Posted on 09/06/2017 1:32:58 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Billy Magnussen, a white actor, has been cast to play a prince in Disney’s upcoming “Aladdin” live action remake but many social media users criticized the move, accusing the studio giant of "whitewashing" the film's plot.
Magnussen, who played a prince in Disney’s “Into the Woods,” was slated to play Prince Anders, who was not a character in the 1992 animated version. The Telegraph reported that Magnussen’s character would be Aladdin’s rival to winning over Princess Jasmine’s heart.
Social media critics slammed the casting decision Tuesday and accused Disney of “whitewashing” the plot of the film.
One social media user tweeted: “Should #actor Billy Magnussen step down as ‘Prince Anders’ the newly created white character in #Aladdin?”
“Why did they add a white prince to #Aladdin? This is going to be a disaster,” another Twitter user wrote.
The film, which was set to be directed by Madonna’s former husband, Guy Ritchie, does not have a release date yet.
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Exactly. Same thing happened in Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale series. A few of the white characters are played by black actors.
Excellent!
I honestly don't remember if the guy playing Aladin was white are not. But I do remember the genie was blue.
Ever see Mickey Rooney’s portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi—the Chinese upstairs neighbor—in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
It was so incredibly over-the-top that he apologized years later for any offense caused.
I thought it was a riot, but I’m that way.
Example of why democrats can never run a white hetero male for national office again, no matter how qualified or nuanced.
Baraq Hussein Ubama already rebranded it as “the People’s House” (as in People’s Republic Of China)
Today’s liberals are as race obsessed — or more race obsessed — than were the NAZIs of the 1930s. That’s not hyperbole. Watch old documentaries and today’s news. Who talks/talked more about race? Todays liberals or 1930s German NAZIs? About equal. And if there is a winner, it’s in America today.
How many black nationalists were in Obama’s background and administration?
How many black nationalists are there on college campuses running student organizations or preaching in the classrooms?
How many brown nationalists (la raza, mecha) are there on college campuses running student organizations or preaching in the classrooms?
Ethnic nationalism is dumb. And the media is decidedly anti-white these days. Point it all out at every turn. Point out the horrors of NAZI-ism AND Communism.
Most of the white liberal snowflakes live in the urban areas.
They will be hardest hit first if things get severely anti-white.
>>But I do remember the genie was blue.
Must be a Hillary voter.
Tell me, how did he speak holding his breath that long?
... and Captain Marvel is a *dude*!!!
if a little black girl can play Annie, and a grown black man can play Hamilton, why can’t a Caucasian play Aladdin?
99% of what Leftists say, do or think is based on race (i.e., it’s racist). The other 1% is merely offensive, stupid or irrelevant.
Somehow I think Harold Gray’s anti-FDR, anti-New Deal politics have been stripped from all of the recent screen adaptations of Little Orphan Annie.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-politics-of-annie
http://time.com/3640455/annie-new-deal-politics/
At least Time acknowledges that the work has been bastardized. And of course they brand him on the “Far Right”. Is Fascist and Communist loving FDR ever called “Far Left” in their pages? Ptooey.
Hey look, another Disney movie I won’t let my kids watch.
Ricardo Montalban also played the World’s Worst Sikh on Star Trek (he was clean shaven)
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