Maybe women and blacks should write their own stories and put themselves at center stage. Why can’t they do that? Shoving themselves into existing stories just highlights the fact that they (apparently) don’t have any original stories to tell for themselves.
Wellll,when they’re morons to start with.............
Agreed. Let's hear some original stories.
Yes, leave the classics alone, for gosh sakes.
When Merv Griffin wasn’t properly warned in advance by his staff when he interviewed a cast member of The Wiz (the all black remake of the Wizard of Oz) he was off guard and said “What? But, no. No, you can’t take a great classic and ruin it like that. That’s sacrilege. Are you serious?” He was told it was already in the plan of the studio.
On 80 Days? First of all “No.”
Jules Verne actually used a lot of ethnic and nationality traits widely held as true at the time. Accept it was a different time.
Two of my all time childhood favorites The Time Machine and Journey to the Center of the Earth were totally ruined as remakes. A shame.
Jim West was not black!!!
Only good point on this thread. It’s always funny to watch people get all upset at recasting in movies; just because a book or a movie had a white guy originally doesn’t mean it *has* to in a remake, I find it kind of interesting and not at all annoying.
*BUT* I’d rather see something original. A reboot just for the sake of being ‘woke’ sucks, casting a black person or a woman where there was originally a white man shouldn’t be an issue to anyone other than a raging racist *if* the color or gender didn’t really matter, but it’s just dumb when it does. Someone was all butthurt that a character in Dune was portrayed as a black woman, but it made no difference to the plot; but I think changing it when it *does* matter is idiotic.
They’d have to have an original thought or two.
I have wondered about this myself, many times.