do a Cheerios commercial. That'll really set them off.
Interesting enough, they recently did a Peter Pan prequel on the Sci-Fi channel that purposely "reimagined" it as a more sci-fi themed concept (all the human inhabitants of Neverland are people that were brought to the planet from different time periods in earth's history via an orb that's a time vortex... the pirates are from the 1600s, Peter is from 19th century London etc.) That version radically departed from the "traditional" Peter Pan origin story on purpose, and even it was far more faithful with the casting... Q'orianka Kilcher was Tiger Lily, and in a huge casting coup, they managed to get Bob Hoskins back to reprise his role as Smee, 20 years after he had played the role in Hook).
The alternative origin story didn't really work well, but it did resolve some plotholes that arise in the traditional origin story (if nobody ages in Neverland, why did Peter Pan continue to age when he was brought there as an infant, then suddenly stop aging when he was 13ish?). In the new take, he's brought to Neverland when he's about 16 years old, and he knew James Hook back in London, when the latter had a very different occupation than Pirate (Hook basically stumbles on the pirate ship in this version and they make him their leader because they're so impressed by his skills, which was BS in my opinion) The ending was also a letdown, but much of it was far more interesting than anything they're presenting in the latest Peter Pan cash grab. If you're curious, check out the Neverland trailer on YouTube:
Nice!
Either way, you're wrong.
And Leonardo DiCaprio looks about as Irish as I look Italian.
Ugga wugga meatball!
story of my life...
I’d like to poke her hontas.
the boy doesn't look Italian either, go figure
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John Wayne behaving in a manner reminiscent of Jenjis Khan. A couple of my favorite miscast roles are Max von Sydow as Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told. Everyone knows that Jesus had a British accent. I also enjoyed when Batman and Bruce Wayne had to be n the same place, so Alfred would don the bat suit. Aside from the fact that Alan Napier was in his seventies, was rail thin, had a white mustache, and a British accent, he was a dead ringer for Adam West.
One of the things that makes me squirm are sob stories, such as this article.
All I can say is ....
Bravo!
Really. How much do I care what actor plays a comic book character in a movie? Apparently enough to open this thread but not much more.
Englishmen are almost invariably cast as the villains in Hollywood movies these days (and in Disney cartoons the villain will always have a snooty English accent), the English are the last race that can be vilified without fear of accusations of “RACIST!!!”.
What would Alan Rickman do for work if Hollywood cast any other race as villains? Even in “Michael Collins” they cast Liam Neeson as the “good guy” (Collins) while the “bad guy” (De Valera) was played by Rickman, because nobody could play an Irish Republican rebel leader other than a posh Englishman right?
My concern is who the South Koreans are going to cast as Nodame and Chiaki in their remake of Nodame Cantabile.
It’s a fun thread.
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